Job Description
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.
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: Integrated community case management Project Officer
Location: Taiz
Grade: 4b
Contract Length: till December (with possibility to 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 diarrhea 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.
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 others to do the same
- Widely shares their personal 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, 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
- Commitment to Save the Children Values
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.
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.