Program Overview:
TRANSFORM: Primary Health Care (PHC) is a USAID funded project to improve healthcare outcomes to End Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths (EPCMD) in Ethiopia, which in turn support Government of Ethiopia efforts within the Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP). TRANSFORM: PHC will operate in the four most populous rural regions of Ethiopia (Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region). This will be accomplished in part by: mitigating the drivers of child and maternal mortality in Ethiopia’s most populous regions through the facilitation and implementation of quality health service delivery; improved management and performance of health systems; and implementation of innovative and evidence-based social behavioral change and communication interventions. TRANSFORM: PHC will strengthen the capacity of the health system to effectively use management tools and implement best practices at all levels of the health system and health care delivery with a major focus at the primary care level that include primary hospitals and PHCU.
Position purpose:
The nutrition officers is responsible for all activities related to maternal and child nutrition within TRANSFORM/PHC intervention areas. S/he is also responsible in the process of developing and adapting training guides, job aids and tools, developing implementation approaches of nutrition interventions and liaising the TRANSFOR/PHC project with the RHBs and other implementing partners in the regions. she/he is also responsible to bring innovation in to the project implementation areas. Collaborate with other actors including the public sector to avert the nutrition situation in the country. Work closely with the public at each level and TRASFORM/PHC field staff to improve the nutrition situation.
Major responsibilities: