Public Health and Nutrition Officer Full Time

TEAM/PROGRAMME:  Scaling Up Anticipatory Actions for Drought Hazard Management in Legehida and Sewan woredas of Oromia Region, Ethiopia

GRADE: 4A

CONTRACT LENGTH: 6 months 

LOCATION:  Sawena and Legahida woredas of East Bale zone

Post Type: National

CHILD SAFEGUARDING: 

Level 3:  the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; ore because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:  

Public Health and nutrition officer support by enhancing the preparedness and resilience of the nutrition sector and the affected communities to cope with and respond to potential shocks and emergencies, such as droughts, floods, conflicts, and disease outbreaks. The post holder support implementation of priority anticipatory nutrition actions to mitigate the impact of foreseeable crises and reduce humanitarian needs and costs for nutrition. The post holder will support Nutrition interventions that can be implemented through anticipatory action framework like community mobilization activities to enhance nutritional screening, Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E) SBCC intervention to promote, support and protect infant and young child feeding behaviors and practices. Technical support provided to local health care work force and communities to build more resilient local health and nutrition systems and ensure that vulnerable populations have access to the essential nutrition services, and to enhance the capacity of health facilities to diagnose, treat, and prevent malnutrition, through community-based interventions, before the situation deteriorates, saving lives and reducing suffering. Strengthening of surveillance system, Establish/strengthening of RRT and closely works with other thematic sectors like WaSH and livelihood.

Reports to: Health, Nutrition and WaSH Thematic Program Manager. 

Dimensions:

Number of direct reports: No

JOB SPECIFIC ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Support Woreda Health office and PHCU in anticipatory Health and nutrition activities.
• Coordinate health and nutrition response team in assigned woreda with excellent liaise with primary health care unit directorate.
• Ensure all project materials are supplied to PHCU and in place whenever during service provision.
• Responsible for establishing and leading an effective anticipatory health and nutrition team in assigned woreda.
• Responsible for multi-sectoral initial rapid assessment data collection and analysis when needed.
• Responsible to represent and advocate key project deliverables and outcome brought by the organization in assigned woreda.
• Responsible to ensure the quality of Maternal and child health at Health facilities as per guidelines
• Responsible for preparing project detail implementation plan and procurement plan.
• Prepare terms of reference (TOR), organize and facilitate training, review meeting and draw best lessons/practice.
• Ensure key accountability issues addressed during the implementation of project deliverables.
• Improving basic preventive health care at community level with emphasis health, immunization, and health and nutrition services.
• Support in Conducting & undertaking PHC on MCH, consultation & provide proper treatment based on the protocol.
• Strengthening of linkages and coordination mechanisms between community and the woreda health bureaus.
• Plan and implement project outlined in the protocol for OTP and SC to achieve objectives of the project.
• Will help facilitate admission of the patient at the OTP, and SC, TSFP
• Ensure each admitted child receives adequate and quality clinical and nutritional care through existing resources.
• Ensure at all times adequately equipped and supplied with the necessary nutritional and clinical requirements – Plumpy’nut, Vitamin A, routine drugs, nutritional equipment, nutritional/medical stationeries, etc.
• Assisting the planning and promotion of awareness creation on nutrition and preventative health care issues in the community.
• Capacitate Health Extension workers’ competency in delivering compressive primary health care service at the health post.
• Leading project team to use the organization’s properties like vehicles effectively and efficiently.
• Closely work with other sector staff (WaSH and FSL)
• Closely work with LIP ERCS on the project progress and report
• Perform other extra duties as required
• Report any problems in a timely manner to the program manager

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and SCI Filed Offices 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 his/herself, takes responsibility for his or her own 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