Health and Nutrition Team Lead 16 views

The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

LOCATION:  Shilabo   (Gode),

GRADE:  4A

Vacant Position: 1

POST TYPE: National

Child Safeguarding:

Level 3:  Level 3:  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

ROLE PURPOSE: The position holder is responsible for managing and overseeing overall health and nutrition activities in the assigned woreda including planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of health and nutrition activities. s/he is expected to lead and ensure the technical quality implementation of health and nutrition activities in the woreda and while maintaining close working relationship with the woreda, Kebele, community, and religious leaders, HWs, HEWs, and CHVs for the effective implementation and linkage of health and nutrition activities with the community and facility. s/he is responsible for representing Save the Children International in woreda level partners coordination platforms. In addition, the position holder is also expected to provide a consistent and high-quality technical support in relation to health and nutrition activities implementation and will assist CMAM/IMAM officers, IYCF, MHNTs, OTP/SC nurses, measurers and other team in the woreda to build strong implementation packages.

SCOPE OF ROLE: 

Report to: Health & Nutrition Coordinator

Dimensions: Save the Children works in 9 regions in Ethiopia with a current staff complement of approximately 1,800 staff and a current expenditure of approximately $90+ million each year.

Staff directly reporting to this post: Nutrition Officer, IYCF Officer, TSFP Warehouse Officer.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Lead the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health and nutrition activities in the assigned woreda.
• Establish and maintain good working environment with woreda level partners including woreda health office, HWs, HEWs, CHVs and the community.
• Represent Save the Children International in partners coordination platforms at the assigned woreda.
• Document and share feedback from woreda level partners coordination meetings to the supervisor as appropriate.
• Provide technical support and training where required to all team remembers, outreach teams including health extension workers and community volunteers and ensure the quality implementation of the programs.
• Conduct regular field visits with woreda health to provide supportive supervisions to health and nutrition teams, woreda staff (HWs and HEWs).
• Document findings, lessons learned, and recommendations of the field visits for fallow up actions and share as appropriate with the nutrition coordinator.
• Makes sure that CMAM/IMAM, MHNTs programs are implemented according to the National protocol i.e., application of the admission and discharge criteria, closely monitors and strictly follows anthropometry measurement.
• Ensure that TSFP protocols are strictly fallowed and implemented.
• Facilitates the trainings under the health and nutrition projects at the assigned woreda.
• Makes sure that the health and nutrition staff have adequate training on the management of acute malnutrition per National manual.
• Ensures the availability of job aids, reporting formats, therapeutic products and drugs for program implementation.
• Supports and liaise with the health center staff and provide on the job training and capacity building where required.
• Makes sure that health professionals from the health facilities to participate on the daily routine work for sustainability and smooth phase out strategy,
• Works and liaise with any local health workers to integrate the CMAM/IMAM program from the start.
• Prepare and share weekly, monthly and quarterly reports of health and nutrition activities including SC/OTP/TSFP, IYCF, MHNTs, community mobilization and screening reports on time to the nutrition coordinator.
• Provide regular updates on nutrition stock status and support woreda health office to request supplies a head of time.
• Coordinates the link of acute malnutrition cases with EOS/CBN/CHD/TSFP/PSNP and facilitates regular registration of non-EOS beneficiaries and submits on monthly bases.
• Provides a daily/weekly/and monthly overview 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.
• Reports any problems in a timely manner to the Nutrition field coordinator,
• Coaches and supervises the CMAM/IMAM, MHNTs, IYCF, SFP, OTP, SC program officer.
• Responsible for effective logistic managements
• Proper team management.
• Upholds the image and values of SC at all times,
• Performs other related tasks as required and tasks assigned by the organization.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children 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

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their personal development, and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members, and external partners, and supporters
• Values diversity, and 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