The role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; ore because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Staff Directly Reporting to this Post: 3

Dotted line relationship- Health & Nutrition Team

Dimensions: Save the Children works in 9 regions in Ethiopia with a current staff complement of approximately 1,800 staff and current expenditure of approximately $90+ million each year.

• • Coordinate mobile health and nutrition response package in assigned woreda with excellent liaise with primary health care unit directorate.
  • Responsible to establish and lead effective mobile health and nutrition team in assigned woreda.
  • Responsible for multi sectoral initial rapid assessment data collection and analysis when needed.
  • Responsible to represent and advocate key project deliverables and outcome brought by the organization in assigned woreda.
  • Responsible to prepare project detail implementation plan and procurement plan.
  • Prepare terms of reference (TOR), organize and facilitate training, review meeting and draw best lessons/practice.
  • Ensure key accountability issues addressed during the implementation of project deliverables.
  • Improving basic preventive health care at community level with emphasis health, immunization, and health and nutrition services.
  • Conduct & undertake PHC like consultation & provide proper treatment based on the protocol.
  • Strengthening of linkages and coordination mechanisms between community and the woreda health bureaus.
  • Plan and implement project outlined in the protocol for OTP and SC to achieve objectives of the project.
  • The health and nutrition Officer will help facilitate admission of the patient at the OTP, and SC.
  • Ensure each admitted child receives adequate and quality clinical and nutritional care through existing resources.
  • Ensure  at all times adequately equipped and supplied with the necessary nutritional and clinical requirements - Plumpy'nut, Vitamin A, routine drugs, nutritional equipment’s, nutritional/medical stationeries, etc.
  • Assisting the planning and promotion of awareness creation on nutrition and preventative health care issues in the community.
  • Capacitate the competency of Health Extension workers in delivery of compressive primary health care service at health post.
  •  Perform other extra duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• • BSc in Nursing/Health Officer and/or other health related fields.
  • At least Four years working experience in the field out of which two years NGO experience in related field
  • Experienced in leading mobile nutrition and health project implementation.
  • Trained on IMNCI/ICCM/CBNC and PHEM.
  • Good written and spoken ability of the local language.
  • Excellent report writing competency.
  • Extremely flexible, able to work independently, and have the ability to cope with stressful situations and frustrations.
  • Interest in and ability to work in team.
  • Good organizational and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability and willingness to work in remote and potentially insecure environments.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITY

• The position holder must have excellent interpersonal skills, flexibility and Relations to his team members.
• The position holder must have an ability that he can manage when it comes to reach hard decisions to across the barrier.
• The position holder should have a good interrelation ship with others and must now local language (Oromiffa)

Scope & complexity of decision making

• Able to work in line with strict adherence of specific policies and supervisor’s order.
• Expected to make decisions on well-established procedures, under close supervision.
• Able to make decisions using creativity and some independent judgement within realm of current scope of work; Decisions typically made in order to resolve and adapt current solutions or introduce new procedures and practices.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same.
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
• Future orientated, thinks strategically

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters.
• Values diversity sees it as a source of competitive strength.
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
• Willing to take disciplined risks

1. Honest, encourages openness and transparency