Najla Hariri, Community Healthcare Educator- Team Leader

Najla Hariri

Community Healthcare Educator- Team Leader

International Orthodox Christian Charities

Location
Lebanon
Education
Bachelor's degree, Nutrition and Dietetics (Coordinated Program)
Experience
7 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :7 years, 3 Months

Community Healthcare Educator- Team Leader at International Orthodox Christian Charities
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • March 2022 to July 2022

• Manage, direct, train and educate ‘Community Healthcare Educator Volunteers’ on work methodology, systems used (kobo, referrals...) and the necessary topics needed for the awareness sessions.
• Make sure CHE- Volunteers are covering the allocated areas of intervention and meeting set deadlines.
• Oversee day-to-day and week-to-week tasks and goals.
• Communicate urgent issues with upper management.
• Develop PR and attain approvals from focal points, NGOs, beneficiaries, community leaders, and dispensaries in different communities.
• Perform awareness sessions at the community level where approval was obtained.
• Train community members and mothers on specific screening and assessment tools in order for them to apply them.
• Collect needed feedback from beneficiaries and CHE- volunteers.
• Identify and refer needed cases to a national hotline, social workers, or specific specialists to receive needed support.
• Distribute specific aids to populations at risk as required.
• Collect specific data, develop and submit necessary daily, weekly, and monthly reports through different applications and systems.
• Attend meetings.

Community Health Worker at Makhzoumi Foundation and UNICEF -MoPH - NUdge
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • November 2017 to December 2021

Projects:

Community Healthcare Outreach Field Worker -Team Leader, UNICEF’s Project
“Improving MNCAH through promoting access to comprehensive PHC services” Nov 2019- Dec 2021

• Conduct campaigns and awareness sessions to raise awareness on specific health topics through household visits.
• Promote Primary Healthcare Centers (PHC) and specific services to vulnerable societies or communities in need.
• Provide targeted vulnerable communities with Emergency Food Supplies such as micronutrient supplements, BP-5 compact food, high-energy biscuits and peanut butter plumpy.
• Aid teams in mapping and damage assessment in Emergency Response after the August 4 Beirut Port Blast.
• Collect data, feedback and challenges from beneficiaries regarding services to resolve possible issues.
• Attend ongoing trainings.
• Report data, training summaries, possible challenges and gaps in the field or in the methodology of work.
• Aid in training incoming outreach field workers in the field throughout the project.
Community Healthcare Outreach Field Worker, UNICEF, MoPH, and NUDGE’s Project
“Accelerated Immunization Activities, AIA I and II” Nov 2017- Dec 2018
• Conduct awareness sessions for caregivers and a thorough screening to various communities regarding malnutrition and immunization.
• Perform necessary malnutrition screening for children within the targeted group age.
• Following up with the caregiver to ensure behavioural changes.
• Refer malnourished children to PHCs to receive required treatment and continues to Follow up.
• Report required data, challenges and possible gaps for improvement.

Healthcare Field Worker, UNICEF’S Project “Measles Outbreak Immunization” March 2018
• Monitor vaccination cards and ensure proper vaccination for the targeted age groups for children in Sabra and Shatila during the Measles Outbreak.

Dietitian at Najla's Clinic
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • February 2016 to June 2021

Diet plans tailored to individual’s needs based on: age, weight, height, physical activities, life’s pattern, past medical history, past surgical history, current medical case, medications and much more!

Manager and Owner of Najlazkitchen at Najlazkitchen
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • May 2018 to December 2018

• Preparing Recipes weekly
• Getting all the material needed
• Photo-shooting the plates
• Managing social media: WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook
• Preparing weekly offers/questions/competitions
• Preparing daily tips
• Trying new recipes
• Doing online consultations w/ and w/out weekly/monthly food subscription
• Managing two delivery guys and helper

Medical Representative at Macromed S.A.L.
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 2017 to October 2017

Medical Representative

Recruiter and Interviewer at QuintilesIMS
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • November 2016 to March 2017

Recruiter and Interviewer | IMS HEALTH (Now QuintilesIMS) | American multinational company serving the combined industries of health information technologies and clinical research.

Dietetic and Food Service at Rizk Hospital
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • September 2015 to May 2016

Lebanese American University Medical Center Rizk Hospital Both:

Dietetic Rotations:

NCP, Cancer/oncology, Internal medicine, OBGYN, CCU, pediatrics, Surgery, renal, outpatients, and ICU and

Food Service Rotations:

Food production, diet aide, purchasing, receiving, and storage, patient food service, and cafeteria.

Food Safety and Quality Audit at Ministry of Ecocnomics- Lebanon
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • February 2016 to March 2016

Community Work| Consumer Protection Sector |Food Safety and Quality Audits | Ministry of Economics

Community Field and office coordinator at Lebanese International Value Chain Development
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • April 2015 to July 2015

Community Field and office coordinator| Food Processing Sector |Community, Nutrition, food safety, Food technology, Food processing, Agriculture, HACCP, ISO22000 and reporting | Lebanese International Value Chain Development (LIVCD) IN collaboration with DAI and USAID

Food Safety and Quality Control at Socrate S.A.L.
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • February 2015 to March 2015

Food Safety and Quality Control internship: Monitoring, evaluation, educating and training staff, audits and inspections on the ground and with the documents

Education

Bachelor's degree, Nutrition and Dietetics (Coordinated Program)
  • at Lebanese American University
  • January 2016

Food safety, Catering, Dietetics, Quality control, Management, food processing, health care, critical conditions, community work , NGOs, market research

Specialties & Skills

Management
Leadership
Communications
Teamwork
Quality Control
Food Safety Expert
Kitchen manager
Dietitian
Microsoft office
Coordinating
Recruiter and interviewer
Clinical Nutrition
Nutritional Counseling
Nutrition Consulting
Teamwork
Nutrition
Microsoft PowerPoint
Teaching
Nutrition Education
Dietetics
Problem Solving
Medical Nutrition Therapy
Food Safety

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

Team Leader Volunteer – Lebanese University Task Force - Beirut Blast –Summer 2020 (over 3 Month) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2020
Manufacturing / Supervising HACCP for Catering , Highfield Awarding Body - Boecker– UK (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
Advanced Food Safety Certificate Program (PRP-HACCP-ISO2200 –Internal and External Auditing) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2017
Applying Behavioral Insights to Enhance Accelerated Immunization Activities, NUDGE, 2018 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2018
Prevention of Harassment, Sexual Harassment, and Abuse of Authority (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2020
Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2020
B.S Nutrition and Dietetics (Coordinated Program) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2016
Food Safety and Quality Control (Training)
Training Institute:
Socrate Catering S.A.L
Date Attended:
January 2016
Duration:
180 hours
Dietetic and Food Service (Training)
Training Institute:
Rizk Hospital
Date Attended:
September 2015
Duration:
1600 hours
Food Processing/technology/Safety (Training)
Training Institute:
Lebanese International Value Chain Development - DAI - USAID
Date Attended:
April 2016
Duration:
600 hours
Food Safety and Quality Control Audits (Training)
Training Institute:
Ministry of Economics
Date Attended:
February 2016
Duration:
180 hours