World Vision Ethiopia began its first intervention in Ethiopia in 1971 with relief and opened the Ethiopia office in 1975. Relief, rehabilitation and small community development projects dominated the decade that followed. During the 1984/85 drought, World Vision Ethiopia participated in a massive relief operation that saved the lives of millions of people.

Responsibilities

Provide Technical support

( HDALs to deliver adequate nutrition SBC at the household level and facilitate  food demonstration sessions)

• Identify and register all pregnant and lactating women (PLW), children under 2, and HDALs in their respective Kebele and identify PSNP Clients from this list
• Support HEWs to conduct training for HDALs on Community Participatory Nutrition Promotion (CPNP) and follow-up with any refresh in their training to ensure that knowledge is retained and skills are still demonstrated to the required proficiency
• Support HEWs to conduct screening for underweight children in their respective Keble and admit children to group food demonstration sessions for rehabilitation
• Conduct QIVIC every three months for each HDAL under your Keblele when they conduct household counseling & learning by doing sessions and giving them constructive feedback in their area of improvement
• Facilitates experience-sharing meetings with HDALs every two weeks following the HH Counseling visit
• Support the formation of nutrition corners and demonstrate nutritious diet (menu) preparation from locally available foods in health centers and health posts.
• Organize HDA recognition events and Multi-sectoral nutrition coordination and share best practices at PA/Kebele level
• Conduct periodic capacity gap assessments HEWs, and health posts and provide focused technical support on the identified gaps; if you need any help, report to your supervisor
• Provide technical support on C_HMIS and CBHI according to the identified Gaps
• Facilitate  pilot study on  ttc storytelling through solar radio  and any other research in the R&I year

Facilitate IPT-G & GPM+ sessions and related activities.

• Support the identification and screening of women with depression and admit them to IPT-G & GPM+ sessions
• Conduct 12-week IPT-G & GPM+ sessions (meeting every week) for women with depression
• Track the IPT-G & GPM+ group participation, recovery, and discharge and link participants to health and nutrition services.
• Handle referral of complicated or severe cases to the nearest health facility
• Link women who are improved from depression symptoms to available BCC sessions (VESA, TTC, CPNP, and any other relevant economic opportunities
• Closely follow and support client until complete fictional restoration in post-IPT-G & GPM+ session and encourage Health, Nutrition, and WASH behavioral adoption
• Support  G-PM+ implementation in the VESA group  and assess any facilitation skills gap  of CF regularly and provide   technical support in their area of improvement

Monitoring progress and quality assurance project implementation

• Monitor the progress of the health and nutrition activities at the field level and provide ongoing feedback and recommendations to the Health and Nutrition Officer, IPT-G & GPM+ Officer, project management, and community leaders
• Collect and report information such as the number of HH counseled, children rehabilitated, number of women screened for depression, referred and linked for health and nutrition services, etc.,
• Keep quality of records and documents and   report to your supervisor and also use the information for quality improvement as well as to support the KFSTF decision-making process
• Provides accurate and timely information on the work of the HDALs to the Health and Nutrition Officer on a bi-weekly basis and review the HEW reports helping ensure that the information presented is accurate and complete
• Conducts joint, supportive, and facilitative supervision with Woreda and kebele staff on the  P-1 activities

Strengthen partnership, collaboration, and working relationships.

• Strengthening identification and referral linkage of PLW for Temporary Direct Support to PSNP task forces and DAs and ensuring children and PLW are referred to health services like ANC, GMP, and nutritional assessment and treatment.
• Actively participate and represent SPIR at the Kebele level in forums such as the Kebele food security task force and community health platforms like Primary Health Care Unit
• Promote to integrate the plan of the project to be part of the plan for the PA /Kebele;

• Closely works with Schools, religious leaders, CBO, and communities  and village level to ensure adequate service linkages are established

Requirements

Knowledge management, learning dissemination  and  reporting and

• Support the process of case stories, lesson learning, and best practices documentation by identifying cases and facilitating capturing and documentation process
• Support quarterly and annual reports by providing accurate health & nutrition intervention data for quarterly and yearly reports.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Knowledge Professional Experience

• A minimum of more than five years of working experience in Health and Nutrition programs in a rural development context, two years of which were in an NGO setting or equivalent work.
•  SBC session facilitation skills; and awareness/experience in counseling people with depression
• Can train and coach/Mentor a large number of HDALs
• Experience in conducting   quality field-level data collection
• Well aware of the community health care system, especially PHCU and referral linkage.
• Knowledge of the local language (Afan Oromo/Amharic) and understanding of written and spoken English languages;
• Ability to work in teamwork with people of different educational and cultural backgrounds;
• Demonstrates respect for the local culture, traditions, and values;

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• Public Health or nursing degree with 1-2 years’ experience in a rural setting
• Diploma in Clinical Nursing / Comprehensive Nursing, with 3-5-year experience in a rural setting
• Certificate in health extension worker with more than 5-7 years of experience in a rural setting

Desired NGO experience, Motorbike license is an advantageous

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Knowledge of community-based health interventions, including NCG Community based Participatory Nutrition Promotion, Care Groups, IPT-G & GPM+, dialogue-based counseling techniques to address nutrition during the 1000+ window, and positive deviance approach to improve complementary feeding are strongly preferred.

Travel and Work Environment Requirement: