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Job Title | Community Mobilization Officer (CMO) |
Place of work | [Alle 1], [Halaba 2] & [Marko 1] |
Code | SCI/SH/057/2017 |
Project | Emergency Nutrition Response |
Monthly Salary in ETB | As per the organization scale |
No. of Positions | 04 (Four) |
Length of Contract | 5 months |
ROLE PURPOSE:
Community mobilization officer based at woreda health officer is responsible for the management of the emergency nutrition response activities, at, Woreda and health facility at large in community levels.
The community mobilization officer is expected to improve community assessment, community sensitization, active case finding, follow, ongoing mobilization implementation; monitoring and reporting processes as they relate to Emergency nutrition response project activities. The incumbent works closely with the government structure and other zonal/filed office and woreads based nutrition team members of Emergency nutrition response and related programs to ensure program integration at all level.
The position holder will provide emergency nutrition and health related technical support at Woreda and community level to ensure the quality implementation of the project activities. S/he is responsible to strengthen Woreda and community level nutrition and health related meeting and forum. He/she ensures efficient and timely mobilization of community for best utilization of the ongoing services. He/she expected to exert their maximum level of participation on the community level forum and meeting to create sustainable platform for tacking malnourished children in community before they developed complication.
Under the overall coordination and close technical and managerial supervision of the project coordinator, the job holder will ensure high quality CMAM implementation within the project, provide proper and quality care to all beneficiaries, respecting national protocols, sphere standards and principles of good practice.
The Community Mobilization Officer provides support in the implementation, organization, follow-up and reporting of community mobilization activities of the CMAM program in close collaboration with the Zonal health department and Woreda heath offices and SCI Officers. She/he implements and supervises the activities in the communities to strengthen and maximizing coverage and access of CMAM, TSFP, IYCF and WASH activities for the community.
KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Undertake Community Mobilization Activities in collaboration with the Health facility staff and HAD s in the community.
· Organize sensitization meetings with community leaders, village heads, community elders, traditional leaders
· Undertake community mapping and other similar exercises; and Promote integration of CMAM/TSFP activities.
· Ensure and support the health facilities with active case findings, absent tracing, defaulter tracking & follow-up progress at community level.
· Conduct regular/refresher trainings for HDAs, FDA on CMAM, TSFP, IYCF and WASH
· Ensure that the HDAs, and FDAs identifies active SAM cases in the community and refer them to the nearest health facilities
· Participate actively in CMAM, TSFP, IYCF and WASH activities in the community.
· Ensure that IYCF mother support groups are formed according to the plan; and Set up regular health education sessions in the community in consultation with key nutrition staff
· Be in charge of organizing the meetings (planning, group…), and mobilizing the community regarding our CMAM, TSFP, IYCF and WASH intervention in the community
· Regular follow up with the CMAM and TSFP Officers to identify the absentees at the health facility level
· Strengthen the referral linkage of community Health development agents to HF with appropriate format for SAM management
· Work closely with the HDAs, FDAS to plan and organize regular home visits to the children who are absent from the program
· Support the caregiver to ensure treatment compliance and home management of supplementary and therapeutic food
· Ensure that referred cases are actually going to HP/HCs by giving proper counselling and creating enabling conditions for referrals
· Continuously undertake health promotion, counselling and social mobilization activities in the community to improve the knowledge, attitudes and health seeking behaviour of caregivers
· Coordinate with other NGO’s in operating areas to collaborate and support one another for better interventions and maximization of collective efforts
· Work closely with the HDAs, HEWS and health extension supervisors to identify the communities with high defaulters and causes of the high defaulters rates
· Work with the community/village/religious leaders &HDAs to improve the community sensitization & identify the solutions in order to reduce defaulters.
· Involve in joint planning to follow up on referral children to TSFP, OTP to Stabilization Centre as well as SC to OTP to TSFP
· Represent SCI at internal, external, promotional, or program events supporting SCI’s work in health, community education and/or emergency preparedness.
· Build the capacity of FDA and HDAs through on the job training and provide regular support and supervision
· Provides support in the implementation, organization, follow-up and reporting of community mobilization activities of the SCI program in close collaboration with the CMAM and, TSFP officer
· The Community Mobilization officer implements and supervises the activities in the communities to strengthen coverage of nutrition awareness through CMAM, IYCF and WASH activities.
· Ensure the proper utilization of Water treatment chemicals /RUTF/ CSB++ / therapeutic product as per communicated to caregivers of SAM children enrolled to CMAM programme
· Builds the capacity of 1-5 HDA networks leaders and model families to recognize acute malnutrition, thereby, strengthening the tracing of cases and in community involvement
· Ensures that referred patients are reach the health centers; by giving proper counseling on the reasons for referral to mother’s/care givers, visiting the houses following referral, addressing reasons for potential hindrance for not going to HCs, informing the 1-5 network leaders to closely follow up in collaboration with community leaders kebele management and community social organizations
· Provide training for Food distribution agent training as the national MAM protocol
· Provide training for HDAs on community mobilization
· Support regular and systematic community based and clinic MUAC/Oedema screening to identify early deterioration and facilitate response
· Work closely with team members, Health Extension workers and Health Development agents (HDAs) to deliver the key sanitation and hygiene messages and monitor the results
· Liaise with communities, local authorities and other agencies regularly to ensure coordination and effective implementation of activities
· Assist the Set up and supervise TSFP in at the respective woreda.
· Prepare and submit periodic reports.
· Performs other related tasks as required.
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITY
· Significant training experience (e.g. Community mobilization, CMAM IYCF, Coaching and mentoring, and WASH related etc) with community mobilization in support of Health and WASH related programs.
· Experience in conducting trainings, training of trainers, and organizational capacity building is an asset for community and health care professional.
· Excellent public speaking, community engagement, and facilitation skills
· Ability to work under pressure, in hardship environment
· Motivated and enthusiastic, organized and with good critical thinking
· Demonstrated skills in partnership building and interpersonal communication.
· Excellent and demonstrated skills in computer Microsoft office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and outlooks, emails
· Excellent in report writing skills
· Previous NGO experience in a similar setting
· Knowledge of other local languages pertinent to the area of responsibility
· Able to work independently in a high-stress and high-risk environment with shifting priorities
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Education qualification
· Minimum of first degree in Nutrition, public health or Sociology Public health in education and demonstrated experience with a major in Community Mobilization preferred; combination of work experience and sufficiently related areas of study.
Experience
· At least with a minimum of 3 – 5 years of experience in outreach, communications, advocacy, community mobilization, and behaviour change. Resident in or experience of working in one of the proposed areas of responsibility will be a distinct advantage