Community Health Specialist, Cameroon

PARTNER NAME: VSO Cameroon
LOCATION: North West Province, City of Bamenda, Cameroon
LENGTH OF PLACEMENT: 12-24 months
FUNDING ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS : Must be Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident
LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS: English Level 4-5

Cuso International is a non-profit development organization that works through volunteers. Each year, we send hundreds of global citizens to work on collaborative development projects in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

For the 2012-2015 strategy, Cuso’s local programming partner VSO Cameroon has identified that targeting rural women would be the most strategic means of addressing poverty issues in the long term and enabling communities to support particularly vulnerable groups themselves. Since the new strategy and ways of working are still in formation, the role will include working as part of a team to identify how the outcomes can most effectively be achieved, developing new partnerships and taking forwards new areas of work.

Empower women to actively participate in decision making within the household and wider communityEmpower women to take informed control of their own health and demand increase access to better quality maternal health provisionSupport inclusion of women in social auditing of health careSupport and train existing community health relay agentsSupport community health providers to mainstream HIV awareness

Essential requirements

Medical, nursing or relevant public health degree level qualification (MBChB, MBBS, BSc, MPh)Clinical experience working within maternal health services or in a clinically focused public health roleTeaching, training and/or counseling experienceKnowledge of family planning and reproductive health (and preferably clinical experience)

Our training and support package covers the costs of being an overseas volunteer, allowing you to enjoy a modest but healthy lifestyle while you volunteer abroad.

For more information and to access our online application form, please follow the link below:

http://volunteerplacementsoverseas.org/CMFiles/CMR0332-0004-0001%20Community%20Health%20Specialist%20bilingual.pdf

…or visit us at www.cusointernational.org

Please mention that you saw this listing on the Canadian Public Health Association’s website.

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