Employee Contract Type: Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Responsibilities

• Supporting woredas and PHCU in planning and conducting nutrition screening activities;
• Ensuring existence of functional referral pathways and linkages between communities and HF and vice versa;
• Promoting the availability of services to which beneficiaries can be referred, training of staff in nutrition screening and referral services;
• Ensuring that HFs are equipped with minimum supplies needed for nutrition screening activities, (e.g. MUAC tapes, registration and reporting format, referral forms, guidelines etc.); Promoting and supporting community mobilization and sensitization activities towards nutrition screening program.
• Support and assist Woreda Health Offices and PHCUs in the piloting of Family MUAC approach.
• Facilitate monthly Review meeting with the SC, OTP sites, health workers and woreda health office staffs at cluster and woreda levels;
• Conduct regular supportive supervision and provide technical support on stabilization Center and Outpatient Therapeutic Program sites every week;
• Ensure linkage of OTP discharges, MAM children, and acutely Malnourished PLW to distribution of protection and TSF ration (If applicable);
• Print, laminate and Provide the necessary OTP/SC guide lines and protocols for running OTP/SC, photocopy for other related activities;
• Conduct capacity assessment of SC, OTP sites, and staffs to identify the minimum support package/transition
• Ensure Job aids are available in Health posts (HEW quick reference, Look up table, report format, tally sheet, Plump nut and drug stock control balance form)
• Ensure the integration of IYCF to CMAM programming through strengthening of psychosocial & emotional sites & IYCF promotion & counseling;

Applicant Types Accepted: Local Applicants Only