Health and Nutrition Coordinator – Bale Field Office

Level 3 – the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people

The role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; ore because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Reports to:  Health and Nutrition Project Manager.

Dimensions: Save the Children works in Ethiopia with a current staff complement of approximately 1300 staff and current expenditure of approximately $100+ million each year.

Staff directly reporting to this post:  CMAM Officer, TSFP Officers, IYCF-E and MHNT officer

• Coordinate and facilitate implementation of activities and prepare weekly Project activities update for the Districts.
• Represent SCI in Zonal and Woreda level Cluster coordination meetings.
• Facilitate training, work closely with MOH staffs at Health posts, Health centre and hospital, and district level.
• Ensure Overall program quality implementation of the CMAM/TSFP/IYCF-E and MHNT  implementation at Woredas
• Adherence to medical and nutritional treatment protocols and procedures for children and infants in OTP/SC and SC/TFU
• Provide onsite training to HEW/HWs and nurses on the Management of SAM (-/+)
• 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)
• Receive weekly reports from CMAM Officer, TSFP officer, IYCF-E officer and  MHNT Officer and compile for the Zone.
• Conduct regular checklist based supportive supervision on targeted health facilities.
•  Facilitate joint monitoring visits /joint supportive supervisions/ in integration with woreda health office.
• Generates’ and share supervision reports and feedbacks for project coordinator, woreda health office and health facilities.
• Follow and ensures, action taken by all responsible parties on gaps identified during supervision,
•  Supports and liaise with the woreda health office staffs and provide on the job training/coaching and capacity building where required.
• Working with the IYCF Officer, to ensure SC beneficiaries are referred to IYCF services when required.
• Coordinates the link of acute malnutrition cases with CBN/CHD/TSFP/PSNP, facilitates regular registration of beneficiaries, and submits on monthly bases.
• Supports referral linkage of malnourished children of in between CMAM programs (OTP, SC and TSFP).
• Ensure adequate availability of all medical and food supplies for each distribution, input in to creation and maintenance of a monthly distribution plan and ensure stock is pre-positioned as planned with Nutrition project coordinator and logistics team.
• Undertake individual evaluations with the team and improve gaps.
•  Creates and maintain smooth relationship with local health and other authorities and try to link SC program with the existing health service structure.
•  Makes sure that health professional from the health facilities to participate on the daily routine work for sustainability and smooth phase out strategy.
• Provides technical support and training where required to all team members, outreach team including health extension workers, HDAs and community volunteers.
• Works and liaise with any local health workers to integrate the SC program from the start.
• Plan and organise SC/OTP/SFP and MHNT activities at designated distribution sites in liaison with project team
• Organizes monthly report of SC/OTP/SFP/Community mobilization and report on time to the project coordinator and provide updates when needed.
• Provides a monthly over view of drug items, SFP materials and wet ration stocks supplied to beneficiaries.
•  Manages the stock levels of therapeutic products, drugs and all other materials and alert the logistics in a timely manner, as more materials are required.
•  Collect, analyse and share data’s required for monitoring quality of SC programs based on SPHERE standards (average weight gain, average length of stay).
•  Provides technical report on emergency health and nutrition for strengthening surveillance and public health emergency management.
•  Participates in responses to public emergencies (disaster, outbreaks).
•  Reports updates on humanitarian situations on implementation areas.
•  Reports any problems in a timely manner to the project coordinator.
• Control and facilitate vehicle movement within the project area in the field.
•  Upholds the image and values of SC at all times.
• Performs other related tasks as required.