Health & Nutrition Zonal Coordinator – Save the Children
Development and Project Management, Health Care
Save the Children
Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In Ethiopia and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
Save the Children Ethiopia works in 9 regions in Ethiopia with a current staff complement of approximately 2,500 staff. The size of the programme and the amount of human, financial and material resources put into it as well as the requirements of different donors requires substantial amount of quality and efficient human resource. This makes Save the Children an exciting place to work.
Accordingly, Save the Children Ethiopia is looking to hire creative individuals who have the experience and competencies to work; support the development of an organisational culture that reflects dual mandate values; help establish, maintain, and improve active and regular working relationships with host government authorities, partner agencies including humanitarian and development donors, and local and international NGOs; ensure Ethiopia Country Office complies with all Save the Children Management Operating Standards and Standard Operating Procedures and that all required support is provided promptly, at scale and in line with the rules and principles.
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Prepares quarter plan, participates in annual budget development, and ensures that Growth through Nutrition activities are fully harmonized with zonal, and health sector annual plans.
- Coordinates and technically supports zonal, woreda, and local stakeholders to assess needs related to nutrition to enhance the implementation of Growth through Nutrition activities.
- Conduct routine assessment to find the real demands of the woredas affected by the conflict and review the crisis modifier activities accordingly.
- Develops terms of reference and facilitates trainings, meetings, and joint supportive supervision visits that will be conducted at zonal and woreda levels.
- Submits training reports, review-meeting proceedings, and field travel reports to regional offices timely for documentation.
- Ensures multi-sectoral coordination of nutrition interventions at zonal, woreda and community levels.
- Ensure that nutrition guidelines, minimum nutrition standards, quality improvement on nutrition specific services, Health Management Information Systems (HMIS), and monitoring tools are implemented in National Nutrition Program target zones and woredas.
- Provides technical support through regular and joint supportive supervision visits to Woreda Health, health facilities, and communities.
- Ensures the nutrition agenda is highlighted during regular zonal and woreda level review meetings.
- In collaboration with MEAL manager, strengthens the capacity of Zonal/Woreda Health Offices and community in nutrition and HMIS.
- Supports the Zonal Health Department in mentoring and follow-up of project trained health workers (HWs) and community members in implementing planned nutrition and WASH activities at all levels (zone, facility, and community).
- Ensures Growth through Nutrition selected HWs are trained as per the national guideline.
- Ensures the provision of appropriate mentoring and on-job training for HWs at targeted health facilities using project tools.
- Support health facilities ensure sustained supplies of nutrition commodities
- Ensures that resources allocated reach the right beneficiaries, for the right objective, and in a timely manner.
- Ensure the distribution materials that purchased for the crisis modifier at woreda as well as at the health facility level.
- Ensures that all donor compliance and Save the Children rules and regulations are strictly followed during day-to-day program operations.
- Collaborate with partners who are working on nutrition government sectors to ensure planning and implementation of Growth through Nutrition convergence and layering activities.
- Ensures Growth through Nutrition activities are included in woreda annual implementation plans.
- Implements gender-sensitive activities related to nutrition at zonal, woreda, and kebele level.
- Prepare and submit periodic reports, document and share lessons, challenges and best practices regularly
- Performs other related tasks as required.
General:
Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
In order to be successful you will bring/have:
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Minimum of first degree in Nutrition, Public Health, or Nursing and health/nutrition related fields of study
- At least six years of experience in implementing Health, Nutrition and/or related programs in Ethiopia.
· Excellent and demonstrated computer skills Microsoft office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Competency in spoken and written English language
- Speak/understand local (regional) language
- An understanding of and commitment to Save the Children values.
Desired
- Experience/knowledge of supporting USAID funded grants with good understanding of Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP), National Nutrition program (NNP) and other health and nutrition related policies & strategies.
- Significant training experience (e.g. MIYCN, updated CMAM, QI, BINLM, 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.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, as well as the proven ability to work collaboratively with many organizations and stakeholders. Experience working with private sector, government agencies and beneficiaries on livelihoods programs.
- Knowledge and learning ability to integrate gender issues in nutrition focused interventions
· Demonstrated skills in partnership building and interpersonal communication.
· Experience in NGO setup
· Excellent in report writing skills
· Experience working in the region and understanding of local context
TRAVEL
· 60-65 percent
We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector. The duty station of the position holder will be in Kewot, Woldiya, Lay Gaint, Ebnat, Debark and Fonote Selam for 4 Months. This role is offered on the basis of national terms and conditions only.
