Health and Nutrition Community Mobilization Assistant

Position description

Under supervision of community mobilization officer the community mobilization assistant will be a crucial part of a team responsible and accountable for ensuring the implementation of SCI community based activities related to health and nutrition program, Strengthen and accompany Community Health volunteers in carrying out detection and referral as well as sensitization/awareness among the targeted communities.

SCOPE OF ROLE

Reports to: Health and Nutrition Community Mobilization Officer.
Staff directly reporting to this Post:  Community Volunteers.
Budget responsibility: NO.

Key Areas of Responsibilities:

• Sensitize the communities within all the villages under Catchment areas; ensure activities understanding and support from communities.
• Ensure the proper identification by communities of their related Community Volunteers (such as Community Health and Nutrition Volunteers, Mother to Mother Support Group Leaders (MTMs), and iCCM volunteers).
• Support communities in identifying Community Volunteers if not available.
• Participate in elaborating training modules and suitable teaching materials.
• Support CHV in organising their activities.
• Ensure regular active screening sessions in relation with Health and nutrition unit schedule and support CHVs in conducting them.
• Ensure regular awareness sessions are conducted and support CHVs in providing them to communities.
• Support CHVs in following up cases at home (new admissions, defaulters, etc…)
• Provide CHVs with adequate work material (CHV kit) and reporting/referral formats.
• With coordination with supervisors develop clear work plan for community health and nutrition activities, and share it with community volunteers.
• Support CHV in organising their activities.
• Keep close coordination and liaison with field team, community, and partners and assist them in developing high quality and diversity health education massages.
• Reinforce the link between community volunteers, team member and community (through regular monitoring).
• Document and share lesson learnt achievements and successes from the field.
• Produce regularly accurate reporting weekly and monthly list of the mobilized villages, and the reports of the CV referrals as correct and wrong referrals to direct supervisor.
• To conduct monthly meeting with community health volunteers to discuss all related issues and to put plan for the coming period.
• To take any other relevant task given by the supervisor.
• Embed counter-fraud and ethical controls in all operational processes, ensuring compliance with donor and legal requirements, while collaborating with Finance and Counter-Fraud teams to mitigate risks and conduct assessments for high-value programs

Qualification , Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor in Public Health , Nutrition , Midwifery , Nursing or any equivalent field
• 3–4-year work experience in social work with focus on community development and mobilization, (required with a medical background to manage iCCM).
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including patience, Diplomacy, Capability to create strong relationship between among all teams’ members and community.
• Strong negotiation and communication skills
• Self-motivated.
• Strong training facilitation skills.
• Protection/community development experience.
• Ability to represent Save the Children at meetings with government officials
• Capacity to work under pressure.

Additional job responsibilities:
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom Save the Children is in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation. Any violations of this policy will be treated as a serious issue.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

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