Community Nutrition Supervisor (Nutritionist)

Society for Health Extension and Development (SHED)

Society for Health Extension and Development (SHED)

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Summary

• Vacancy: —
• Age: at most 35 years
• Location: Cox’s Bazar (Ukhia)
• Minimum Salary: Negotiable
• Experience: At least 1 year
• Published: 10 Nov 2024

Requirements

Education

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in nutrition and food science from any reputed public/private university.

Experience

• At least 1 year
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
  NGO

Additional Requirements

• Age at most 35 years

• At least 1 year progressively responsible work experience in the area of community mobilization with a bias in CMAM, MIYCN and C-MAMI.

• For extra ordinary/promising candidates, experience can be flexible.

• Maximum 35 Years (on 16/11/2024), but for highly potential candidate (s) age can be flexible.

• Ability and willingness to travel to camps and stay in the field if required.

• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions like long distance walking to sites.

• Excellent spoken and written Local and English languages.

• Good facilitation and mobilization skills.

• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

• Experience in closely working with camp level is advantageous.

• Previous experience working in CMAM is an asset.

• Knowledge of local dialects (Cox’s Bazar region/ Rohingya dialect is an asset.

Responsibilities & Context

Society for Health Extension and Development (SHED) a National NGO working in Cox’s Bazar district is inviting applications from suitable candidates for its Programme title ‘Integrated Nutrition Interventions for Malnutrition Treatment and Prevention in FDMN’S Camps & Host communities in Cox’s Bazar’. The Programme is jointly funded by UNICEF & UNWFP. SHED is looking for qualified candidates for the post.

Department– Health and Nutrition

Job Context:

Responsible for leading community-based nutrition activities including screening and referral of wasting cases, follow-up home visits, closely working with the Lead mother in rolling out MtMSG activity, coordination and liaison at camp level, supportive supervision and reporting and conflict management at camp level. This position will also support in Integrated Nutrition Facility that includes Outpatient Therapeutic Programme (OTP), Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme (TSFP) Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme (BSFP), IYCF, ECCD and CMAMI and other nutrition-sensitive activities as and when needed and deputize Nutrition Supervisor.

Report to: Nutrition Supervisor (Nutritionist)

Supervise to: Community Nutrition Volunteers who will be assigned by your site.

Duration: Till 31st December-2024 with a high possibility of extension.

Responsibilities:

Under the guidance of the Nutrition Supervisor, Deputy Program Manager and Program Manager (Nutritionist) the Community Nutrition Supervisor will be responsible for:

Ensure effective implementation and timely completion of outreach activities:

• Mobilizing the Community Outreach teams to work with the target community to ensure that the project activities are delivered with maximum efficiency and professionalism.

• Organizing the logistical arrangements for community level meetings with support from other project staff

• Ensuring that the targeted community (under five, adolescent girls and pregnant and lactating women) are linked to the nutrition Centre for services e.g., Counselling, diagnosis, treatment.

• Facilitating effective screening, listing and mobilization of the targeted community towards achieving objective.

• Facilitating effective screening at the community level among the targeted population.

• Ensuring that volunteers are adequately trained and are regularly supporting screening and refer the SAM, MAM and at risk children.

• Establish, train, and support Mother to Mother Support Groups (MtMSGs) and adolescent girl support groups.

• Engaging the community members and motivating them to bring positive changes with the minimum resources towards achieving objective.

• Ensuring that the nutrition mobilization 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.

• Regularly meet with, inform, and sensitize the local authorities, community leaders and members to ensure good understanding of the nutrition program. Anticipate possible community concerns and work proactively to address them.

• Strategize and implement methods to ensure complete coverage of eligible beneficiaries within the assigned nutrition site catchment area.

• Support the distribution of IFA to adolescent girls in the community, following CMAM protocols.

• Support surveys and assessments in the assigned nutrition site catchment area.

Ensure quality of program components at outreach level:

• Ensure high quality standards for measurement and other technical tasks carried out by Community Nutrition Volunteers, through assessment, training, and supportive supervision.

• Ensure that each member of the outreach team fully understands the outcomes that are expected from them; supporting team members to work to the highest quality of standard possible.

• Document internal and external monitoring findings, prepare action plan and share with Nutrition Supervisor, DPM and PM and execute that plan as per instruction.

Ensure monitoring and timely reporting in place:

• Ensure sound monitoring of program activities and monitoring team at field level and share with line manager(s)

• Collaborate with MEAL team to ensure timely compiling statistical data and draft appropriate reports on activities including producing monthly reports and end of program evaluation report.

• Ensure documentations of lessons learnt and best practices within the implementation of the INI program.

• Maintain databases and creating high quality reports, presentations, and other documents as required.

Ensure staff supportive supervision and development, performance appraisal, update any vacancy and ensure vacancy fill up as required.

• Identify capacity gaps among component staffs/volunteers, prepare on the job capacity building and supportive supervision plan and provide initial and ongoing training to Community Nutrition Volunteers

• Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and provide guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.

• Monitor and review performance and holding staff accountable for meeting quality standards of work, delivering any improvement goals which have been identified, giving corrective feedback where required and taking decisive action when poor performance is identified.

• Effectively manage leave of volunteers to meet HR compliance and run program efficiently and with quality.

• Identify and update vacancy at outreach level to HR and line manager and Assist in the recruitment of Community Nutrition Volunteers

Collaborate within team, Coordination and External Representation:

• Act as a focal point for community leaders and members. Collect feedback and complaints and report back following CFRM guideline.

• Attend CiC and other field level meetings as requested by the line managers.

• Liaise with other partners providing nutrition and health activities in the nutrition site catchment area for good coordination of outreach activities.

• Refer to the Deputy/Programme Manager before making any verbal or written commitment.

• Enable a friendly collaborative working culture within the team and conduct regular meetings with program staff to discuss and document lessons learned.

Ensure organizational policies and donor compliances are in place:

• Orient team members on the Complaint Feedback Mechanism (CFM) and functional CFM at camp level following SoP

• Be aware of, understand and comply with all of SHED’s policies and procedures (P4, finance, logistics, HR, security management, PSEA etc.

• Besides, Deputize Nutrition Supervisor. Undertake other related duties as may reasonably be assigned by the line manager(s).

Compensation & Other Benefits

• As per SHED policy.

• As per Organization/project provision.

Workplace

Work at office

Employment Status

Full Time

Job Location

Cox’s Bazar (Ukhia)

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