Senior Community Development and Nutrition Officer

About ASDEPO:

Action for Social Development and Environmental Protection Organization (ASDEPO) is an Ethiopian indigenous, “Civil Society Organization” established in 2014. ASDEPO is mandated to operate in all regional states of the country and is engaged in different thematic program areas of intervention namely: Humanitarian Response, Education, Health, Women and Youth Economic Empowerment, Gender Based Violence and Child Protection, Migration/Human Trafficking, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), NTD’s Climate Change, Agriculture, Environmental Protection and Training in Gambella, Oromiya, Benishangul Gumuz, Afar and Somali Region.

Job Summary

The position holder will be responsible to undertaking all tasks for project implementation at Zonal level both Food security and Nutrition components of the Programme incorporating government driven PSNP and School feeding program. He/she ensures and provide quality project deliveries are reflected within the entire project cycle and program implementation is undertaken efficiently and effectively. The position holder technically works with Project coordinator, Community development and Nutrition Officer and Community facilitators, Government stake Holders and Donors. The post is expected to have proactive engagement in the area of networking and collaboration, learning and knowledge management within the broader organization and with another partner organization

KEY Roles and Responsibilities

• Coordinating Food and nutrition Security project including supply and use of new agricultural technologies, inputs for PSNP users, SCHOOL feeding initiatives and use of new nutrition inputs at Zonal level.
• Ensure implementation of Nutrition sensitive social protection that targets PSNP and SFP project through planning, supervise progress against grant work plan and on time delivery of response activities.
• Support implementation of SBCC interventions focused on PSNP HHs and targeted SFP sites.
• Prepare regular update and share to project Coordinator
• Ensure that the goals and objectives of the project are met as per the project proposal, work plan and M & E Plan in targeted woredas.
• Implement the Nutrition Sensitive interventions to align with the Ethiopia’s social protection strategy.
• Compile, review Monthly Expenditure and Program Report and share to the Project coordinator.
• Develop Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP), Project Procurement Plan, Supply Plan at start of a project.
• Preparing timely procurement requests according to BoQ and budgets, monitoring and controlling nutrition stocks & consumption in collaboration with supply chain, Logistics, and technical teams
• Organizing and carrying out training sessions, On Job training, Mentoring and Supervision
• Organize monthly team meetings to identify challenges and track progress in the program implementation at the different centers and develop action plan and follow up accordingly.
• Organizing and leading meetings with the team and individual staff members, on both a regular and ad hoc basis

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving, and role modelling ASDEPO values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
• Widely shares their personal vision for ASDEPO’s engages and motivates others Future orientated thinks strategically.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters.
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to Creativity.
• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks
• Integrity: Honest, encourages openness and transparency

Job Requirement

Qualifications and experience

• MSc/BSC degree in nutrition, public health, agriculture, or related disciplines
• Minimum of 4 years of work experience with considerable experience in coordinating multidimensional projects on integrated WASH, Health & Nutrition, food security as well as hands-on experience on food & nutrition security focusing on Nutrition specific, climate resilient agriculture, Nutrition sensitive agriculture.
• Desirable
• Knowledge in area of emergence nutrition intervention context is preferred.
• NGO experience is mandatory