FHI 360- Alive & Thrive Project Maternal and Adolescent Nutrition Officer Jobs in Ethiopia
FHI 360- Alive & Thrive Project Maternal and Adolescent Nutrition Officer Jobs in Ethiopia
Position SummaryThe A&T Woreda Maternal and Adolescent Nutrition Officer will provide technical support to implement A&T’s maternal and adolescent nutrition activities in the assigned woreda.
The maternal implementation research is aimed at improving maternal nutrition through enhancing quality and coverage of ANC services at PHCU and the adolescent nutrition research is aimed at testing packages of adolescent nutrition intervention through school, PHCU and community engagement.
Under the guidance of the senior AMIYCN Advisor and Senior Regional Program Manager, the woredas Nutrition Officer ensures the proper implementation of activities planned under both implementation researches.
The position holder in each woreda will closely work with woreda health and education offices, health center heads, MCH staffs, HEWs, schools’ supervisors and schoolteachers and community workers.
The position plays a critical role in capacity building the capacity of health, education and community actors to deliver quality maternal and adolescent nutrition services through organizing capacity building trainings, conducting a very frequent problem-solving supportive supervisions, review sessions and community mobilization.
In collaboration with other A&T team, the position holder also participates in documentation of best practices and different implementation research assessment
This position will communicate, connect, and coordinate the assigned woreda offices with the regional A&T Senior Program Manager in maternal and adolescent nutrition activities.
General roles/responsibilities
Under maternal nutrition implementation research, the position holder will be responsible for;
Organize and lead maternal nutrition capacity building trainings for woreda health office staffs, health center staffs, health extension workers and community volunteers;
Conduct problem solving frequent supervisor to facilities to ensuring the provision of quality nutrition counseling provided to each pregnant woman by ANC providers during health center and health post visits, during PW conferences, and during home visits. In addition, checking for the availability of maternal nutrition supplies and proper documentation will be among the components of supervision;
Collect monthly report, insert data base and generate and share feedback work closely with the MLE team to conduct capacity need assessments;
Support to organize monthly cluster level performance review meeting, making sure the integration of maternal nutrition activities reviews during cluster level performance review;
Doing biweekly cluster level program quality audits. This will be done through conducting mentorship supervision visits to intervention health centers and health posts, administering random exit interviews with pregnant women in a routine manner, interviewing recently delivered women at immunization sessions and maternity wards, conducting observations of supplies and records, review data in ANC registers and health cards to make sure records are complete and up to date as per the stated standard;
Provide frequent feedback to A&T regional and national staff, highlighting good achievements and progress as well as gaps in maternal nutrition services, supplies and records;
Provide quality (complete, consistent and timely) monthly monitoring data to A&T based on its reportable indicators and HMIS’s data flow and reporting dates up to woreda level;
Organize an integrated refresher and data review session every two months and ensure attendance of delegates (managers, staff, supervisors and service providers) from health posts, health centers, and woreda health offices;
Providing appropriate support for the end line evaluation preparations and actual execution; and
Document and share progresses, best practices and lessons learned as per the described details of deliverables.
Under Adolescent nutrition implementation research, the position holder will be responsible for;
Organize and lead adolescent nutrition capacity building trainings for woreda health and education office staffs, school actors, health center staffs, health extension workers and community volunteers;
Fill
gaps in the availability and use of communication materials for school actors, health, parents and community members;
distribute communication materials and reporting tools and ensure the availability and proper utilization of the materials at the end users’ level;
Providing a mentorship and coaching support to school, health and community actors (spending over 90% time to identify and solve problems with school principals, biology and science teachers, mentors and health workers);
Working with community and health actors to increase parental reach with key adolescent nutrition messages by doing multiple home
visits to every parent with an adolescent in the program schools, attending gatherings and supporting additional relevant ways of reaching parents;
Conducting school level monthly data reviews at each school; the review topics will include the number of times each student and parent was reached with AN message, content of messages delivered in each contact, gaps and opportunities and actions to increase contacts;
Organizing progress review meeting sessions every two months to review monitoring data and its quality and actions accomplished by health workers and school and woreda education offices;
Provide quality (complete, consistent and timely) monthly monitoring data to A&T regional manager based on its reportable indicators.
Documentation of lessons learned (at least one lesson learned per month); draft a brief addressing what is working and what is not working and why; recommend actions needed;
Provide frequent feedback to A&T regional and national staff, highlighting good achievements and progress as well as gaps in reaching adolescent girls and their parents in key AN message and on the milestones around the adoption of behaviors;
Providing appropriate support for the end line evaluation preparations and actual execution; and
Document and share progresses, best practices and lessons learned as per the described details in project document.
Job Requirements
Required Qualifications and Skills
Education
Masters in one of the following or related fields: Human Nutrition; Public Health with emphasis on Nutrition; Behavior Change Communications, Behavioral Science (emphasis on Health and Nutrition preferred).
Experience
At least 4 years of relevant experience in Ethiopia-Somali in designing, implementing, monitoring and reporting on capacity building in advocacy, service delivery, interpersonal communication, community mobilization activities.
Strong understanding of health and education structures and situation of the region and work experience with both sectors.
Familiarity with nutrition indicators, especially MIYCN data collection, analysis, strategic data use, and report-outs.
Additional knowledge of maternal and adolescent nutrition preferred.
Skills
Ability to work independently, assess priorities, and manage a variety of activities while communicating, connecting, and collaborating with reginal staff Ability to work effectively in a team consisting of people with different technical backgrounds and with varying levels of technical training and expertise;
Training and facilitation skills in formal and community settings
Strong interpersonal, supervisory, and organizational skills
Excellent problem-solving skills
Excellent writing, editorial, and communication skills, including strong presentation skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills (Somaligna & English languages) is required.
Good knowledge of offices: word, excel, PowerPoint presentations.
Additional Information
Works in a typical government office setting; working conditions include extensive travel within the region to Zone and Woredas
How to Apply
FHI360 is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
FHI360 is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or status as a veteran with respect to policies, programs, or activities.
To apply, please submit your cover letter and resume by using ethio-jobs website: www.ethiojobs.net
Deadline: November 01, 2020
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted
“Women Applicants are Highly Encouraged to Apply”
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