Job Description: This position will involve working closely with local “tent communities/camps” composed of people who have been displaced by the recent earthquake in Haiti. The position will require field visits to the communities to provide information on sanitation and hygiene in an effort to prevent child illnesses and other diseases. The position works in conjunction with the clinical leads of all of the community clinics as well as the participating hospitals.

The public health community liason will be responsible for 2-3 communities at a time providing information and conducting the public health interventions within the tent communities

Duties include:
• Conduct educational sessions for the committees and community members within the tent communities/camps.
• Provide onsite support to conduct needs assessments and focus groups among sites that will be added as expansion proceeds.
• Implement on-site public health community activities that will be used by the members of the community as basic public health norms.
• Provide reports to the Public Health Community Lead for completed community activities

• Speak Creole.
• Strong ability to support development of educational tools for immediate usage and dissemination
• Experience in community organizing and empowerment
• Experience in community health information dissemination

Organization’s values related to the position:
Dignity of the human person. / Common good. / Option for the poor. / Applies a positive, action-oriented attitude.

Interested candidates should send their curriculum vitae with a cover letter, and copy of certificates in a sealed envelope to the Human Resources Department, before February 12, 2010 at one of the followings addresses:

2010-02-05