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ROLE

• In close consultation with the Nawiri SBC Project Officers (PO) in each county and Nawiri consortium partners, the intern will learn while providing support to the implementation of planned health and nutrition activities. These will include:
• Participating in Nawiri weekly activity planning.
• Support last mile Nawiri frontline staff in integration of SBC activities within programming.
• In collaboration with the County departments of health promotion team and community health, support community members in understanding the SBC activities and enhancing experiential learning amongst anchor groups and community engagement sessions.
• Support Health Facility providers in ensuring follow up and linkage to community-based SBC activities.
• Support the Food and Market Systems team, to ensure proper linkage and audience-based segmentation and targeting for social marketing of products and foods.
• In collaboration with home economics team in the County government support marketing and linkages to production related activities and demand creation strategies for local foods and vegetables including fish.
• Participate and support monitoring and measuring of outputs related to SBC interventions and in liaison with the accountability and learning team, ensure community feedback is monitored and acted upon and that learning around SBC interventions is documented and shared at all levels.
• Support compiling of activity reports and field visit reports at end the of each activity using standard tools including weekly progress reports.
• Participate in team meetings as part of learning.
• Any other activities assigned by the line manager.
• Travel Required: 70% of the time to targeted wards.

QUALIFICATIONS

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in one of the following or related fields: Anthropology, sociology, psychology, marketing, communication, or international public health/nutrition with a possible specialization in behavioural science.
• Ability to work in a dynamic team with colleagues of different backgrounds, to develop new ideas and perspectives in a team environment.
• Must be a local resident of Isiolo or Marsabit county (depending on the county applied for) and can speak at least one local language in Isiolo and Marsabit in addition to English and Kiswahili
• Demonstrated ability to work successfully in diverse geographic and cultural settings.
• Proficiency in the use of computer applications
• Demonstrated commitment to respect, equity, diversity, and inclusion including gender equality.
• Completed studies in the relevant field within the last two years.
• Willingness to travel to the field and remote community areas as required