Public Health and Nutrition Officer

Medical & Health

Overview

Support communities' preparedness and resilience in health and nutrition.

You have:

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing with a Public Health background
• Minimum four years working experience related to emergency health & nutrition and on Maternal and Child Health
• Familiarity with current Ethiopia Health policies and training on current Maternal and Child Health policies
• Fluency in spoken and written English and local language Afan Oromo

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 realise 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 know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Application Information: Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/jobs We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Public Health and Nutrition Officer- Bale TEAM/PROGRAMME: Scaling Up Anticipatory Actions for Drought Hazard Management in Legehida and Sewan woredas of Oromia Region, Ethiopia

GRADE: 4A

CONTRACT LENGTH: 6 months

LOCATION: Sawena and Legahida woredas of East Bale zone

Post Type: National

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3: the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; ore because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE: -

Pu Public Health and nutrition officer support by enhancing the preparedness and resilience of the nutrition sector and the affected communities to cope with and respond to potential shocks and emergencies, such as droughts, floods, conflicts, and disease outbreaks. The post holder support implementation of priority anticipatory nutrition actions to mitigate the impact of foreseeable crises and reduce humanitarian needs and costs for nutrition. The post holder will support Nutrition interventions that can be implemented through anticipatory action framework like community mobilization activities to enhance nutritional screening, Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E) SBCC intervention to promote, support and protect infant and young child feeding behaviors and practices. Technical support provided to local health care work force and communities to build more resilient local health and nutrition systems and ensure that vulnerable populations have access to the essential nutrition services, and to enhance the capacity of health facilities to diagnose, treat, and prevent malnutrition, through community-based interventions, before the situation deteriorates, saving lives and reducing suffering. Strengthening of surveillance system, Establish/strengthening of RRT and closely works with other thematic sectors like WaSH and livelihood.

Reports to: Health, Nutrition and WaSH Thematic Program Manager.

Dimensions:

Number of direct reports: No

JOB SPECIFIC ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

1. Support Woreda Health office and PHCU in anticipatory Health and nutrition activities.
2. Coordinate health and nutrition response team in assigned woreda with excellent liaise with primary health care unit directorate.
3. Ensure all project materials are supplied to PHCU and in place whenever during service provision.
4. Responsible for establishing and leading an effective anticipatory health and nutrition team in assigned woreda.
5. Responsible for multi-sectoral initial rapid assessment data collection and analysis when needed.
6. Responsible to represent and advocate key project deliverables and outcome brought by the organization in assigned woreda.
7. Responsible to ensure the quality of Maternal and child health at Health facilities as per guidelines
8. Responsible for preparing project detail implementation plan and procurement plan.
9. Prepare terms of reference (TOR), organize and facilitate training, review meeting and draw best lessons/practice.
10. Ensure key accountability issues addressed during the implementation of project deliverables.
11. Improving basic preventive health care at community level with emphasis health, immunization, and health and nutrition services.
12. Support in Conducting & undertaking PHC on MCH, consultation & provide proper treatment based on the protocol.
13. Strengthening of linkages and coordination mechanisms between community and the woreda health bureaus.
14. Plan and implement project outlined in the protocol for OTP and SC to achieve objectives of the project.
15. Will help facilitate admission of the patient at the OTP, and SC, TSFP
16. Ensure each admitted child receives adequate and quality clinical and nutritional care through existing resources.
17. Ensure at all times adequately equipped and supplied with the necessary nutritional and clinical requirements – Plumpy’nut, Vitamin A, routine drugs, nutritional equipment, nutritional/medical stationeries, etc.
18. Assisting the planning and promotion of awareness creation on nutrition and preventative health care issues in the community.
19. Capacitate Health Extension workers' competency in delivering compressive primary health care service at the health post.
20. Leading project team to use the organization's properties like vehicles effectively and efficiently.
21. Closely work with other sector staff (WaSH and FSL)
22. Closely work with LIP ERCS on the project progress and report
23. Perform other extra duties as required

24. Report any problems in a timely manner to the program manager

    SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and SCI Filed Offices 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 his/her self, takes responsibility for his or her own 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

  MINIMUM QUALFICATION AND EXPEREINCE

• BSC in Nursin with Public Health background and above.

• Minimum four years working experience out of which two year experience directly related to emergency health & nutrition and on Maternal and Child Health
• Familiars with current Ethiopia Health policies and trained on current Maternal and Child Health policies.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITY

• Experience in Humanitarian Public health and nutrition activities during the emergency context.
• Experience in Disaster management and risk mitigation activities
• Demonstrated skills in program planning, implementation and monitoring
• Knowledge, training and experience in CMAM and community mobilization/BCC
• Strong computer (Microsoft skills), all and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Willingness and ability to dramatically change work practices,
• flexibility in working long hours and ability to work with incoming surge teams;
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills;
• Commitment to Save the Children values
• Teams, in the event of emergencies
• Eagerness to do the work
• Dedication to objectives
• Punctuality
• Fluency in spoken and written, English and Local language Afan oromo
• Integrity
• Ability to work in a team setting, friendliness and resourcefulness (Teamwork)
• Respectful of oneself and others
• Quality conscious and ready to learn new ways of doing things

• Female applicants are appreciated

  • Personal Competencies:

• Eagerness to do the work

• Dedication to objectives
• Punctuality
• Integrity
• Ability to work in a team setting, friendliness and resourcefulness (Teamwork)
• Respectful of oneself and others

• Quality conscious and ready to learn new ways of doing things

  Date of issue: October 25, 2024

Declaration

I, _____________________________________ certify that I have read and understood this job description and I pledge to respect it along with the SC’s Code of Conduct, Child Protection Policy, the Staff Regulations and the terms and conditions of the contract I signed.

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