Community Field Worker, Community Field Worker, Community Field Worker

Workplace Circumstances

• Environment: Outdoors
• Languages: English, Khmer
• Location: Kampong Cham Province

Position Summary

Number of positions to be recruited: Three field workers for Batheay, Prey Chhor, and Kompong Siem Districts

Reports to: Program Assistant

Travel Expectations: 80%

The Community Field Worker (CFW) plays a vital role in bridging the gap between demand and supply for eye health services among Cambodia’s populations living in rural and remote areas of the country. The CFW contributes to Seva’s mission of ending avoidable blindness by ensuring equity and inclusive access to eye health among vulnerable and disadvantaged people including elderly, women and girls, people with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups.

By raising awareness, conducting eye screening among rural and remote populations, and referring the patients for eye surgeries and other services, conducting follow-up activities, the CFW ensures that vulnerable and disadvantaged people who needs eye care treatment are able to receive the services regardless of their ability to pay.

Since the positions require extensive field work in Kampong Cham Province, priority will be given to candidates from the three target districts in Batheay, Prey Chhor, and Kompong Siem Districts of Kampong Cham province where these positions are based. Trainings will be provided to selected candidates to ensure their competence in performing the expected role and responsibilities.

Work Expectations:

Four days of outreach screening from Monday to Thursday, and one day of office work every Friday. Office work includes reviewing and summarizing outreach screening data; cases follow up and counselling with cases referred; communicate with hospital and vision centers on case referred, preparing work plan, submitting administrative and expense report; and other administrative tasks such as stories writing.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Community outreach screening and referral support - level of effort 70%
• Develop and implement annual and monthly work plans for conducting door-to-door screening activities,and regularly report progress and challenges.
• Implement systematic household screening using D2D app, covering assigned villages and districts and the entire population in the target districts according to approved workplans.
• Identify, refer and support patients with cataract, refractive errors, presbyopia, common eye diseases, and other vision problems for appropriate referral and follow-up to vision centers and partner hospitals following established referral guidelines.
• Coordinate with partner hospital for eye surgeries schedule for referred patients
• Follow up with patients after cataract and other eye surgeries to ensure they attend their post-operative follow-up appointments.
• Provide eyeglasses on-the-spot to people diagnosed with presbyopia.
• Eye health awareness and community engagement - level of effort 15%
• Provide eye health education during outreach screening
• Collaborate with local authorities, health centers, village leaders, teachers, and community health groups on eye health education and screening;
• Represent Seva at Provincial Technical Working Group meetings and related coordination events when assigned.
• Other responsibilities - level of effort 15%
• Support in cross-checking monthly surgery report submitted by partner hospitals
• Support school eye health screening activities.
• Support in collecting and writing patient stories.
• Support in documenting reasons patients refusing to undergo eye surgeries.

Languages

• Khmer
• English - Basic

Qualifications

• High School Diploma

Work History

• Community outreach work or field coordination in Cambodia for 2 years as a minimum

General & Technical Skills

• A high school graduate with preference given to candidate with an associate degree graduate.
• Experience using smartphones, tablets, or digital data collection applications.
• Tech literate and familiar with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• A Khmer native speaker with basic command of English

Soft Skills

• Ability to prioritize and work independently under a tight deadline
• Strong commitment to meet outreach screening and referral targets
• Available to and comfortable traveling in rural communities on motorbike.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.