County Experts in Community Relations

Job Description

Date of Announcement Publication: 26.04.2023
Validity: until 05.05.2023, 16:00 
Location: Regional
Program: Part-time
Employment Period: Fixed-term

The Romanian Angel Appeal Foundation (RAA) collaborates with County Experts in Community Relations to prepare rural communes for tuberculosis screening within a mobile caravan. The activity is implemented progressively at the national level, in 200 communes from counties in the North-West, Centre, South-West Oltenia, and South Muntenia regions.

The project “Organizing early detection (screening), diagnosis, and treatment programs for early tuberculosis, including latent tuberculosis” – funded by the European Social Fund, Operational Program Human Capital 2014-2020, is implemented by the Marius Nasta Institute of Pneumology in partnership with six NGOs, including RAA.

We are recruiting 2 County Experts in Community Relations to prepare communities and mobilize the target group (people from rural areas) for tuberculosis screening in this county. The expert will be contracted part-time, for a determined period, corresponding to the number of communes selected for this county.

Required Studies and Experience:

• Higher education
• Minimum 1 year of experience working with local authorities, local or county institutions (advantageous)

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare selected communities for screening, ensuring the mobile caravan’s schedule is followed.
• Establish and maintain functional relationships with responsible institutions and individuals in selected communities and at the county level.
• Recruit local volunteers (e.g., community health workers, health mediators, family doctors, social workers) to help identify and schedule the target group for screening services when the mobile caravan is present.
• Alongside local volunteers, distribute messages about tuberculosis and the importance of TB screening during locally organized activities.
• Collaborate with regional experts to monitor the screening campaign in each selected community (both office and on-site monitoring).
• Conduct site visits to project implementation locations and prepare relevant activity reports.
• Maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and information daily, applying measures to protect documents and works.

Potential candidates are requested to submit a complete application consisting of:

• EUROPASS CV in Romanian, specifying the position applied for (County Expert in Community Relations), dated and signed on each page.
• Copy of ID and marriage certificate (if applicable), marked “true copy” and signed on each page.
  Copies of diplomas, certificates, and qualifications proving the information in the CV, marked “true copy” and signed on each page.
• Copies of documents proving specific experience, in line with job requirements (certificates, copies of the employment record book, or employment contracts).
  
  To process your application, please ensure to include the completed and signed data usage consent form. Only complete applications submitted by the deadline will be considered.
  The Romanian Angel Appeal Foundation is an equal opportunity employer.