Save the Children
Vacancy: RMNH Programme Manager(Reproductive
Maternal & Newborn Health Manager) – Kenya Country Office
Reference Code:RMNH /WAJ/MAN/SCI
Location: Full
time in Wajir County with frequent travels to Mandera and Nairobi for meetings
Grade: 2
Post Type: National
Child Safeguarding: Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may
require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or
young people
Role Purpose: The Public Health (RMNH) Technical Specialist will be expected to lead and manage three Save the Children’s (SC) projects:
Role Purpose: The Public Health (RMNH) Technical Specialist will be expected to lead and manage three Save the Children’s (SC) projects:
1) the innovative ESHE/DFID FP
Partnership project, a DFID-funded consortium of 6 organizations covering
Mandera and Wajir Counties;
2) the UKAid Match funded maternal
and new-born Signature Health Programme in Wajir; and
3) the GSK funded MNH programme.
SC will foster community engagement
and mobilisation for social change in the highly-conservative Wajir and Mandera
Counties of the former North Eastern province.
SC will support CHWs, peer groups and
religious leaders to help address social barriers in schools, local madrasas,
and with youth and women’s groups to encourage young people and their families
to discuss RMNH issues including contraception and fertility.
SC will work to address demand side
factors and hindrances to access for RMNH-FP while creating an enabling
environment for RMNH-FP services through all three projects.
S/He will work in collaboration with
existing County Department of Health (especially the Reproductive Health,
Nursing Officer and community health strategy units) and the SCHMT as well as
in close collaboration with other consortium members to leverage on their
expertise and ensure that the counties of Wajir (and Mandera – for ESHE)
benefits from the other result areas of the project.
Scope of Role:
Reports to: Area Programme Manager operationally with close technical relationship to Health Advisor, Head of Child Survival, ESHE Technical Director and the Signature Health Senior Programme Manager.
Liaises with APM – Mandera to ensure smooth delivery of ESHE
work in Mandera and to oversee Mandera-based PC-RH.
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Current programming focuses on child
protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods,
nutrition and WASH.
In 2012, as part of a global
reorganization process, Save the Children combined the programmes of SC UK, SC
Canada and SC Finland to create a single operation in Kenya.
In Feb 2014, we completed a second
transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge
their health and nutrition programmes with our own.
Save the Children now has an
operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana
and Wajir and we work through partners in many other parts of the
country.
We employ nearly 300 staff and will
have an operating annual budget in 2015 of approximately US$20-25 million.
Staff directly reporting to this post: TBC
Key Areas of Accountability:
General management of the program activities and strategy:
Staff directly reporting to this post: TBC
Key Areas of Accountability:
General management of the program activities and strategy:
- Providing technical leadership and managerial
oversight to ESHE (DIFPARK) Family Planning programme in both Wajir and
Mandera Counties,
- the GSK-funded Maternal and Newborn health
(MNH) programme and the UK Aid match funded MNH programme in Wajir County
- Ensuring effective intergration across all
programmes for synergy and quality outcomes
- Engaging donors, partners and SCUK member
staff at various levels to ensure smooth operations of grants
- Line management responsibility for programme
staff in all three programmes spread across 6 sub-Counties of Wajir and 5
sub-Counties of Mandera County
- Reviewing and submitting donor reports,
ensuring timeliness, completeness and technical standards
- Ensures technical support for the County
Department of Health teams (including CHWs) for the implementation of the
action research component of the health programme.
- Ensures technical support to the SCHMT in
health systems strengthening especially for health service delivery at
facility level, supply of commodities and HMIS.
- Monitors and ensures that the technical
protocols, manuals, guidelines and forms used in the field are in line
with validated national RMNCH/FP technical tools and guidelines.
- Provide technical support to the field teams
and technical updates when available and is available for solving any
problem arising in the field.
- Analyzes the program activities and results
using internationally validated indicators (as is in the log frame) and
monitors the programme evolution and together with the Health Advisor and
SP PM re-orients programs if needed.
- Ensures a consistent response and approach to
the programme needs, thus creating credibility of Save the Children
actions.
- Field –manages any sub-contractors conducting
action research.
- Ensures frequent visits to the field, with
visits to the program activities at community level for each field visit,
and provides formal visit feedback via Field Visit Reports.
Coordination
- Participates and represents SC in various
health technical forums and at the ESHE and MNH consortium working
meetings with partners at Nairobi and field level when necessary.
- Ensures that the technical parts of project
cooperation agreements and MoUs with authorities, partners and other
organizations are consistent between all the area offices and shares with
the Health Advisor/ Head of Child Survival for validation.
- Ensure good working relationships maintained
with the government authorities including the County Health management
team and the various DHMTs.
Strategy Development & Reporting
- Develops program donor reports (quarterly,
final reports), with respect of the technical formats and deadlines.
- Prepares monthly technical activity reports
(compilation of the activities in the area offices) with a qualitative
look.
- Oversees documentation and sharing of lessons
learnt and evidence to support development of other RMNCH/FP projects.
- Works closely with the Health Advisor in
program strategy and protocols development and development of proposals
Communication
- Communicates regularly with the program and
consortium teams for follow up, troubleshooting and technical and
strategic advice.
- Communicates with the logistics and
administration departments in order to have a good follow up of respective
departments (supply requests, stocks, pharmacy, etc. and budget and
expense follow ups) and solve problems as they arise.
- Communicates externally with the other
organizations and authorities on a regular basis.
Advocacy
- Work with MEAL team to document and
disseminate best practices and lessons learnt from various innovative
health programs.
- Actively participate in advocacy initiatives
and dissemination of action research findings at the County level to
influence policy.
Competencies (our Values in Practice)
- Leading and inspiring others:
Demonstrates leadership in all our work, role models our values, and
articulates a compelling vision to inspire others to achieve our goals for
children.
- Innovating and adapting: Develops and
implements innovative solutions to adapt and succeed in an ever-changing,
uncertain work and global environment.
- Applying technical and professional expertise:
Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest
standards; promotes and shares best practice within and outside the
organization.
- Communicating with impact: Communicates
clearly and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes
dialogue and ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence
and trust with others.
- Networking: Builds and uses sustainable
relationships and networks to support the work of Save the Children.
SCI Values: Accountability,
Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity, Integrity:
Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications and Experience
- Public Health (Nurse, Public Health, Medical
Doctor) professional with postgraduate qualification. Equivalent
field experience may be considered in lieu of post graduate qualification
- Minimum six (6) years’ experience in RMNH/FP
programmes
- Understanding of operations/ action research
desirable
- Proven experience in project cycle management
and managing a team including performance management and coaching.
- Experience working with the Ministry of
Health. Experience working with partners in a consortium is desirable.
- Experience of and commitment to working
through systems of community participation and accountability for social
change desirable
- Practical experience and understanding of the
community health strategy
- Experience of training and capacity building
staff
- In-depth knowledge of social determinants of
health and health inequality and health advocacy
- Culturally sensitive with qualities of
patience, tact and diplomacy
- Commitment to fully adhere to SCI Child
Safeguarding Policy
Vacancy:Programme Coordinator - Reproductive Health
Reference Code:RH/MDR/COR/SCI
Team / Programme:Programmes (ESHE/DFID FP Partnership)
Location: Mandera
County
Grade: 3
Post Type: National
(1 year contract with possibility of extension)
Child Safeguarding: Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may
require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or
young people
Role Purpose: SCI Kenya is in the process of implementing the
second phase of ESHE, an innovative Family Planning programme that seeks to
tackle deep rooted barriers to family planning demand, access and uptake by
creating an enabling environment for FP practices in northeast Kenya.
Utilizing social change, empowerment,
behaviour change and institutional strengthening approaches, the programme is
expected to significantly contribute to sustained universal access to FP as
part of a DFID supported consortium of partners present across 24 Counties in
Kenya.
The programmatic model will work through
community health systems and other tiers of healthcare to gain the support of
communities, community opinion leaders and County Health Managers to promote FP
services, particularly for poor rural woman.
This programming across Save the
Children’s Theory of Change will ensure healthy mothers and healthy baby
outcomes by the end of 2017.
Scope of Role: This
job will play a critical role in ensuring effective community mobilisation and
participation strategies in the Family Planning (ESHE) programme in
Mandera.
The Coordinator is accountable for
providing technical support and assistance to the programme in the planning,
execution, and monitoring of community mobilisation for behaviour and social
change for improved community RH practices in addition to supporting the County
Department of Health’s actions (including CHMT and SCHMT) to improve health
facility-based FP services.
H/She may line-manage programme
officers, will be expected to exercise proper budget management and is
available to lead-manage the RMNCH portfolio in the field office in the absence
of the Programme Manager.
The job holder may be called upon to
represent Save the Children at consortium planning meetings and other forums.
Dimension: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Dimension: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Current programming focuses on child
protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods,
nutrition and WASH.
In 2012, as part of a global
reorganization process, Save the Children combined the programmes of SC UK, SC
Canada and SC Finland to create a single operation in Kenya.
In Feb 2014, we completed a second
transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge
their health and nutrition programmes with our own.
Save the Children now has an
operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana
and Wajir and we work through partners in many other parts of the
country.
We employ nearly 300 staff and will
have an operating annual budget in 2015 of approximately US$20-25 million.
Staff directly reporting to this
post: none
Key Areas of Accountability:
Support to Programme Delivery
Key Areas of Accountability:
Support to Programme Delivery
- Provide technical support for the
implementation of the community engagement and social change aspect of the
ESHE FP Programme, including training, materials adaptation and monitoring
of outcomes.
- Work with the RMNCH manager, Community
Liaisons and the Health Technical Advisor in the management and roll out
of the programme’s community engagement strategy, plan of action and
activities for strategic communication and promotion for social and
behavioural change.
- Provide effective coordination and technical
support to County government counterparts and other partners in community
health strategy, reproductive health and community mobilization for social
change
- Explore and leverage media reach to
strategically communicate messages on FP with effective monitoring to
reach target audiences/population segments.
- Support the field officers in identification
and training of community mobilisation and participation core teams and
facilitators from the community.
- Provide support and assistance in the
development, pre-testing and production of culturally relevant
communication materials to ensure effective and efficient programme
delivery including facilitating behavioural change where necessary.
- Ensure adequate management of delegated budget
authority, and work across sections to ensure adequate support to
programme implementation from Finance, HR, Logisitics etc
Partnerships for Social Change
- Develop partnerships with religious leaders,
politicians, women’s groups, and close-to-community health providers,
health care workers, community health committees and other organised
groups to orient them on the programme approach, and to secure their
involvement in programme implementation
- Develop close collaboration with various
professional groups and non-governmental organisations active in community
health strategy and FP to facilitate cross organisational learning and
build FP alliances.
- Ensure effective integration with other
programmes implemented in the area office
- Provide effective coordination and technical
support to county government counterparts and other partners in community
engagement and communication for social change
- Represent Save the Children in county and
national fora to share good practice and ensure the achievement of
advocacy, programme and policy objectives.
Monitoring, evaluation,
accountability and learning (MEAL)
- Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation,
Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team to ensure effective monitoring and
evaluation of programme activities including preparation of monitoring
reports and documentation of lessons learned.
- Supports the development and implementation of
an accountability mechanism for ESHE in Mandera
- Carry out regular field monitoring of
programme interventions and action points
- Provides technical advice to programme staff,
consortium staff, government officials and partners to coordinate and
manage the evaluative elements of social change and community engagement
TWG milestone meetings, such as mid-term reviews, strategy meetings,
previews and reviews and annual reviews.
Key Competencies (our Values in
Practice)
- Delivering results: Takes personal
responsibility and holds others to account to deliver our ambitious Goals
for children, continually improving own performance or that of the team/
organization.
- Problem solving and decision making: Takes
effective, considered and timely decisions by gathering and evaluating
relevant information from within or outside the organization and making
appropriate judgements.
- Applying technical and professional expertise:
Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest
standards; promotes and shares best practice within and outside the
organization.
- Communicating with impact: Communicates
clearly and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes
dialogue and ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence
and trust with others.
- Networking: Builds and uses sustainable
relationships and networks to support the work of Save the Children.
SCI Values: Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity, Accountability
and Integrity
Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications and Experience
- A University degree in Public Health or Social
science related field with emphasis on Health Communication, Health
Promotion, Community and Social mobilization.
- Minimum four (4) years relevant mix of
professional work experience in community health, community development,
and family planning programmes.
- Experience in mobilizing communities for
health and development in Northern Kenya an added advantage.
- Experience working with the Kenya Community
Health Strategy
- Demonstrable commitment to tackling social
determinants of health and health inequalities, with a strong focus on
equity in health and development, ensuring right of access to health for
the poorest and marginalized
- Background driving health advocacy and social
change processes and outcomes
Important: Must be willing to abide fully by Save the
Children Child Safeguarding Policy.
Vacancy:Programme Officer - Community Health and Communication - Kenya Country Officer
2 Positions
Reference Code:PO/WAJ/CHC/SCI
Team / Programme: Programmes
(UK Aid Match MNH)
Location: Wajir
County
Grade: 4
Post Type: National
Child Safeguarding: Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may
require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or
young people
Role Purpose: SCI Kenya is rolling out a three (3) year Maternal
and Newborn health (MNH) programme in Wajir.
The programme is funded by UK Aid and
is expectedly to increase demand for and utilisation of quality maternal and
newborn health (MNH) services among pregnant women and new-borns leading to
reduction in associated morbidity and mortality in Wajir County. It will
directly benefit women, new-borns, and marginalised communities in target
Counties.
The project will also empower
communities to proactively address MNH issues and to demand increased
government commitment for equitable delivery of quality health services.
The holder of this position will be
core to ensuring delivery of a robust community MNH component backed by
strategic health communication to influence behaviours and change the society
to adopt better MNH practices.
Scope of Role: This
job will play a critical role in ensuring effective community mobilisation in
the MNH programme.
The officer is accountable for
providing technical support and assistance to the programme and County Health
team in the planning, execution, and monitoring of community health strategy
for behaviour change for improved community MNH practices.
H/She works closely with C/SPHOs and
CHEWS (CHAs) and other programme officers under the general guidance of the
Programme Coordinator.
The HC&CH Officer is further
expected to design, test and deploy health communication strategies to support
all pillars of the MNH programme including health advocacy at grassroots and
other levels.
Dimension: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Dimension: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Current programming focuses on child
protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods,
nutrition and WASH.
In 2012, as part of a global
reorganization process, Save the Children combined the programmes of SC UK, SC
Canada and SC Finland to create a single operation in Kenya.
In Feb 2014, we completed a second
transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge
their health and nutrition programmes with our own.
Save the Children now has an
operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana
and Wajir and we work through partners in many other parts of the
country.
We employ nearly 300 staff and will
have an operating annual budget in 2015 of approximately US$20-25 million.
Staff directly reporting to this post: none
Key Areas of Accountability:
Staff directly reporting to this post: none
Key Areas of Accountability:
Support to Programme Delivery
- Effectively deliver community-based maternal
and newborn health aspects of programme intervention in synergy with the
facility-based aspects to address the demand side causes of poor
maternal and newborn health in Wajir Provide effective technical support
to county government counterparts and other partners in community health
strategy for maternal and new-born health and health communication for
social and behaviour change
- Planning and implementation of program
activities including community engagement and mobilization and social
dialogue
- Organizing and rolling out training and
capacity building initiatives for community resource persons including
community health volunteers, Muslim religious leaders, mother to mother
support groups and facility health workers
- Champion innovative initiatives for
community-based maternal and newborn health using the MoH’s revised community
strategy and the community maternal and newborn health strategy.
Partnerships for MNH
- Maintain partnerships with religious leaders,
politicians, women’s groups, and close-to-community health providers,
health care workers, community health committees and other organised
groups to orient and continuously involve them in programme implementation
- Ensure close collaboration with various
professional groups and non-governmental organisations active in community
health strategy and MNH to facilitate learning and model best practice.
- Foster partnerships with other programmes
including ESHE-FP and Nutrition for an integrated approach to
community-based MNH
- Provide on-going support to county government
counterparts and other partners in community engagement and communication
for behaviour and social change
Monitoring, evaluation,
accountability and learning (MEAL)
- Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation,
Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team to ensure effective monitoring and
evaluation of programme activities including preparation of monitoring
reports and mainstreaming accountability mechanisms.
- Jointly conducting regular site monitoring
visits to ensure quality programme implementation
- Developing and sharing periodic project
reports including trip reports, distribution reports, activity reports,
weekly reports, monthly and quarterly donor reports
- Ensure effective documentation of case
studies, success stories or human interest stories
Key Competencies (our Values in
Practice)
- Delivering results: Takes personal
responsibility and holds others to account to deliver our ambitious Goals
for children, continually improving own performance or that of the team/
organization.
- Problem solving and decision making: Takes
effective, considered and timely decisions by gathering and evaluating
relevant information from within or outside the organization and making
appropriate judgements.
- Applying technical and professional expertise:
Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest
standards; promotes and shares best practice within and outside the
organization.
- Communicating with impact: Communicates
clearly and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes
dialogue and ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence
and trust with others.
- Working effectively with others: Works
collaboratively to achieve shared goals and thrives on diversity of people
and perspectives. Knows when to lead and when to follow and how to ensure
effective cross-boundary working
SCI Values: Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity, Accountability
and Integrity
Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications and Experience
- A University degree in Public Health,
Community Health or related field with strong Health Communication, Health
Promotion, Community and Social mobilization exposure.
- Minimum two (2) years post-training relevant
mix of professional work experience in community health, community
development and maternal and child health programmes.
- Experience in mobilizing communities for
health and development in the Arid and Semi Arid Lands of Kenya is an
added advantage.
- Proven experience working with the Kenya
Community Health Strategy
- Demonstrable commitment to tackling social
determinants of health and health inequalities, with a strong focus on
equity in health and development, ensuring right of access to health for
the poorest and marginalized
Important: Must be willing to abide fully by Save the
Children Child Safeguarding Policy.
Vacancy:Programme Officer - Maternal and Newborn Health
Reference Code: MNH/WAJ/OFF/SCI
Team / Programme:Programmes (Health Signature)
Location: Wajir
County
Grade: 2
Post Type: National
Child Safeguarding: Level
3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have
regular contact with or access to children or young people
Role Purpose: SCI
Kenya is rolling out a three (3) year Maternal and Newborn health (MNH)
programme in Wajir. The programme is funded by UKAid and is expectedly to
increase demand for and utilisation of quality maternal and newborn health
(MNH) services among pregnant women and new-borns leading to reduction in
associated morbidity and mortality in Wajir County.
It will directly benefit women,
new-borns and marginalised communities in target Counties.
The project will also empower
communities to proactively address MNH issues and to demand increased
government commitment for equitable delivery of quality health
services.
The holder of this position will be
core to ensuring delivery of quality facility-based MNH components.
Scope of Role: This job will play a critical role in ensuring effective mobilisation in the MNH programme.
The officer is accountable for
providing technical support and assistance to the programme and County Health
team in the planning, execution, and monitoring of facility-based (clinical
aspects) MNH for improved practices.
H/She works closely with C/SNOs and
facility in-charges and other programme officers under the general guidance of
the Programme Coordinator.
The MNH Officer is further expected
to design, test and deploy OJT and capacity development strategies to support
all pillars of the MNH programme including health advocacy at health facility,
sub-County Primary Care facilities and County Referral Hospital levels.
Staff directly reporting to this post: none
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Staff directly reporting to this post: none
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Current programming focuses on child
protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods,
nutrition and WASH.
In 2012, as part of a global
reorganization process, Save the Children combined the programmes of SC UK, SC
Canada and SC Finland to create a single operation in Kenya.
In Feb 2014, we completed a second
transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge
their health and nutrition programmes with our own.
Save the Children now has an
operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana
and Wajir and we work through partners in many other parts of the
country.
We employ nearly 300 staff and will
have an operating annual budget in 2015 of approximately US$20-25 million.
Key Areas of Accountability:
Support to Programme Delivery
Key Areas of Accountability:
Support to Programme Delivery
- Effectively support the delivery of the
facility aspects of maternal and newborn health of programme intervention
in synergy with the community-based aspects to address the major
underlying causes of poor maternal and newborn health in Wajir namely low
demand by households and a weak health facility systems and processes for
maternal and newborn care
- Provide effective technical support to
facility health workers from county government counterparts and other
partners in maternal and newborn health
- Planning and implementation of program
activities including community engagement and mobilization and social
dialogue
- Organizing and rolling out training and
capacity building initiatives for health workers including the Harmonised
EMONC curriculum and MPDSR
- Work with the county and sub county HMTs to
institute quality of care mechanisms within the supported health
facilities.
- Champion innovative initiatives for
facility-based maternal and newborn health services including assessment and
procurement support of material and equipment for essential newborn health
and emergency obstetric care
Partnerships for MNH
- Ensure close collaboration with various
professional groups and non-governmental organisations active in MNH to
facilitate learning and model best practice.
- Foster partnerships with other programmes
including ESHE-FP and Nutrition for an integrated approach to MNH
- Ensure effective integration with GSK MNH
grant in areas of geographical overlap
- Provide on-going support to county government
counterparts and other partners in OJT and capacity development of health
workers on essential maternal and newborn health practices
Monitoring, evaluation,
accountability and learning (MEAL)
- Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation,
Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team to ensure effective monitoring and
evaluation of programme activities including preparation of monitoring
reports and mainstreaming accountability mechanisms.
- Jointly conducting regular site monitoring
visits to ensure quality programme implementation
- Developing and sharing periodic project
reports including trip reports, distribution reports, activity reports,
weekly reports, monthly and quarterly donor reports
- Ensure effective documentation of case
studies, success stories or human interest stories
Key Competencies (our Values in
Practice)
- Delivering results: Takes personal
responsibility and holds others to account to deliver our ambitious
Goals for children, continually improving own performance or that of the
team/ organization.
- Problem solving and decision making: Takes
effective, considered and timely decisions by gathering and evaluating
relevant information from within or outside the organization and making
appropriate judgements.
- Applying technical and professional expertise:
Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest
standards; promotes and shares best practice within and outside the
organization.
- Communicating with impact: Communicates
clearly and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes
dialogue and ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence
and trust with others.
- Working effectively with others: Works
collaboratively to achieve shared goals and thrives on diversity of people
and perspectives. Knows when to lead and when to follow and how to ensure
effective cross-boundary working
- SCI Values: Ambition, Collaboration,
Creativity, Accountability and Integrity
Qualifications and Experience
- A registered Nurse with a Bachelor of Science
Degree in Nursing or Diploma in a related field (Nursing, Midwifery)
- Minimum three (3) years post-training relevant
mix of professional work experience maternal and child health programming
with proven experience implementing facility based maternal and child
health interventions through a health system strengthening approach.
- Experience in working within the Arid and
Semi-Arid Regions of Kenys is an added advantage
- Experience working with the MoH is an added
advantage
- Demonstrable ability in carrying out on-job
training and capacity building support to facility midwives
Important: Must be willing to abide fully by Save the
Children Child Safeguarding Policy.
Vacancy:Programme Coordinator - Maternal Newborn Health
Reference Code: MNH/WAJ/CORD/SCI
Team / Programme: Progarammes
Location: Wajir
County
Grade: 3
Post Type: National
Child Safeguarding: Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may
require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or
young people
Role Purpose: SCI Kenya is rolling out a three (3) year Maternal
and Newborn health (MNH) programme in Wajir.
The programme is funded by UK Aid and
is expectedly to increase demand for and utilisation of quality maternal and
newborn health (MNH) services among pregnant women and new-borns leading to
reduction in associated morbidity and mortality in Wajir County.
It will directly benefit women,
new-borns, and marginalised communities in target Counties.
The project will also empower
communities to proactively address MNH issues and to demand increased
government commitment for equitable delivery of quality health
services.
The holder of this position will be
core to ensuring delivery of an integrated, holistic MNH programme with a
County-wide reach in Wajir.
Hence, the job holder must
effectively engender universal health coverage within the context of sustained
development in Wajir County utilizing a variety of approaches, models and
strategies for optimal health outcomes for mothers and babies within families
and communities.
Scope of Role: This
job aims to play a critical role in ensuring effective community mobilisation
and participation strategies in the MNH programme.
The Coordinator is accountable for
providing technical support and assistance to the programme team in the planning,
execution, and monitoring of community mobilisation for behaviour and social
change for improved community MNH practices in addition to supporting the
County Department of Health’s actions to improve health facility-based maternal
and new-born health practices.
H/She line manages programme
officers, exercises proper budget management and is available to lead-manage
the MNH portfolio in the area office in the absence of the RMNCH Programme
Manager.
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Current programming focuses on child
protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods,
nutrition and WASH.
In 2012, as part of a global
reorganization process, Save the Children combined the programmes of SC UK, SC
Canada and SC Finland to create a single operation in Kenya.
In Feb 2014, we completed a second transition,
which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge their health
and nutrition programmes with our own.
Save the Children now has an
operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana
and Wajir and we work through partners in many other parts of the
country.
We employ nearly 300 staff and will
have an operating annual budget in 2015 of approximately US$20-25 million.
Staff directly reporting to this post: none
Key Areas of Accountability:
Support to Programme Delivery
Staff directly reporting to this post: none
Key Areas of Accountability:
Support to Programme Delivery
- Effectively coordinate community health and
facility-based aspects of programme intervention for synergy and to
address the major underlying causes of poor maternal and newborn health in
Wajir namely low demand by households, inadequate capacity of health
systems and a weak enabling environment for MNH including emergency
obstetric care
- Provide effective technical support to county
government counterparts and other partners in community health strategy,
maternal and new-born health and communication for social change
- Represent Save the Children in fora to share
good practice and ensure the achievement of advocacy and policy
objectives.
- Planning and implementation of program
activities including community engagement and mobilization and social
dialogue
- Organizing and coordinating training and
capacity building initiatives for community resource persons including
community health volunteers, Muslim religious leaders, mother to mother
support groups and facility health workers
- Ensure adequate management of delegated budget
authority, and work across sections to ensure adequate support to
programme implementation from Finance, HR, Logisitics etc
- Organizing and coordinating training and
capacity building initiatives for different groups and community health
workers to reduce maternal and new-born death rates
- Champion innovative initiatives for maternal
and newborn health and in community strategy
Partnerships for MNH
- Develop partnerships with religious leaders,
politicians, women’s groups, and close-to-community health providers,
health care workers, community health committees and other organised
groups to orient and continuously involve them in programme implementation
- Develop close collaboration with various
professional groups and non-governmental organisations active in community
health strategy and MNH to facilitate learning and model best practice.
- Foster partnerships with other programmes
including ESHE-FP and Nutrition for an integrated approach to MNH
- Provide on-going support to county government
counterparts and other partners in community engagement and communication
for behaviour and social change
Monitoring, evaluation,
accountability and learning (MEAL)
- Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation,
Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team to ensure effective monitoring and
evaluation of programme activities including preparation of monitoring
reports and mainstreaming accountability mechanisms.
- Conducting regular field monitoring visits to
ensure quality programme implementation
- Reviewing and sharing periodic project reports
including trip reports, distribution reports, activity reports, weekly
reports, monthly and quarterly donor reports
- Lead and ensure documentation and sharing of
case studies, success stories or human interest stories
Key Competencies (our Values in
Practice)
- Delivering results: Takes personal
responsibility and holds others to account to deliver our ambitious
- Goals for children, continually improving own
performance or that of the team/ organization.
- Problem solving and decision making: Takes
effective, considered and timely decisions by gathering and evaluating
relevant information from within or outside the organization and making
appropriate judgments.
- Applying technical and professional expertise:
Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest
standards; promotes and shares best practice within and outside the
Organization.
- Communicating with impact: Communicates
clearly and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes
dialogue and ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence
andTrust with others.
- Networking: Builds and uses sustainable
relationships and networks to support the work of Save the Children.
- SCI Values: Ambition, Collaboration,
Creativity, Accountability and Integrity
Qualifications and Experience
- A basic University degree in Public Health or
Nursing sciences with a post graduate degree in Public Health or related
fields (Health Communication, Health Promotion, Community Development,
Behaviour Change communication). Field experience in the related fields
may be considered in lieu of a post graduate degree. .
- Minimum five (5) years post-training relevant
mix of professional work experience in maternal and child health and
family planning programmes. Experience in mobilizing communities for
health and development with pastoral communities in the ASAL regions of
Kenyan added advantage.
- Experience working with the Kenya Community
Health Strategy
- Demonstrable commitment to tackling social
determinants of health and health inequalities, with a strong focus on
equity in health and development, ensuring right of access to health for
the poorest and marginalized
- Background driving health advocacy and social
change processes and outcomes
Important: Must be willing to abide fully by Save the
Children Child Safeguarding Policy.
Vacancy:Programme Officer - Reproductive Health
Reference Code:PO/WAJ/RH/SCI
Team / Programme: Programmes (ESHE / DFID FP Partnership)
Location: Wajir
County
Grade: 4
Post Type: National
Child Safeguarding: Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may
require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or
young people
Role Purpose: SCI Kenya is in the process of implementing the
second phase of ESHE, an innovative Family Planning programme that seeks to
tackle deep rooted barriers to family planning demand, access and uptake by
creating an enabling environment for FP practices in northeast Kenya.
Utilizing social change, empowerment,
behaviour change and institutional strengthening approaches, the programme is
expected to significantly contribute to sustained universal access to FP as
part of a DFID supported consortium of partners present across 24 Counties in
Kenya.
The programmatic model will work through
community health systems and other tiers of healthcare to gain the support of
communities, community opinion leaders and County Health Managers to promote FP
services, particularly for poor rural woman.
This programming across Save the
Children’s Theory of Change will ensure healthy mothers and healthy baby
outcomes by the end of 2017.
Scope of Role: This
job will play a critical role in ensuring effective community mobilisation and
participation strategies in the Family Planning (ESHE) programme in
Wajir.
The aim of this job is to ensure
effective day to day planning, implementation and monitoring of reproductive
health activities including family planning mobilization at community
level.
The role ensures that planned
activities are implemented in a collaborative, effective, efficient and
inclusive way, working closely with the Ministry of Health and Religious
leaders at all levels across the County.
The holder works under the guidance
and direction of the Health Specialist (Health Programme Manager) or RH/MNH
Coordinator.
Dimension: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Dimension: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Current programming focuses on child
protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods,
nutrition and WASH.
In 2012, as part of a global
reorganization process, Save the Children combined the programmes of SC UK, SC
Canada and SC Finland to create a single operation in Kenya.
In Feb 2014, we completed a second
transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge
their health and nutrition programmes with our own.
Save the Children now has an
operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana
and Wajir and we work through partners in many other parts of the
country.
We employ nearly 300 staff and will
have an operating annual budget in 2015 of approximately US$20-25 million.
Staff directly reporting to this post: none
Key Areas of Accountability:
Staff directly reporting to this post: none
Key Areas of Accountability:
Support to Programme Delivery
- Planning and implementation of ESHE program
activities including community engagement and mobilization and social
dialogue for increased demand for Family Planning
- Organizing and coordinating training and
capacity building initiatives for community resource persons including
community health volunteers, social analysis and dialogue facilitators,
Muslim religious leaders, mother to mother support groups and facility
health workers
- Ensure adequate management of delegated budget
authority, and work across sections to ensure adequate support to
programme implementation from Finance, HR, Logisitics etc
Partnerships for Social Change
- Develop partnerships with religious leaders,
politicians, women’s groups, and close-to-community health providers,
health care workers, community health committees and other organised
groups to orient and involve them in programme implementation
- Develop close collaboration with various
professional groups and non-governmental organisations active in community
health strategy and FP to facilitate learning and model best practice.
- Provide on-going support to county government
counterparts and other partners in community engagement and communication
for social change
Monitoring, evaluation,
accountability and learning (MEAL)
- Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation,
Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team to ensure effective monitoring and
evaluation of programme activities including preparation of monitoring
reports and mainstreaming accountability mechanisms.
- Drafting and sharing periodic project reports
including trip reports, distribution reports, activity reports, weekly
reports and monthly donor reports
- Initiate and ensure documentation and sharing
of case studies, success stories or human interest stories
Key Competencies (our Values in
Practice)
- Delivering results: Takes personal
responsibility and holds others to account to deliver our ambitious Goals
for children, continually improving own performance or that of the team/
organization.
- Problem solving and decision making: Takes
effective, considered and timely decisions by gathering and evaluating
relevant information from within or outside the organization and making
appropriate judgments.
- Applying technical and professional expertise:
Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest
standards; promotes and shares best practice within and outside the
organization.
- Communicating with impact: Communicates clearly
and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes dialogue and
ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence and trust
with others.
- Working effectively with others: Works
collaboratively to achieve shared goals and thrives on diversity of people
and perspectives. Knows when to lead and when to follow and how to ensure
effective cross-boundary working
SCI Values: Ambition,
Collaboration, Creativity, Accountability and Integrity
Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications and Experience
- A University degree in Public Health or Social
science related field with emphasis on Health Communication, Health
Promotion, Community and Social mobilization.
- Minimum two (2) years post-training relevant
mix of professional work experience in community health, community
development, and family planning programmes.
- Experience in mobilizing communities for
health and development in Northern Kenya an added advantage.
- Experience working with the Kenya Community
Health Strategy
- Demonstrable commitment to tackling social
determinants of health and health inequalities, with a strong focus on
equity in health and development, ensuring right of access to health for
the poorest and marginalized
- Background driving health advocacy and social
change processes and outcomes
- Must be willing to abide fully by Save the
Children Child Safeguarding Policy.
Vacancy: Data Management Assistant
Reference Code:DATA/WAJ/ASS/SCI
Reference Code:DATA/WAJ/ASS/SCI
Team / Programme:Programmes
Location: Wajir
Grade / Tittle: 5
Post Type: National (1year with possibility of extension)
Child Safeguarding: Level
3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have
regular contact with or access to children or young people
Role Purpose: In close liaison with the MEAL officer and program coordinators, the Data management Assistant support the collection, processing and verification activity data reports/forms and maintains programme/projects databases by entering new and updated monitoring data and data collection forms.
Role Purpose: In close liaison with the MEAL officer and program coordinators, the Data management Assistant support the collection, processing and verification activity data reports/forms and maintains programme/projects databases by entering new and updated monitoring data and data collection forms.
He/she assists with monitoring and evaluation
matters within the projects in order to ensure successful project
implementation.
Scope of Role:
Reports to: MEAL Officer
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Reports to: MEAL Officer
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Current programming focuses on child
protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods,
nutrition and WASH.
In 2012, as part of a global
reorganization process, Save the Children combined the programmes of SC UK, SC
Canada and SC Finland to create a single operation in Kenya.
In Feb 2014, we completed a second
transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge
their health and nutrition programmes with our own.
Save the Children now has an
operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana
and Wajir and we work through partners in many other parts of the country.
We employ more than 300 staff and
have an operating annual budget in 2014 of approximately US$25 million.
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- holds self-accountable for making decisions,
managing resources efficiently, and achieving and role modeling 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, 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
Key Areas of Accountability:
- Work with the MEAL officer and program
coordinators in all processes of ensuring efficient project data
Management including collecting, organizing, and verifying accuracy of data
before it is captured into database.
- Perform data entry and provide summaries and
regular trend monitoring as requested by program teams.
- Performing data cleaning as required for
all the programs running in the field office
- Documentation and management of programs
data/information.
- Filing the data collection forms including
CHWs reports in an organized manner.
- Maintain and share updated database of all
program data on regular basis and help retrieve information to inform
project reporting
- Participate in regular monitoring of programme
activities in the field including post distribution monitoring, write up
reports and provide appropriate feedback to the supervisor and the field
staffs accordingly.
- Participate and lead in facilitating Community
feedback sessions and beneficiary Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and
semi-structured interviews and follow up on feedback with the relevant
departments
- Request for additional information from the
field staff when necessary and work with the field staff to ensure efficient
data capture protocols.
- Assist in collecting and documenting human
interest stories and case studies as benchmarks for best practices for use
in periodic newsletters and other internal publications
- Assist in undertaking data quality audit, spot
checks and on-job trainings on proper data/information keeping for the
various supported health facilities and community units.
- Assist in refining the project monitoring
tools
- Assist in developing a system of analysing and
managing information on beneficiary lists and training databases.
- Support in planning and organizing for
surveys/evaluations and supervising data collection
Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications:
Qualifications:
- Degree or Higher Diploma in IT or related
field;
- Skills, knowledge and ability to enter,
analyse and report on data
- Mastery of Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and
other statistical packages.
- Experience in related area of work
- Strong organizational skills, ability to plan
and work independently to get results in a fast –paced environment
- Proficiency in both written and oral
communications; Communicate efficiently and effectively both verbally and
in writing
- Experience working with children and
vulnerable communities
Basic skills needed
- Computer literacy a must
- Knowledge of local language
- An ability to work to deadlines
- An ability to work fast (but without mistakes)
- Good attention to detail
Vacancy: Nutrition Assistant
2 Positions
Position Code: SCI NA
Team / Programme:Programme Operations
2 Positions
Position Code: SCI NA
Team / Programme:Programme Operations
Location: Wajir
Grade: 5
Post Type: National
(1 year contract with possibility of renewal)
Child Safeguarding: Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may
require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or
young people
Role Purpose: S/He will be responsible for supporting the enhanced implementation of nutrition interventions among communities through nutrition education, surveillance and strengthening capacity of MoH in the management of acute malnutrition.
Role Purpose: S/He will be responsible for supporting the enhanced implementation of nutrition interventions among communities through nutrition education, surveillance and strengthening capacity of MoH in the management of acute malnutrition.
Scope of Role:
Reports to: Nutrition Coordinator
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Reports to: Nutrition Coordinator
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Current programming focuses on child
protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods,
nutrition and WASH. In 2012, as part of a global reorganization process, Save
the Children combined the programmes of SC UK, SC Canada and SC Finland to
create a single operation in Kenya.
In Feb 2014, we completed a second
transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge
their health and nutrition programmes with our own.
Save the Children now has an
operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana
and Wajir and we work through partners in many other parts of the
country.
We employ nearly 300 staff and will
have an operating annual budget in 2015 of approximately US$20-25 million
Staff directly reporting to this
post: None
Key Areas of Accountability:
1. Nutrition Education and Trainings;
Key Areas of Accountability:
1. Nutrition Education and Trainings;
Undertakes the the following
activities in consultation and/or with support from the Nutrition Coordinator
- Participate in the development of training
curriculum and tools and facilitate/co-facilitate nutrition education
trainings
- Supports technical, logistical and any other
training needs in the various divisions.
- Liaise with the County Health Department and
other partners in ensuring that nutrition education are comprehensively
done following set guidelines
- Identify needs for and participate in
refresher training sessions with CHWs and health workers
- Identify a and collaborate with a number of
community leaders who will work closely with the program at the village
level
- With support from the Nutrition Team, evaluate
the outcomes of trainings conducted and continuous on-job trainings.
2. Project Monitoring, Evaluation,
Accountability and Learning (MEAL)
- Write reports to document the process of
implementation, lessons learnt and good practice and ensure information is
widely disseminated
- With support from Nutrition Coordinator,
participate in the design and execution of nutrition surveys and
assessments according to national guidelines
- Prepare monthly activity reports as well as
contribute to the development of quarterly project donor reports.
- Actively participate at Community Feedback and
Learning events
3. Support Supervision
- In consultation with the nutrition
coordinator, develop a comprehensive plan for supervision and
implementation of all the field nutrition activities
- Assist the community health workers
implementing nutrition activities to develop monthly work plans.
- At program level, supervise the quality of
surveillance, support to MoH and nutrition education promotion and
counselling by the trained nutrition workers and community health workers.
- Mentor nutrition workers to ensure
effectivesupport and supervision to community health workers in their
areas of coverage according to set norms and standards
- Ensure regular meetings with the nutrition and
community health workers
- Document and share lessons learnt in a
comprehensive, detailed and timely manner to enable tracking of changing
trends in nutrition status
4. Development of nutrition education
training and counselling materials
- With support from line manager,
participate in the design of a formative research study to identify
nutrition problems and barriers common in the community
- In consultation with line manager,
participate in the design/adaptation of appropriate nutrition education
and promotion methods and tools, and pre- testing them with the team and
community members.
- Train field nutrition workers on the use of
the job aids
- Identify and document locally available foods
and develop recipes
- Oversee and guide staff in providing on-site
cooking demonstrations and workshops
5. Implement Community Mobilization
Activities
- Carry out community based nutritional
promotional activities targeting community groups. Activities to include
are: School nutrition clubs, community outreaches, and facility based
nutrition education focusing on IYCF, growth monitoring and maternal
nutrition, and dissemination of IEC materials.
- Ensure on-going community-based nutritional
screening, data analysis and reporting
- Liaise and establish strong links with
existing community structures including women groups, community health
committees, youth groups and religious leaders.
6. Implement the development and
maintenance of a nutrition referral system
- In support and consultation and support from
the Nutrition Coordinator, work with Nutrition workers to develop and
maintain a referral system at community level in which community health
workers refer malnourished children and mothers needing special attention
to the health facilities.
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
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree/Diploma in Public Health,
Food & Nutrition or equivalent
- At least two years’ work experience in
community nutrition work and implementation of nutrition education
programmes, including monitoring and evaluation
- Understanding of community management of acute
malnutrition
- Experience of and commitment to utilizing
participatory approaches.
- Experience in KAP assessments and formative
research; and understanding of nutritional surveillance and information
systems.
- Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach
local staff and community workers.
- Excellent communication skills and a
willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathise with children
and their carers
- Willingness and capacity to be flexible and
accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions
- Prepared to live and work in an uncertain
security environment
- Ability and willingness to frequently travel
and stay at the field
- Strong research and data analysis skills
- Strong report writing and computer skills
- Fluent in written and spoken English,
Kiswahili and local languages
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the
Children’s aims, values and principles.
Desirable
- Qualified nutritionist with nutrition
education/IYCF experience
Interested candidates are hereby
required to drop their applications together with copies of their academic
qualifications, national Identity card and testimonials at SCI Wajir area
Office with the position clearly indicated on top of the enclosed envelop and
clearly addressed to The Human Resource and Administration Officer,SCI:Wajir
Area Office; not later than 27th April 2015 at 5pm.
Vacancy: Health & Nutrition Promoter
Position Code: SCI
HNP
Team / Programme:Programme Operations
Location: Wajir
Grade: 5
Post Type: National
(1 year Contract with possibility of renewal)
Child Safeguarding: Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may
require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or
young people
Role Purpose: The Health and Nutrition Promoter will work closely with the Health and Nutrition Promotion officer, MOH and Community and will be responsible for equipping community members with correct and accurate Information, Education and Communication messages on health and nutrition that influence adoption of appropriate behaviour change
Role Purpose: The Health and Nutrition Promoter will work closely with the Health and Nutrition Promotion officer, MOH and Community and will be responsible for equipping community members with correct and accurate Information, Education and Communication messages on health and nutrition that influence adoption of appropriate behaviour change
Scope of Role:
Reports to: Nutrition Officer
Reports to: Nutrition Officer
Dimensions: Save
the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support
to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered
both directly and through local partners.
Current programming focuses on child
protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods,
nutrition and WASH.
In 2012, as part of a global
reorganization process, Save the Children combined the programmes of SC UK, SC
Canada and SC Finland to create a single operation in Kenya.
In Feb 2014, we completed a second
transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge
their health and nutrition programmes with our own.
Save the Children now has an
operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana
and Wajir and we work through partners in many other parts of the
country.
We employ nearly 300 staff and will
have an operating annual budget in 2015 of approximately US$20-25 million
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Key Areas of Accountability:
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Key Areas of Accountability:
- Take lead in implementation of health and
nutrition promotion activities.
- Work closely with the health and nutrition
team in carrying out assessments to identify health promotion / behavior
change needs in the community.
- To support the CHEW, CHWs and the MTMSG to
enhance the community empowerment and demand for Health and Nutrition
services.
- Lead Community mobilisation and
sensitization with the various community sectors-school going children,
CHWs, Clinic Health Committees, Village health committees, mothers,
religious leaders and the youth.
- Carry out home visits to beneficiaries to
assess and mentor them on adoption of proper personal hygiene, water
handling , nutrition and child care practices
- Capacity build the CHWs to carry out home
visits to beneficiaries to assess and mentor them on adoption of
proper personal hygiene, water handling , nutrition and child care
practies.
- Liaise with MOH to conduct health and
nutrition education and hygiene promotion trainings to the water management
committees, Health Facility Management committees, CHWs and school
teachers
- Continuously monitor quality and uptake of
health and nutrition promotion messages and report to the nutrition
coordinator for action on issues identified.
- Together with key partner ministries and other
implementing partners, strengthen school health promotion programmes
including Duksis and ECDS.
- Assist the community health workers
implementing health and nutrition education activities to develop monthly
work plans.
- At program level support MoH to undertake
health and nutrition education promotion and counselling by the trained
nutrition workers, community health workers ad mother to mother support
groups.
- Liaise and establish strong links with
existing community structures including women groups, community
development committees, youth groups and religious leaders.
- Participate in a formative research study to
identify health and nutrition problems common in the community
- Participate in the design/adaptation of
appropriate nutrition education and promotion methods and tools, and pre-
testing them with the team and community members.
- Liaise with the health education sector at the
department of health to adapt and produce appropriate Health and nutrition
IEC materials
- Participate in reviewing the community
training guides and counselling cards
- Provide leadership and participate in Mother
to Mother support groups training and meeting sessions.
- Participate in development of Health and
nutrition education job aids
- Oversee and guide staff in providing on-site
cooking demonstrations for communities and mother to mother support
groups.
- Maintain a data base of the trained and active
Community Health Awareness Teams in the community.
- Prepare plans and write reports on health and
nutrition promotion activities.
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
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Food,
Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent
- At least two years’ work experience with
and international humanitarian agency in community health and nutrition
work and implementation of nutrition education programmes, including
monitoring and evaluation
- Understanding of High Impact Nutrition
Interventions
- Experience of and commitment to utilizing
participatory approaches..
- Ability to work in the field and represent the
organization in community meetings
- Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach
local staff and community workers.
- Excellent communication skills and a
willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathise with children
and their carers
- Willingness and capacity to be flexible and
accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions
- Prepared to live and work in an uncertain
security environment
- Ability and willingness to frequently travel
and stay at the field
- Strong research and data analysis skills
- Strong report writing including case studies
and success stories and computer skills
- Fluent in written and spoken English,
Kiswahili and local languages
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the
Children’s aims, values and principles.
Desirable
- Qualified nutritionist with health and
nutrition promotion experience
Interested candidates are hereby
required to drop their applications together with copies of their academic
qualifications, national Identity card and testimonials at SCI Wajir area
Office with the position clearly indicated on top of the enclosed envelop and
clearly addressed to The Human Resource and Administration Officer,SCI:Wajir
Area Office; not later than 27th April 2015 at 5pm.
Send Online applications to kenya.jobapplications@savethechildren.org.
Save the Children is an equal employment opportunity Organization and qualified female candidates and those with disability are encouraged to apply as well.
Send Online applications to kenya.jobapplications@savethechildren.org.
Save the Children is an equal employment opportunity Organization and qualified female candidates and those with disability are encouraged to apply as well.