Outreach Assistant, Humanitarian – Nutrition Assistant,
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and organize integrated
health and nutrition outreach sites at designated sites in liaison
with the nutrition Coordinator
- Liase with the Nutrition
Coordinator and Programme Manager to plan for logistics for various
integrated health and nutrition outreaches.
- Ensure that SCI and MoH outreach
protocols/Sops are applied to integrated outreaches.
- Work with MoH staff and officials
to ensure all aspects of the program are understood and agreed by MoH and
appropriate referrals take place to and from MoH and the OTP/SFP
- Ensure cases not meeting
admission criteria return home as early as possible and understand why
their child is not admitted
- Coordinate referrals for children
with complications.
- Screen children five years and
pregnant and lactating women for malnutrition using MUAC and Z score.
- Coordinate with sub-county MoH
teams to ensure adequate supplies (RUFT, RUSF, CSB) for the
outreaches.
- Request specific children to be
followed up as required (newly enrolled children, sick children, long stay
children / children not gaining weight, children with social problems
etc.).
- Provide appropriate orientation
for all volunteers engaged in the outreach programme receive appropriate
orientation and supervision.
- Provide appropriate training to
outreach team members (orientation and regular training)
- Establish team coordination,
collaborative team work, internal information sharing (daily briefings
weekly coordination meetings, etc.) with constant focus on improving the
effectiveness of outreach teams collaboration
- Maintain constant focus on
improving outreach information sharing (timely and relevant information)
- Ensuring outreach teams are
equipped with adequate portable devices to support efficient and effective
information sharing
- Collect outreach monitoring data
for reporting purposes and sharing and coordination internally and
externally (Daily report, Weekly/Biweekly report, Case studies, monthly
reports)
- Local level awareness raising on
best feeding practices for infants and young children amongst other
humanitarian actors in the locality.
- Supports the Child Safeguarding
focal point to ensure that child safeguarding and safe programming is
embedded in the project and considered throughout implementation to ensure
that we do all we can to ensure children in our programs are safe, in line
with our child safeguarding policy.
Qualifications
- Health / Public Health /
Nutrition BSc or equivalent
- Qualified nurse/Nutritionist with
primary health care / community health care experience
- Experience of emergency nutrition
work (preferably CMAM) and implementation of feeding programs, including
monitoring and evaluation
- Experience in conducting
nutrition assessments and an understanding of nutritional surveillance and
information systems
- Proven capacity of management,
leadership and teamwork
- Excellent communication skills
and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathizes with
all beneficiaries and their careers
- Willingness and capacity to be
flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating
working conditions
- Demonstrable ability at report
writing
- Prepared to live and work in an
uncertain security environment
- Ability and willingness to
frequently travel and stay at the field
- Commitment to and understanding
of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles
- Fluency in written and spoken
English and local languages
- Experience of working with
Microsoft’s office word, excel, PowerPoints and SPSS
- Very good knowledge, commitment
and understanding of Child Safeguarding Policy, the aims and principles of
Save the Children, and humanitarian standards such as the Sphere Charter
and the Code of Conduct. In particular, a good understanding of the SC
mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to
underpin our support
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 realize 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 need to keep children safe so our
selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from
abuse. Employment is subject to our Child protection standards including
background checks and adherence to our Child Safeguarding Policy.
Save the Children is an equal opportunity
employer and seeks to employ and assign the best-qualified talent.
Female Candidates are encouraged to apply.
Disclaimer:
Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at
whichever stage of the recruitment process, nor request for medical examination
or records and does not act through recruitment agents whatsoever.
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