Location: Eastern Amhara
Deadline: May 03, 2023
Job Description
Employee Contract Type:
Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Location Of Work: Gubalafto
Contract Duration: Until December 15, 2023
- Supporting woredas and PHCU in planning and conducting nutrition screening activities;
- Ensuring existence of functional referral pathways and linkages between communities and HF and vice versa;
- Promoting the availability of services to which beneficiaries can be referred, training of staff in nutrition screening and referral services;
- Ensuring that HFs are equipped with minimum supplies needed for nutrition screening activities, (e.g. MUAC tapes, registration and reporting format, referral forms, guidelines etc.);
- Promoting and supporting community mobilization and sensitization activities towards nutrition screening program.
- Support and assist Woreda Health Offices and PHCUs in the piloting of Family MUAC approach.
- Facilitate monthly Review meeting with the SC, OTP sites, health workers and woreda health office staffs at cluster and woreda levels;
- Conduct regular supportive supervision and provide technical support on stabilization Center and Outpatient Therapeutic Program sites every week;
- Ensure linkage of OTP discharges, MAM children, and acutely Malnourished PLW to distribution of protection and TSF ration (If applicable);
- Print, laminate and Provide the necessary OTP/SC guide lines and protocols for running OTP/SC, photocopy for other related activities;
- Conduct capacity assessment of SC, OTP sites, and staffs to identify the minimum support package/transition
- Ensure Job aids are available in Health posts (HEW quick reference, Look up table, report format, tally sheet, Plump nut and drug stock control balance form)
- Ensure the integration of IYCF to CMAM programming through strengthening of psychosocial & emotional sites & IYCF promotion & counseling;
Required Education and Professional Experience:
- BSc degree in Public Health/ Clinical Nursing/Nutrition and related health field of study preferred from accredited universities or health colleges
- Minimum three years of working experience with NGOs in CMAM program, specific to OTP/SC;
Certificates on:
- Acute malnutrition 2019 revised guideline training
- Revised 2019 IMAM guideline training
- Revised 2019 IMAM guideline training
- Integrated Pharmaceuticals Logistics System (IPLS)
- Trained on Family MUAC approach
- SMART survey basic training
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only