The purpose of the CMAM Nurse/ Junior Nurse position is to provide overall technical, and organizational support and play a support and facilitation role in the community-based management of acute malnutrition in communities. she/he is assigned, including technology, best practices awareness creation, linkages, and behavioral change through education, information, and communication. She/he supports people’s empowerment, collective action and solidarity, social cohesion and inclusion, and 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 relationships with communities and community organizations in her/his working area 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 facilitate 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 ensures that the participation of each community group in problem identification, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of TFP

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

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

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

• Supports and facilitates the development of action plans 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 the kebele level;

• Prepares final action plan by breaking it down into quarters and months, submits it to her/his supervisor, and ensures 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 organize, and build skills and knowledge of caretakers 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

• Arrange/facilitate cross visits and conduct capacity-building on-site training 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 relevant government stakeholders/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 part of the plan for the kebeles

• Closely works with primary health care facilities; health posts, health centers CNVs, and communities at kebele and village level to ensure adequate linkages are established.

% of Time: 15%

Job Responsibility #4: Reporting and Learning

• Support quality recording and documentation of nutrition data in OTP/SC sites

• Prepares weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports and submits it to her/his supervisor

• Supports and facilitates community involvement in annual innovation and knowledge fairs

• Collects basic information, best practices, case studies, and lessons and reports to her/his supervisor

• Conduct malnutrition causal mapping and arrange outreach sessions in identified kebeles or villages.

• Use nutrition data for local decisions or decision-making with his/her supervisor

• Undertakes personal professional development initiatives identified with his/her supervisor

% of Time: 15%

Job Responsibility #6: Perform other duties as assigned.

% of Time: 5%

III PROBLEM SOLVING (Thinking Environment)

• The level of problem-solving this position will face is level number two. What has to be done and how to do it are clearly defined, and the incumbent will face identical or similar problems regularly.

IV GENDER EQUALITY

• Understanding and demonstrating commitment to the importance of gender, youth, and social inclusion issues.

• Demonstrated commitment to principles of Gender Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and PSEAH (safeguarding), as evidenced in previous positions/programming

Salary - 648$

Job Requirements

V QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW-HOW)

A EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

• BSc in Nursing

B EXPERIENCE

Required:

• At least two years of emergency nutrition-related work experience

• Experience in community-based nutrition intervention preferably in community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM)

• Knowledge and practical experience of the national/international therapeutic /supplemental feeding protocols/guidelines

• Experience in standard nutrition data management and reporting

• Skill in facilitating job training for health workers, HEWs, and CNVs

• Field experience in community mobilization

• Previous experience in pastoralist communities

Desired:

• Knowledge of the local language is preferred (Oromifa)

• NGO experience

• Communication skills, good human relations, willingness to reside in rural areas;

• Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality, sensitivity to HIV/AIDS, conceptual understanding of participatory approach, and sustainable development.

C COMPETENCIES:

• Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, stress tolerance, information monitoring, developing teams, interpersonal skills, coaching, problem-solving, planning and organizing.

D CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• The CMAM Nurse is expected to establish open relationships with the community, government counterparts, and other community-based organizations to facilitate and encourage active participation in overall development activities and internally, with Supervisors, Project Managers, and other concerned FOs staff.

E LIVING CONDITIONS:

• The CMAM Nurse is based in the project woreda and lives in the community. She/he can travel on foot long distances (50%) and stand about 30% during training sessions.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified applicants can apply online using THIS LINK