Peer Coach Job Description
At Living Goods we empower people to improve the health of their families, friends and communities. Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ health entrepreneurs who go door to door to teach families how to improve their health and wealth and sell life-changing products such as simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, safe delivery kits, fortified foods, clean cook stoves, water filters, and solar lights. By combining the best practices from business and public health, we are dramatically lowering child mortality AND creating livelihoods for thousands of enterprising women. Living Goods supports a network of over 2,000 micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda and Kenya who teach families in their communities how to improve health and well-being while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook-stoves, and solar lights. As part of the Branch Team, you will play a key role in supporting Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) to deliver high quality health care to their communities and generate sales of critical products.
- Company: Living Goods
- Location: Kenya
- State: Vihiga
- Job type: Full-Time
- Job category: Healthcare/Medical Jobs in Kenya - Living Goods Jobs in Keny
Job Purpose
To support a network of Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) within a sub county, primarily to support the Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) & Community health Assistants (CHAs) deliver high impact through best practice, digitally enabled performance management and supervision and supporting the sub county and county health teams to deliver impactful community health.
Key Responsibilities / Duties / Tasks
- Coach and mentor CHAs & CHEWs attached on performance management, use of digital tools, utilization of dashboards and use of data for decision making.
- Accompany CHAs & CHEWs for Field Visits and offer support supervision.
- Undertake necessary measures to ensure that CHAs & CHEWs report quality data.
- Offer first level support on Android issues faced by the CHAs, CHEWs & CHVs.
- Participate in Community Events including dialogue & Action days.
- Support in-service Training and any other trainings that may arise.
- Support CHAs & CHEWs in quantification and management of Commodities of CHVs
- Develop and maintain a good working relationship with local government in the area of operation.
- Attend and support CUs review meetings and sub county planning meetings. Alert the Supervisor Coach to any arising risks, challenges, and impediments to implementation.
Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills)
Academic Qualifications
- Diploma in community health, business management or a related field.
Work experience required
- Minimum of (1) year relevant experience for degree holders and (2) years relevant experience for Diploma holders as a Community Health Supervisor or Manager in community health field.
Competencies/Attributes
- Learns from experience and applies what is learned to new situations.
- Plans, prioritizes, breaks down tasks accordingly.
- Supports in Program/projects in data analysis, collation of information, reporting etc.
- Supervisory skills and high levels of integrity.
- Ability to communicate and share information verbally and in writing.