CARE Ethiopia is a non-political, non-religious and independent humanitarian organization working in collaboration with various stakeholders to fight poverty and support vulnerable community groups. Its interventions primarily focus on three distinct impact groups: chronically food insecure rural women, pastoralist school-aged girls, and resource-poor urban female youth. CARE Ethiopia runs initiatives in the areas of WaSH, Food security and climate change, sexual and reproductive health, emergency response, and women’s empowerment in four regions of the country.
November 24, 2015
Vacancy No. 080/15
I. Position: CMAM Nurses (TSF and CMAM)
II. Grade: USD 502 (negotiable based on past pay history and other factors)
III. Number of vacant posts: 4 (Four)
IV. Duty Base: Afar Field Office
V. Application Deadline: November 30, 2015
VI. Term of employment: Fixed Term- Till May 15, 2016
VII. Duty starting date: Immediately
VIII. Role Profile
The purpose of the CMAM Nurse/ Junior Nurse position is to provide overall technical, organisational support and play a support and facilitation role for community based management of acute malnutrition in communities. she/he is assigned, includiing technology and best practices awareness creation and linkages and behavioral change through education, information and communication. She/he supports people’s empowerment, collective action and solidarity, social cohesion and inclusion as well as gender equity. Facilitates and encourages active participation of and networking between individuals and communities in recognizing problems, identifying solutions, and implementing project activities related to the identified solutions. Establishes and maintains close working relationship with communities and community organizations in her/his working area in order to ensure that the nutrition messages are disseminated and understood at all levels. Build capacities of the community and institutions. S/he works closely with woreda, Kebele, Village-level task force leaders and local government development agents.
IX. Duties and Responsibilities:
Ø Support and facilitates emergency nutrition program participants in the identification and prioritization of project beneficiaries as per the national protocol
Ø Facilitates community meetings and community action plan (CAP) preparation and ensure that the participation of each community groups in problem identification, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of CTC
Ø Ensures CARE’s key program principles of accountability, empowerment, non discrimination are followed in community analysis and action plans;
Ø Facilitates community based nutrition assessment and analysis and targeting along with Community Nutrition Volunteers (CNVs) and responsible body from the Kebele’s;
Ø Support and facilitate the establishement of new OTP/SC sites and strengthen the existing OTP/SC sites.
Ø Supports community mobilization of beneficiaries along with CNVs;
Ø Facilities, organizes, and builds skill and knowledge of care takers on appropriate feeding practices, basic hygiene and sanitation
Ø Ensures that activity implementation is informed by CARE’s core rights-based approaches and principles, gender equity, and community level advocacy in particular;
Ø Provides technical and organizational assistance to CNVs, kebele, and village representatives and community members;
Ø Selects CNVs from the community with relevant government stake holders/partners and arranges training for them along with the CMAM supervisor ;
Ø Support quality recording and documentation of nutrition data in OTP/SC sites
Ø Prepares weekly, monthly and quarterly reports and submit it to her/his supervisor
A) EDUCATION/TRAINING
Required:
· Diploma in Nursing or other related fields.
B) EXPERIENCE
Required:
C) COMPETENCIES:
Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, stress tolerance, information monitoring, developing teams, interpersonal skills, coaching, problem solving, planning and organizing.
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