Code: SCI/HFO/052/18
Program/Unit: Growth Through Nutrition/GTN/
No. of Positions: 01 (One )
Length of Contract: One year
INTRODUCTION:
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ROLE PURPOSE:
Feed the Future Ethiopia Growth through Nutrition activity, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) flagship five-year, multi-sectoral nutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project is implemented in four regions (Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray) of Ethiopia. The primary aim of this five-year (2016-2021) project is to prevent undernutrition during the first 1,000 days, from the start of pregnancy until the child’s second birthday using evidence-based nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions. Save the Children leads the project in partnership with government ministries (FMOH, FMOANR, FMOWIE, FMOE, and FMOE) and international and local NGOs.
The Nutrition Zonal Coordinator, based at zonal department, is responsible for the management of sector activities at zonal, woreda, and health facility or community levels in Growth through Nutrition implementation areas.
The Zonal Coordinator is expected to improve planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting processes as they pertain to Growth through Nutrition program activities. The incumbent works closely with the government structure and other zonal/cluster team members of Growth through Nutrition and related programs to ensure
program integration at all levels. S/he is also expected to track physical implementation against activity plan and budget utilization under Growth through Nutrition health and Nutrition program component.
The position holder will provide nutrition related technical support at zonal, woreda, and community level to ensure the quality implementation of the program activities. S/he is responsible to strengthen zonal and woreda level nutrition multi-sectoral coordination. S/he ensures efficient and timely implementation of activities as per the approved operational plan, regularly mentors and coaches health facility staff, supervise and/or facilitate trainings at woreda level facilitate joint supportive supervision and share and document challenges, lessons and best practices faced during implementation
S/he is responsible to maintain close contact and liaise with Zonal/Woreda/Regional Health and Agriculture offices to ensure quality of documentation and utilization of nutrition and health data at woreda and health facilities. S/he is responsible for timely production and submission of reports and other deliverables such as health facilities program data for data base to regional office
KEY Responsibilities:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE, COMPETENCIES
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