Position: Maternal and Adolescent Nutrition Officer
Reports to: Somali Regional Senior Program Manager
Number of positions: Three
Job Family: Program
Duration of Position: Six Months
BACKGROUND
Alive & Thrive (A&T) is a global nutrition initiative to save lives, prevent illness, and ensure healthy growth of mothers and children. From 2009–2014, A&T demonstrated that rapid improvements in infant and young child feeding (IYCF) are possible in settings as diverse as Ethiopia, Bangladesh, and Viet Nam. In 2014, A&T began working in Burkina Faso, India, Nigeria, and throughout the Southeast Asia region, expanding its scope to include maternal and adolescent nutrition, and using agriculture and social protection programs as delivery mechanisms for maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN). Currently, A&T is leveraging its robust network and knowledge base to strengthen systems and build capacity in these and other countries across Africa and Asia, and disseminate innovations, tools, and lessons worldwide. The Alive & Thrive initiative, managed by FHI 360, is currently funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Irish Aid, the Tanoto Foundation, and UNICEF.
POSITION SUMMARY
The A&T Woreda Maternal and Adolescent Nutrition Officer will provide technical support to implement A&T’s maternal and adolescent nutrition activities in the assigned woreda. The maternal implementation research is aimed at improving maternal nutrition through enhancing quality and coverage of ANC services at PHCU and the adolescent nutrition research is aimed at testing packages of adolescent nutrition intervention through school, PHCU and community engagement. Under the guidance of the senior AMIYCN Advisor and Senior Regional Program Manager, the woredas Nutrition Officer ensures the proper implementation of activities planned under both implementation researches. The position holder in each woreda will closely work with woreda health and education offices, health center heads, MCH staffs, HEWs, schools’ supervisors and schoolteachers and community workers. The position plays a critical role in capacity building the capacity of health, education and community actors to deliver quality maternal and adolescent nutrition services through organizing capacity building trainings, conducting a very frequent problem-solving supportive supervisions, review sessions and community mobilization. In collaboration with other A&T team, the position holder also participates in documentation of best practices and different implementation research assessment. This position will communicate, connect, and coordinate the assigned woreda offices with the regional A&T Senior Program Manager in maternal and adolescent nutrition activities.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS/ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
General roles/responsibilities:
Under maternal nutrition implementation research, the position holder will be responsible for;
Under Adolescent nutrition implementation research, the position holder will be responsible for;
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
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Additional Information: Works in a typical government office setting; working conditions include extensive travel within the region to Zone and Woredas.