ICCM Project Officer

ََََ - اليمن - Yemen

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 workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued. 
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Save the Children International seeks to always be a child safe organization through fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and to improve the living standards of the child.


Position: ICCM Project Officer Lahj


Location: Aden/Lahj Office


Grade: 4b


Contract Length: till Dec 2024 (with a possibility of renewal)


The Opportunity:


Under supervision of health and nutrition program officer, the ICCM officer will be a crucial part of a team responsible and accountable for ensuring the implementation of SCI ICCM activities related to health and nutrition program, plan and monitor community health and nutrition activities with close supervision for ICCM community health volunteers, lead the team to respond to the need of the community after carful assessment for what is need by the community. 


KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:


Selection of Community Health volunteers


  • Participate in conducting community mobilization meetings for the selection of community volunteers
  • Work closely with community mobilizer Officers in conducting the community level meetings at which the community volunteers will be selected.

Training of Community volunteers 


  • Participate with technical guidance of the program officers in the training of the community volunteers.
  • Ensure that the community volunteers assess, classify and treat malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhoea correctly. 
  • Assess the competency of community volunteers in treating the 3 diseases. 
  • Provide feedback on performance to the community volunteers in a constructive way.
  • Provide on job training to community volunteers to address identified problems during supportive supervision visits.

Supervision of the Community volunteers at the community level.


  • Prepare a plan and conduct bi-monthly supervision plan.
  • Identify and document any challenges faced by community volunteers during the supervision visits.
  • Manage any such challenges identified, with the community volunteers during supervision.
  • Forecast and supply medicines and supplies to community volunteers based on previous month consumption levels to ensure that the the community volunteers have adequate stocks to last until the next round of supervision.
  • Conduct monthly meetings with all community volunteers of his/her catchment area.

Report


  • Report all ICCM activities and total reach to the health program/HMIS officer according to the agreed format.
  • Make sure the quality of the data reported by CHVs  through regular verification of the data
  • To participate in developing Community volunteer guidelines in accordance with Ministry of health policy.
  • Document and share lesson learnt, achievements and successes from the field.
  • To collect the monthly reports from community health volunteers, revise it and give feed back to the field team. 
  • Develop monthly narrative achievement report compiled with statistic report to the direct supervisor.
  • To conduct monthly meeting with community health volunteers to discuss all related issues and to put plan for the coming period.

To take any other relevant task given by the supervisor.    


QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:



Qualified public health professional with experience in developing public and primary health care.


  • Extensive work experience in Social work with focus on community development and mobilization.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, including patience, Diplomacy, Capability to create strong relationship between among all teams’ members.
  • Strong presentation and computer skills in MS word and excel.
  • Self motivated.

Strong training facilitation.


Application Information:


Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.  A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers/apply.


  “Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer. Women are strongly encouraged to apply



تاريخ النشر: ٦ سبتمبر ٢٠٢٤
الناشر: Bayt
تاريخ النشر: ٦ سبتمبر ٢٠٢٤
الناشر: Bayt