Main responsibility:
· Timely mobilization and sensitization of emergency nutrition and WASH activities
· Provide ground information to Emergency Nutrition and WASH team and other program staff for situation in the project area
· Monitor key CMAM and WASH activities
· Track and document active case finding and follow up of cases
· Supervision of community volunteers and how they are working in the community
Specific Responsibility
· Overseeing implementation and monitoring while ensuring quality program delivery of the overall emergency nutrition and water, hygiene and sanitation activities
· Plan, implement and monitor community CMAM and WASH community outreach activities
· Select/recruit, train and supervise member of outreach volunteers at OTP sites
· Involve community leaders/ relevant health and WASH staffs in the recruitment process and promote of identification of outreach volunteers for each villages
· Report to woreda team leader and other relevant partners regarding outreach community activities and hygiene promotion campaigns
· Participate in CMAM and WASH general program management duties as requested/ordered by team leader/coordinator (eg. distribution planning, hygiene campaign, monitoring and reporting) and perform other tasks as negotiated (eg. training of volunteers)
· Explore all links with individuals’ members of the community (eg. TBAs, village leader etc) and develop their engagement and ownership of the community based activities
· Make a regular follow up on communities hygiene message utilization, POUWTC usage, treated water storage and use; provide regular feedback to communities
· Record examples of best practices
· In liaison with woreda team leader, advise and implement strategy to for active case finding (screening) within identified catchment areas using nutrition staffs/community volunteers
· In liaison with woreda team leader, create system /tools for screening follow up and feedback statistics to team leader and adapt case finding strategy appropriately
· In liaison with woreda team leader, coordinate the activities of outreach volunteers and hygiene campaigns, ensure active participation of outreach volunteers in OTP
· In liaison with woreda team leader, ensure that fully operation system in place for follow up of children not returning to the program (including absentees, defaulters, deaths) and children at risk (long staying/not gaining weight) and post visits feedback is given to team leader
· Monitor and ensure the program’s engagement with disadvantaged or excluded group
· Support of delivery of nutrition, health and Wash education messages of appropriate content and manner to mothers and care takers
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
· Diploma in Health, Nutrition, Community Development and Social Science Discipline
· At least 2 years of experience working in community based healthcare activities preferable working with NGOs
· Local languages of the project area is COMPULSORY
Desirable:
· Good human relations and Analytical capacity
· Knowledge of nutrition-WASH and related issues
· Good organizational, training and Communication capacities
· Able to work under pressure & to meet tight deadlines