Background:
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, including the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control over their future. Founded in 1933, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees and people made to flee from war or disaster. IRC has been working in Ethiopia since 1999 and is implementing integrated, community-managed programs aimed at improving the quality of lives and recovery of livelihood of the disaster-affected population through promoting individual participation, strengthening institutions, and emergency response.
The Mobile Health and Nutrition Team (MHNT) Nurse Officers are responsible for overseeing nutrition screening and case management for SAM and linking MAM with supplementary feeding program. MHNT IMCI activities and the EPI services including providing immunization. She/he will provide counselling on IYCF-E packages including advice for breast feeding. Provide HIV/AIDs counselling, behavior communication and referral of VCT and clinical care. She/he will be supporting the MHNT team leader in liaising with woreda health office to enhance their participation and involvement in prevention, awareness creation and capacity building of woreda based government health staff (HWs & HEWs) and s/he will provide ongoing technical support for gov’t health care providers (HWs and HEWs).
This position will be based at Menz- Gera woreda and will directly report to the MHNT team leader and will also be technically supported by the Senior health and Nutrition Managers, Health and Nutrition Coordinator based in Addis.
Key Technical Responsibilities:
Monitoring and Evaluation
Other duties
Key Working Relationships
Internal
Work with MHNT Team leader, Mide wife Nurse, Sr. health & nutrition coordinator, Health and nutrition coordinator, Assistant health and nutrition coordinator, Sr. Health and Nutrition managers, Admin, Finance, and supply chain based in Addis.
External
Work with Woreda Health Offices, Health extension workers and/ or CVs and health staff of the two health facilities.
Competencies
Education/Experience
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