Job description

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 realise 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 a 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 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.

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Position: Health and Nutrition Community Mobilization Officer (National only)

 Location: Taiz

Contract Length: 4 Months (Renewable)

Grade: 4

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.

SCOPE OF ROLE

Reports to: Health and Nutrition Project Officer

Staff directly reporting to this Post:  Health and Nutrition Community Mobilization Assistant 

Budget responsibility: NO.

Key Areas of Responsibilities:

  Selection of Community volunteers (CHNVs, MTMSG leaders, and iCCM 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 ICCM community volunteers assess, classify and treat malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhoea correctly. 
  • Train the MTMSG and CHNVs.
  • 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 CHNVs, MTMSG, and ICCM activities and total reach to the health program/Project Information Management 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.   
  • Embed counter-fraud and ethical controls in all operational processes, ensuring compliance with donor and legal requirements, while collaborating with Finance and Counter-Fraud teams to mitigate risks and conduct assessments for high-value programs

Qualification , Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery , Public Health , Nutrition , Midwifery , Nursing or any equivalent field with experience in developing public and primary health care, and experience in managing the community volunteers for at least 3 years.
  • 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.

Additional job responsibilities:

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.  

  Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom Save the Children is in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation. Any violations of this policy will be treated as a serious issue.  

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.  

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 

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