CMAM NURSE TSFP- TELEMT - NORTH GONDER

I JOB SUMMARY: 

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, including 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.

II RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS: 

Job Responsibility #1 Technical Support  and facilitate community action planning and targeting

• Support and facilitates emergency nutrition  program participants in the identification and prioritization of project beneficiaries as per the national protocol 

• 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 TFP

• Ensures CARE’s key program principles of accountability, empowerment, non discrimination are followed in community analysis and action plans; 

• Facilitates based community-based nutrition assessment and analysis and targeting along with Community Nutrition Volunteers (CNVs), Health development armies and responsible body from the Kebele’s;

• Supports and facilitates the development of action plan for their respective OTP/SC sites;

• Supports and facilitates the development of action plan for their respective OTP/SC sites 

• Assesses health, nutrition, hygiene and sanitation related problems;

• Review the plan with the partners and representatives of the community and including her/his supervisor at kebele level;

• Prepares final action plan by breaking down in to quarters and months and submit it to her/his supervisor and make sure the same is done at health facilities with OTP/SC.

% of Time:  30%          

Job Responsibility #2:  Facilitate implementation of project activities and monitoring

• Support and facilitate the establishment of new OTP/SC sites and strengthen the existing OTP/SC sites. 

• Supports community mobilization of beneficiaries along with CNVs, and Health development armies;

• Facilities, organizes, and builds skill and knowledge of care takers on appropriate feeding practices, basic hygiene and sanitation 

• Ensures that activity implementation is informed by CARE’s core rights-based approaches and principles, gender equity, and community level advocacy in particular; 

• Provides technical and organizational assistance to CNVs, Health  Development armies, kebele, and village representatives and community members;

• Supports regular capacity assessment activities conducted for health institutions; 

• Holds demonstration and awareness creation sessions on health, nutrition, hygiene and sanitation in OTP/SC sites, and supplementary food distribution 

• Arranges/facilitates cross visits and conducts capacity building on site trainings for Health Extension Workers (HEWs), nurses, Health development Armies, and CNVs;

• Builds capacity of CNVs, Health Development Armies and committees, undertakes participatory monitoring of project implementation works, and records lessons learned and reports to her/his supervisor.

% of Time: 35%           

Job Responsibility #3: Strengthen partnership, institutional linkages and working relationship

• Selects CNVs, and other volunteers  from the community together with with relevant government stake holders/partners and arranges training for them along with the CMAM supervisor  ;

• Represents CARE at woreda and  kebele (s) level as a member of the health task force ;

• Strongly works to make the plan of the project to be part of the plan for the kebeles 

• Closely works with primary health ca