Health and Nutrition Officer -Tahtay Adiabo

• Employment Type: Definite period( until April 2027)
• Salary :– 830 USD
• Must be fluent in Tigrigna language

Role Purpose

The position holder will play a key role in delivering mobile health, nutrition, and basic primary healthcare services in Tahtay Adiabo Woreda, Tigray Region, particularly for remote and hard-to-reach kebeles, drought-affected communities, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) where access to fixed health facilities is limited or disrupted. The service includes life-saving community-level interventions such as screening of children and pregnant and lactating women (PLW) for acute malnutrition, and management of cases through Outpatient Therapeutic Programme (OTP), Stabilization Centre (SC), and Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme (TSFP), as well as provision of basic treatment for common childhood illnesses, maternal and child health (MCH) services, and health education. It also strengthens the referral system by identifying and referring severe or complicated cases from community and mobile outreach sites to nearby health centres or higher-level health facilities for appropriate management

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for the day-to-day MHT activity and implementation plan which aligned to the health center and woreda based plan.
• The plan should consider preventive, promote health, curative health service and

  nutritional status of children and PLW. Additionally, he/she is responsible for preparing a joint daily movement plan with corresponding woreda and PHCU and submitting.

• Responsible for Acute and life-threatening illnesses treatment at the primary health care level
• Responsible for Safe motherhood and child health consultation
• Supporting integrated mobile health service modality, daily dispensary, and drug supply management
• Responsible for day-to-day documentation of service provided.
• Strengthening of early referrals mechanism.
• Provide supervision, technical assistance, and capacity building to entire MHNT and health extension workers.
• Strengthening linkages and coordination mechanisms between community, health facilities and the Woreda health office.
• Responsible for Working at temporary Adult OPD and manage all cases Communicable and NCD.
• Responsible for Medical Consultation encountered by the team, including reproductive health
• Compile weekly and monthly reports and share with MHTS team leader /focal person at Woreda health offices and PHCU level.
• Support the team and coordinate activities

Technical Support and Facilitation

• Provision of technical support to the MHNT, local partners and local government
• Participate in needs assessments and problem identification activities.
• Foster linkages with partners and other stakeholders in the public and private sector at local level to enhance synergy, collaboration and learning.
• Conduct and document regular field visits to monitor progress, receive community feedback, and to check on the quality of MHNT services and impact of activities.
• Participates in logistics coordination by collaborating with the logistics department on the procurement, transportation and distribution of MHNT,materials and other inputs as required for the program.
• Improving basic preventive health care at community level in line with public health emergency principles with emphasis on preventing maternal and newborn deaths.
• Conduct & undertake family health services as part of primary health care
• Provide maternal nutrition counselling and breast feeding including Iron and Folic acid supplementation for pregnant mothers
• Strengthening of early referrals mechanism in addition to maternal and child health illnesses.
• Ensure all referral cases are properly transported to the nearest higher health facility or Woreda capital.
• Strengthening linkages and coordination mechanisms between community and the Woreda health bureaus.
• Facilitate planning and promotion of awareness creation on Family planning including available contraceptives, Nutrition and preventative health care issues in the community.
• Strengthen effective communication and close working relationships among other nutrition partners, program beneficiaries and Woreda Health offices,
• Responsible to uphold and promote Concern’s values, including our workplace equality, diversity and inclusion, and safeguarding values.
• Participate and contribute as necessary towards Concern’s Emergency response as and when necessary.

Emergency response

Concern is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike and the Ethiopia Programme is to respond, all staff are required to actively participate in the response, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objective of the organization.

Gender Equality

• Demonstrate understanding of Concern Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy
• Contribute to ensuring that Concern Ethiopia is a place where men and women are treated equally and with dignity and respect
• Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities.

Accountability

In line with Concern’s commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS):

• actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle (planning, implementation, M&E);
• work with relevant colleagues to ensure that the Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) is functional and accessible, that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed;
• Work with relevant colleagues to ensure that information about CRM, safeguarding and expected staff behavior is disseminated among programme participants and communities.

Safeguarding

• Able to seek appropriate advice and report concerns, and feel confident that they have been understood.
• Understands local safeguarding structures and arrangements.
• Practice in a manner that seeks to reduce the risk of abuse, harm or neglect.
• Identifies and refers to appropriate services any other associated persons including carers, family members and children at risk.
• Able to document safeguarding concerns, and maintain appropriate record keeping, recording the wishes and views of the adult or child at risk, differentiating between fact and opinion.

Essential knowledge, skills and experience

• Degree in Health officer or Nursing.
• 3-4 years relevant experience
• Proven and demonstrable experience of working in a similar role and context.
• Demonstrable communication skills, with good spoken and written English and local language(s).
• Computer literacy in MS Office applications.
• Good technical/programme knowledge in area of responsibility
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.

Competencies

Candidates are expected to demonstrate abilities in the following priority competency areas (highlight 3-4 competencies in bold as appropriate):

 

Managing Yourself	Planning and decision-making
Leadership	Creativity and innovation
Communication and working with others	Influence, advocacy and networking
Delivering results	Change

What we offer

• A competitive salary and benefit package
• Excellent medical benefits (100% cover including dependents)
• 20 days annual leave
• 26 weeks (paid) maternity leave, 18 weeks (unpaid) parental leave

Important information:

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct with three Associated Policies: The Programme Participant Protection Policy, the Child Safeguarding Policy, and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible here. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisations, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in their work, in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment.

By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Consequently, working or volunteering with Concern may be subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.

During this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.