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Summary

Vacancy: —
Location: Feni, Noakhali
Salary: Negotiable
Published: 4 Sep 2024

Requirements

Education

Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and Food Science from any reputed university.

Additional Requirements

Fresher are encouraged to Apply. Experience in working at community nutrition program will add extra value.
Technical knowledge on Community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), C-MAMI and IYCF/E, ECCD programming.
Familiar with SBCC activities.
Experience with Counselling and nutrition promotion.
Having good knowledge on flood or cyclone recovery programmes will add value.
Demonstrate ability to provide counselling support.
Only Female candidates are eligible as they will provide one to one counselling on breastfeeding to mothers.
Good command and fluency in Bengali and Noakhali/Feni dialect (will be preferable).
Enthusiastic, honest and committed. Results oriented.
Good planning and organisational skills.
Ability to problem solving and good decision making and communication skills.
Good communication skill.
Ability to work in challenging environments and strict deadline.
Good knowledge on Communication and Counselling.
Good reporting and documentation skills.
Ability to work in team, respect team decisions and support multi-cultural team members.
Must have a ‘hands on’, practical mentality, be self-driven and very self-motivated.
Must be well organized.
Very high attention to detail.
Cultural and political sensitivity.

Responsibilities & Context

Job Purpose:

The IYCF Counsellor is responsible for IYCF and CMAMI (MAMI) counselling of pregnant mothers and caregivers of children 0-23 months in the project areas. She will be responsible for age and case specific counselling and referral for the targeted area which impact on the lives of the extreme poor and results in lasting positive change. She will play a vital role to bring change in the care practices in terms of IYCF/E and MAMI. She will lead the rapid assessment of IYCF/C-MAMI and conduct the full assessment according to the standard protocol and format. She will also play key role in management of Non-Breastfed Child and ensure an organized referral pathway among INF, SC and health post. She will be responsible to perform other activities requested by her supervisor based on project need.

Main duties & responsibilities:

Ensuring that the IYCF and C-MAMI counselling implementation plan is developed jointly with the team and delivered timely and effectively to ensure improvement in the nutrition status of the project participants beyond project end.
To facilitate effective counselling to beneficiaries to bring positive change in their infant feeding practices with the minimum resources towards achieving objective and support to beneficiaries when required.
Capacitate and support volunteers to conduct the rapid screening and identification of mothers with children 0-23 months with breastfeeding difficulties and non-breastfed infants.
Counseling mothers and caretakers to ensure proper infant and young child feeding practices.
Supporting the referral of visibly severely wasted children 0-5 months for inpatient care/ stabilization center.
Ensuring quality of IYCF-E and MAMI sensitization provided by volunteers during house to house visits and perform house to house visits to especially vulnerable infants.
Ensure support to at risk Mothers and Infants (0-6 month).
Support to generate weekly, monthly and other relevant reports as detailed and keeping proper records of project activities at the field level.
Enabling a friendly collaborative working culture within the team, actively sharing information and knowledge to enable the team to ensure effective learning and sharing across the organization.
Be aware of, understand and comply with all of Concern’s policies and procedures (P4, finance, logistics, HR, security management etc.)
Undertake other related duties as may reasonably be assigned by the line manager.

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Compensation & Other Benefits

Monthly Gross Salary: 46,190/-

Standard benefits as per organizational policy:

Group Life and Hospitalisation Insurance coverages, OPD coverage, Mobile ceiling and other admissible benefits as per organisational policy.

Employment Status

Contractual

Job Location

Feni, Noakhali

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