Assistant Project Officer - IMAM

Job Description

Title: Assistant Project Officer - IMAM

Company Name: Action Contre la Faim (ACF)

Vacancy: 4

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Pekua)

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Graduation in Bachelor Degree in relevant subject. Master degree in Nutrition/ Public Health is appreciable.
∎ Skills Required: Good in english

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): acute malnutrition, Care Practices, Imam, SFP

Job Context:
∎ Contract Duration - up to June 2020 (with possibility of extension).
∎ Start date - asap.
∎ Under overall guidance and supervision of line manager and in close coordination with partner staff s/he will ensure that the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition program (I-MAM) is functioning properly, providing care of quality to all the beneficiaries, respecting protocols and principles of good practice.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Make sure the screening, detection and referral mechanism through the network of volunteers is in place.
∎ Ensure screening of U5 children at household level through the community nutrition volunteers / community workers.
∎ Ensure high quality of anthropometric assessments and registration at OTP sites and SFP.
∎ Ensure all the children with the MUAC of <125 mm referred from community to the center for nutritional treatments.
∎ Ensure the arrival and admission of SAM children in the OTP sites and MAM children in the SFP (if the service available).
∎ Ensure all the equipment’s are ready at start of day.
∎ Ensure the community mobilization through the network of volunteers.
∎ Ensure that the measurers are taking accurate measurements (weight, height, MUAC, checking oedema and W/H percentages).
∎ Ensure the accurate record of information related to each beneficiary (Identities, anthropometric measurements, systematic treatment, etc).
∎ Ensure that the eligible children are admitted in the OTP sites / SFP according to the admission criteria.
∎ Explain and make sure the OTP /SFP staff explain to new admissions on the modalities used in the program.
∎ Health and nutrition education is in place and all the beneficiaries benefiting.
∎ Ensure that the calculation of therapeutic food is adequate according to the treatment protocols.
∎ Ensure that each beneficiary is receiving the adequate quantity of ration according to the protocols.
∎ Make sure adequate record of beneficiaries in the OTP sites / SFP: total number of in charge beneficiaries, number of new admissions, number of present beneficiaries, number of absence and defaulters / follow up is in place, number of cured, number of readmission, number of transfer to other programs and valuation of progress (gain of weight, length of stay, etc.).
∎ Ensure adequate follow up of referral cases, absentees and defaulters from OTP sites / SFP
∎ Identification of absentees and defaulters form program and organizing home visiting through Community Nutrition Volunteers.
∎ Follow up and cross checking of referral cases between communities, OTP, health facilities and SFP.
∎ Ensure stock cards are correctly filled in and followed up (in, out, consumption and expiry dates of all the items).
∎ Ensure prepare and submit store requisition for OTP sites /SFP and submit to the nutrition supervisor.
∎ Ensure adequate supply and stock of food and non-food items in each OTP site and SFP.
∎ Supervise the quality of service in the OTP sites and SFP.
∎ Ensure that hygiene and sanitation correct practices are in place of the OTP sites / SFP.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Ability to manage staff according to local culture.

Salary: Tk. 36574 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus: 1-month Gross salary every year.
∎ Provident Fund: 7.5% of Basic Salary.
∎ Performance Bonus: from 30 % to 80% of monthly Gross salary per year depending on performance.
∎ End of Contract Benefits: As per organization policy.
∎ Medical coverage: 80% hospitalization coverage medical expenses (max limit BDT 120,000 per year).
∎ 18 days of paid annual leave per year.
∎ 10 days of paid casual leave per year.
∎ 14 days of paid sick leave per year.
∎ Paternity Leave, Compassionate Leave, Maternity Leave and Marriage Leave.
∎ Birth Allowance and Marriage Allowance.
∎ Mobile Allowance and Food Allowance.
∎ Free and unlimited access to the certifying e-learning platform Cross knowledge.

Application Deadline: January 28, 2020

Company Information:
∎ Action Contre la Faim (ACF)
∎ Address : Orin Tower, House # 23, Road # 113/A, Gulshan - 2, Dhaka 1212
∎ Web : www.actioncontrelafaim.org
∎ Business : Action Contre la Faim | Action Against Hunger is a humanitarian non-Governmental, non-political, neutral and non-profit international organization (INGO) that was established in France in 1979 to deliver aid in countries throughout the world. The aim of Action Against Hunger is to save lives by combating Hunger and Disasters that threaten the Lives of vulnerable Children, Women & Men. Since 2007, Action Against Hunger has been providing assistance to vulnerable populations in Bangladesh in the arena of Nutrition & Health, Mental Health & Care Practices (MHCP), Food Security & Livelihoods (FSL & DRR), and Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WaSH).

Category: NGO/Development