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 their living standards of the child.

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Position: Health and Nutrition Project Officer

Location: Hodiedah

Grade: 4b

Contract Length: As per the budget

The Opportunity:

Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Health and Nutrition Coordinator, the Health and Nutrition Project officer will support the daily operational management of all components of primary healthcare activities in the assigned region, and provide technical support for the health and nutrition team, ensure timely flow of information to and from the field, This position is also responsible to monitor and evaluate health and nutrition services delivery according to national protocol. Besides the provision of technical support, training, and capacity building, representation of the program in the external meeting, coordination with MOPHP, supervision of the whole project, and report writing.

Key Areas of Responsibilities: 

Program planning, supervision and monitoring:

• Ensure that clinical protocols are accessible to medical staff in the field and support the team and adhered with them.
• Oversee/conduct assessments as needed in the health facilities and communities in coordination with the MOPHP/ GHO;
• Supervise comprehensive training programs for health and nutrition HWs in CMAM / IYCF, IMCI, RH and   EPI, as well as CHWs and maintain a record of all trainings conducted;
• Ensure treatment protocols for SAM and MAM cases are followed and understood at the HFs
• Supervise primary health care activities at HFs and screening of children 6-59 months at targeted areas and referral of needed malnourished cases and life saving cases to the nearest hospitals and general supervision for all nutrition programs in targetd districts, with overall technical guidance of nutrition team;
• Ensure referral mechanisms are in place (between SC/OTP/TSFP/IYCF Corners)
• With Pharmacist officer support, prepare procurement plan for medical items and process it after getting the approval from senior managers.
• Assist the logistics department in procurement of drug/medical supply/medical equipment by providing specification for requested items and follow up and cooperate with financial/ logistic requirements. 
• Ensure proper management of pharmaceuticals, other medical supplies and nutritional stock and follow up stock movement and stock cards and consumption rate, moreover, ensure quality of warehouse management at HFs.
• Establish mother to mother support group for promotion of IYCF practices and provide continuous on the job training and support.
• Ensure all staff understand and implement program guidelines used for CMAMA protocols and for assessing the mother-child pair, advising the best feeding option and following up as appropriate.
• Ensure appropriate and consistent education messaging to mothers and other carer at OTP/TSFP and in the community.
• Provide regular supervision and technical support for health facilities including data collection/records of beneficiaries and program activities, as well as timely implementation and reaching targets according to the program objectives to ensure safe, effective delivery of health care to target population.
• Ensure submition of weekly and monthly progress report of health and nutrition activities and submit report on time and work with health information system officer to ensure that production statistic is collected, compiled and reported to senior managers.
• Ensure a system for monitoring and evaluation of staff's performance is in place and adhered with, as well as, conduct field visits to all sites of intervention including joint supervision visits with GHO/DHO and  provide recommendations to be discussed with senior managers and implement the action points.
• Facilitate periodical review meeting with HWs, CHWs and key community groups to discuss on key nutrition practices;and provide technical support & advise to community volunteers, teachers and other key community groups in order to promote recommended nutrition practices.
• Provide data, case studies and success stories to enrich reports for both internal and external use.
• Ensure that appropriate staffing levels are in place and provide regular support, supervision and implementation of other staff management processes including staff performance management;
• Ensure that staff responsibilities are clearly defined and understood with performance objectives set against work plans and regularly monitored.
•  Ensure that staff requirements are identified and that staff are given every opportunity to increase their competencies, capacities and own personnel development.
• Ensure a mechanism in place to monitor and evaluate clinical health & nutrition services. 
• Representation of SC at nutrition and other joint agency and government meetings. 
• Attend weekly meeting with other health & nutrition team, and Perform other duties requested by his line manager.
• Supervise the implementation of PHC activities at field (treatment of communicable diseases, EPI, RH, ORT, etc.)

To take any other relevant tasks given by the supervisor.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling 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 own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, 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; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

QUALIFICATIONS 

Bachelor in medicin or equivalent; (nursing/medical qualification desirable).

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• At last 2-3 years experience in health management or supervisory position.
• Excellent computer skills including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Fluent in written and spoken English and Arabic languages
• Proven ability to manage a program including management of human and material resources. 
• Experience in staff training and capacity building 
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels, taking into account cultural and language difficulties.
• Training on CMAM and IYCF is required
• Ability to work cooperatively and strategically in a team environment with all levels of professional, technical and administrative staff and to integrate resources on a timely and organized basis.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting monitoring and evaluation activities. 

Flexible, adaptable, able to improvise and work in a stressful, volatile environment.

Equal Opportunities 

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

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.

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

About Us

The Organization

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.