Community Nutrition Mobilizer

Concern Worldwide

 

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Summary

• Vacancy: —
• Location: Cox’s Bazar (Ukhia)
• Salary: Negotiable
• Published: 9 Jan 2025

 

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor/Honors

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in nutrition and food science from any reported university or MPH

Additional Requirements

• Minimum 6 months experience in community nutrition programme will be preferable. However, fresher are also encouraged to apply.
• Technical knowledge on Community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) and IYCF programming will be preferable.
• Having good knowledge on Rohingya refugee programmes will add value.

Responsibilities & Context

Job Purpose:

The Community Nutrition Mobilizer will be responsible for all community mobilization related activities involving the community outreach teams charged with the bulk of the preventive nutrition interventions at the community level, as well as MAMI and IYCE. She / He will supervise and support the outreach volunteer team to work closely with the target community including caregivers of children under five, adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, and spouses, religious and local leaders among others groups in the settlement in Cox’s Bazar. He/she will be responsible for ensuring that home visits, tracking of defaulters, relapses, non-response, nutrition counselling and nutrition messaging among other community level activities are conducted with utmost quality as prescribed in the project design. In a single word, she / he will be responsible for all type of community outreach acticities and work as a bridge between integrated nutrition facility and community outreach. S/He will be responsible to perform other activities requested by his/her supervisor based on project need.

Main duties & responsibilities:

• Mobilizing the Community Outreach teams to work with the target community to ensure that the Nutrition in Emergency Response Project activity is delivered with maximum efficiency and professionalism.
• Ensuring that the targeted community (under five, adolescent girls and pregnant and lactating women) are linked to the nutrition support Centre for services eg. Counselling, diagnosis, treatment.
• Leading the implementation of effective CMAM approach specially the community outreach activities including-screening, identification, referral, follow up, listing of all the household in targeted area including the pregnant and lactating women, under five children and adolescent girls, mother to mother support group activities and mobilization of the community.
• Ensure the successful implementation of Infant and young child feeding practices (IYCF) and MAMI activities in the center and community level along with ECCD roll out with guidance from Nutrition Site Supervisor.
• Ensuring that volunteers are adequately trained and are regularly supporting screening and refer the SAM, MAM and at-risk children.
• 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
• Ensure optimal community participation in the project by supporting the CRM including providing regular feedback to the community.
• Building rapport with the beneficiaries; to encourage them to seek help for their problems by opening up safe and comfortable space where they can express themselves and share their constraints.
• Liaising with other stakeholders operating in the sector within the same target area and identify competent local resources for referrals whenever necessary.
• Enable 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 team
• Orient team members on the Complaint Response Mechanism (CRM) within Concern’s programming
• Be aware of, understand and comply with all of Concern’s policies and procedures (P4, finance, logistics, HR, security management etc.).
• Reporting and documentation of performed project activities.
• Undertake other related duties as may reasonably be assigned by the Country Director or the line manager.

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Compensation & Other Benefits

Salary: As per Organization compensation policy and structure

Standard benefits as per organizational policy: Festival allowance (02), Baisakhi allowance, provident fund, Gratuity, Group Life and Hospitalisation Insurance coverages, OPD coverage, Mobile ceiling and other admissible benefits as per organisational policy.

Employment Status

Contractual

Job Location

Cox’s Bazar (Ukhia)

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