ROLE PURPOSE

Save the Children has been implementing nutrition programmes in Wajir County for more than 10 years, with a progressive focus on health system strengthening approaches, particularly since the devolved government system was put in place.  Save the Children, through BHA funds intends to mount an immediate response to mitigate the situation and to cushion the vulnerable population affected by the drought. The overall objective of this project is to increase access to nutrition sensitive recovery interventions for pregnant women and children in Wajir.

The Outreach Assistant, will be part of the County health and nutrition response team and will play a critical role in scaling up lifesaving health and nutrition interventions for children and pregnant women in the targeted sub-counties.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Programme Implementation

• Support day to day implementation of integrated health and nutrition outreach services that entails; WASH activities, health, nutrition and child protection issues.
• Conduct health education, hygiene promotion and disseminate child protection messages during field activity
• Support mass screening, joint supervision with DOH in the targeted sub-counties.
• Prepare and submit field trip reports, take part in the development of weekly reports
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor
• Plan and  prepare project activities , sign TOR prior activity implementation.
• support baby friendly community initiatives (BFCI) IMAM surge and mother led MUAC.
• Coordinate regular health and nutrition program assessments to identify opportunities for expansion and improvements in program effectiveness, efficiency and efficacy.
• Lead on capacity building of community health volunteers (CHVs) and community Health extension (CHEWs) worker in various topic in health and nutrition.
• Support Implementation Management of at risk mother and infant who are less than 6 month (MAMI)
• Supervise Maternal Infant and Young Child programme conducted by CHEWs and CHVs.
• Support CHVs to conduct screening and referral for pregnant women and children with malnutrition and to carry out follow up and tracing.
• Support sensitisation and on the job mentoring of   Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs)/health facility in-charges on various health and nutrition to topics.
• Support the DOH to Carry out Social Behaviour Change Communication on maternal, infant and young child nutrition.
• Work collaboratively to integrate the health and nutrition program with other sectors where appropriate, particularly with WASH, FSL and Protection.
• Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team and other nutrition and health staff for monitoring and evaluation of project activities especially those related to nutrition emergency response work within the project, including preparation of monitoring reports, documents and lessons learned.
• Submission of activity reports.
• Carry out regular health facility and group monitoring visits and facilitate and attend facility review meetings to provide support.
• Prepare payment at the end of the project activity

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Diploma in Nursing from a recognised institution.
• Registration certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya
• Valid practicing license from the Nursing Council of Kenya
• Minimum 1 years of relevant professional work experience in health and nutrition programming in Humanitarian context.
•  understanding of the MOH and county health departments
• Effective working relationships with stakeholders from government agencies and opinion-leaders.
• Experience in training and capacity building.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide array of organizations
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Desirable

• Good knowledge of the nutrition and health field.
• Good presentation and persuasion skills.
• Experience of policy research, having written and published policy reports and briefings and evaluating evidence of their impact.