Health and Nutrition Officer
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- Job Description:
- Positive Action for Development (PAD) is an indigenous, non-governmental, humanitarian, and development organization and legally registered at the Federal level by the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Charities and Societies agency on June 6/2011 with registration number 2330. PAD would like to hire qualified professionals for FHID360 funded project entitled" Feed the Future Ethiopia Community Nutrition Activity''Specific responsibilities include the following
- Coordinate planned SBC and Community engagement training.
- Disseminate and report SBC materials.
- Support with pretesting of SBC materials
- Coordinate the nutrition catchment-based mentorship assessment at the PHCU level.
- Ensure the availability of necessary nutrition commodities and supplies (VAS, IFA Deworming, and so on) at each respective woredas and facility.
- Support in Food Nutrition assessments and surveys in target woredas and kebele
- Conduct participatory exercises to develop action plans to address multisectoral coordination gaps in target woredas.
- Provide logistical and other support for woreda-level advocacy meetings on the establishment of FN structure and manpower in food and nutrition strategy (FNS) implementing sectors at Woreda and Kebele levels
- Coordinate the overall multisectoral coordination-related activities of the target Woreda.
- Document and share success and case stories.
- Coordinator and the development of assessment tools, compilation and sharing of monthly and quarterly reporting format at all levels,
- Work with Community Nutrition and LIP MEL/Nutrition officers’ team to document community, facility, and woreda level activities and report according to standard procedure
- Document best practices, minutes of performance review meetings and JSS and share the findings with regional and country managers.
- Coordinate LME activities of the project including data collection, analysis, and reporting of data, support all assessments designed in different woredas, Coordinate and conduct DQAs at the woreda level and health facilities, coordinate HMIS and eCHIS-related training in different woredas
- Coordinate GYSI Activities including mapping and collaborating youth networks.
- Ensure the Implementation of the Community Nutrition GYSI integration strategy.
- Represent community Nutrition at Regional, Zonal, and Woreda forums.
- Provide need-based technical assistance to woreda health offices.
- Document and update the Woreda profile
- Experience in managing budget and staff.
- Experience in managing project budget, coordinating and reviewing project budget versus actual spending.
- It is identifying and monitoring project implementation risk.
- Job Requirements:
Qualification: MSc/MA/BSc/BA in Health Science, Nutrition, Public Health, Agricultural economics, and related studies
Experience: A minimum of 3 years experience in coordinating and managing projects out of which four years in Health and Nutrition.
Skills Required, Attitudes, and Attributes:
- Experience in Community Nutrition
- Training certification in attending health and nutrition.
- Creativity and the ability to work with limited resources.
- Respect, accountability, excellence, adaptability, innovation, building partnership, communicating with impact, coaching, facilitating change, information monitoring, planning and organizing, leading through vision and value.
- Understand local context
- Knowledge of the local context and experience coordinating similar project(s)
- Knowledge and experience managing community nutrition projects and coordinating similar projects.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills) in Afaan Oromo and English.
- Having Motor Bike driving license is advantageous
No required: Two
Duty Station: one for Babile and one for Gursum Woreda,
Female applicants are encouraged to apply
- Posted:
- 03.22.2024
- Deadline:
- 03.29.2024
- Job Category:
- Agriculture, Health Care
- Employment:
- Contract
- Location:
- Babile and Gursum Woreda,, Dire Dawa
Positive Action for Development (PAD)www.padethiopia.org