Education & Health Programs Officer

Job Overview

The Education and Health Programme Officer is responsible for facilitating access to education and health services for children, young people, caregivers, and community partners, as well as facilitating partners and other duty bearers. He/she is responsible for facilitating the capacity building of RFH and other duty bearers, communities, and duty bearers to effectively protect and care for their children sustainably in cooperation with local authorities and other service providers, enabling children who are at risk of losing the care of their families to grow with a healthy family environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate the formation and development of Community Health Education Task Force on organise and facilitate training on individual, community health, and education levels.
• Lead the budgeting for FS programme health and education components.
• Support community task force on health programme and community levels through lead budgeting leading to FS abandonment to family and community levels through the use of appropriate participatory tools.
• Facilitate the identification of opportunities to meet the needs of each local resource and community.
• Support the development of individual family development plans and community development plans with a focus on education and health.
• Facilitate the development of emergency preparedness plans related to education and health.
• Conduct regular monitoring visits to schools, tertiary, and vocational institutions to assess learner performance, learning environments, and class progress; analyse educational quality and access.
• In collaboration with community partners, identify eligible young people for vocational training, community partners assessments, and facilitate young enrolment into vocational training, community partners.
• Organise caregiver training in pre- and after-school adult support, facilitate adult support for caregivers.
• Promote girl-mother scholarship and women opportunities to education programme services for caregivers.
• Identify children and caregivers in need of health support and facilitate access to essential services including immunization, nutrition training, medical support, and home-based care.
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• Organise regular nutritional support assessments, nutritional training groups, and medical support groups.
• HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns.
• Monitor and evaluate programmes through home visits, data collection, and reporting.
• Prepare and submit timely, accurate, compliant, and quality progress reports.

Qualifications and Skills Needed

• Degree in nursing, Public Health, Education, and Rural Development or related social natural sciences disciplines.
• At least two years’ experience in working with education and health programmes.
• Sound understanding of child rights with safeguarding education, child health programmes, family and community development, rights-based programming, and management of CBPs.
• Good communication and reporting skills, computer literate, understanding and ability to apply community team, strong initiative values participatory methodologies with self-starter, ability to work in a team, strong team values participatory methodologies with minimum supervision.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in NGOs, OPDs, or development programs, preferably in agrifood systems.
• Excellent interpersonal, networking, and communication skills.

How to Apply

Applications that do not meet all requirements will be discarded.

• Attach 1 single file including a combined Cover Letter (describing how you meet the minimum qualifications) and your current CV only.
• Attachment size is limited to 1MB; emails with larger file sizes will be discarded.
• Application updates and confirmations of applications received are not provided.
• If selected for a shortlist interview, you will be contacted by phone and/or email.
• Send your applications to Careers@rescueforhunger.org by 30th August 2026.