Role Purpose:
The role holder will be responsible for implementing better health and nutrition among communities through nutrition education, surveillance and supporting the MOH in increasing uptake of MIYCN (Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition), IMAM surge approach scale up, Promote community led complimentary feeding and Roll out community/mother led MUAC screening. In close liaison with MEAL, support in collection, processing and verification of reports/forms and maintains programme/projects databases
Key Areas of Accountability
Nutrition Education trainings
Participate in the development of training curriculum and tools and facilitate/co-facilitate all nutrition education trainings
Provide technical, logistical and any other support for the trainings in the various divisions.
Liaise with relevant ministries and partner agencies in selecting participants for trainings while ensuring that priority is given to the staff working in the key agreed areas
Liaise with the ministry and other partners in ensuring that nutrition education are comprehensively done following set guidelines
Maintain a data base of the trained and active nutrition educators in the community
Identify needs for and participate in refresher training sessions
Identify a number of community leaders who will work closely with the program at the village
Participate in evaluation of the outcomes of the trainings
Monitoring and Evaluation
Participate in the design, development and implementation of an M&E framework for all nutrition related activities.
Write reports to document the process of implementation, lessons learnt and good practice and ensure information is widely disseminated
Prepare monthly activity reports as well as quarterly donor reports.
Take lead in all nutrition monitoring and evaluation activities e.g. Coverage assessments, SMART surveys
Supervision
Develop a comprehensive plan for supervision of all the field nutrition activities
Assist the community health extension workers (CHEWs) implementing nutrition activities to develop monthly work plans.
Mentor the Sub county nutritionists to ensure that they support and supervise the community health extension workers in their areas of coverage as required
Ensure regular meetings with the Sub County nutritionists and community health extension workers
Document and share lessons learnt in a comprehensive and detailed manner to enable track trends on changes on a timely basis
Development of nutrition education training and counselling materials
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 department at the Ministry of health to adapt and produce appropriate nutrition education materials
Participate fully in reviewing the community training guides and counselling cards
Identify and document locally available foods and develop recipes
Oversee and guide staff in providing on-site cooking demonstrations and workshops
Network and coordinate with the relevant sectors and agencies in implementing nutrition activities at national and community level
Identify areas of synergy in the field with the Ministry of Health and other implementing agencies working with communities.
Come up with a comprehensive plan of activities within the identified areas of synergy with the actors named above.
Actively participate in coordination meeting
Implement Community Mobilization Activities
Carry out community based nutritional promotional activities targeting community groups. Activities to mainly include MIYCN sessions, community feedback meetings and social mobilization
Liaise and establish strong links with existing community structures including mother to mother support groups, community units, youth groups, village elders and religious leaders.
Implement the development and maintenance of a referral system
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.
Contract Duration: 5 Months
Work Location: Turkana.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Food & Nutrition or equivalent
At least two (2) years’ work experience in community nutrition work and implementation of nutrition education programmes, including monitoring and evaluation
Understanding of community management of acute malnutrition
Excellent understanding of SQUAEC, SMART methodologies
Experience of and commitment to utilizing participatory approaches.
Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach local staff and community workers.
Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathies with children and their careers.
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.
Desired
Qualified nutritionist with nutrition education/MIYCN experience
Experience in implementing promotion of community led complimentary feeding
Experience in rolling out community/mother led MUAC screening.
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