Health and Nutrition Promoter

Job Description

Title: Health and Nutrition Promoter

Company Name: Concern Worldwide

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Diploma or Certificate in Nutrition or Public Health related field

Job Context:
∎ Type of Contract: Contract up to 31st August 2022
∎ Job Purpose: Promotion of adoption of the recommended maternal, infant and young child nutrition practices at household level, for improved nutrition of pregnant and lactating women and children under 2 years, through the Mother Care Group approach.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Project Implementation:
∎ Train Lead Mothers on Nutrition and the Mother Care Group approach, for promotion of recommended nutrition practices at household level
∎ Identify and mobilize husbands and mothers in law of pregnant and lactating women for nutrition for social and behaviour change communication
∎ Select project beneficiaries with respect and impartiality, and ensuring the required coverage of the project areas.
∎ Identify and mobilize all pregnant and lactating women and mothers of children under 2 years, form household caregiver groups and facilitate selection of Lead Mothers
∎ Mobilize selected Lead Mothers and their husbands and form Mother Care Groups, with informed consent, ensuring 100% coverage of the project area.
∎ Conduct monthly sessions with Lead Mothers, following the recommended social and behaviour change communication methods such as ASPIRE method, covering monthly topics on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition
∎ Conduct support supervision for Lead Mothers as they train their respective household caregiver groups on the monthly topics
∎ Build capacity of Lead Mothers to report on the monthly activities of the household caregiver groups, using pictorial reporting tools
∎ Conduct home visits for Lead Mothers to follow up the personal commitments to behaviour change in their own homes and discuss challenges and ways forward
∎ Conduct monthly topic review meetings with Lead Mothers, to get feedback on cascading of sessions to household caregiver groups, and agree on the way forward
∎ Support the development of a pictorial book of innovative nutritious meals recipes for maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, through participatory cooking sessions
∎ Distribute project materials to target beneficiaries, and promote the utilization as per project design, to achieve project objectives
∎ Conduct on-the-job coaching to the Lead Mothers on a regular basis to maintain high quality and accountability to beneficiaries, all the way to the household level.
∎ Coordination:
∎ Mobilize community leaders and influential persons for sensitization meetings to ensure buy in and beneficiaries trust and willingness to participate in the project
∎ Liaise with other Concern project field teams to ensure integration of all projects within Concern Worldwide, for smooth operation and mutual support.
∎ Human Resource Management:
∎ Ensure an enabling, friendly, collaborative and professional working culture with fellow staff and beneficiaries and adherence to Concern policies and procedures.
∎ Monitoring and Evaluation.
∎ Participate in regular team meetings to discuss activity progress and learning.
∎ Work with Nutrition Assistant to identify and address implementation bottlenecks.
∎ Support MEAL team in data collection for surveys and evaluations.
∎ Ensure the feedback mechanism for accountability to beneficiaries is operational in the project areas.
∎ Reporting:
∎ Share weekly field activities updates with the Nutrition Assistant.
∎ Work with MEAL to build the capacity of the Lead Mothers to use the pictorial M&E tools.
∎ Accountability :
∎ In line with Concern's commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS):
∎ actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle (planning, implementation, M&E);
∎ work with relevant colleagues to ensure that the Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) is functional and accessible, that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed;
∎ Work with relevant colleagues to ensure that information about CRM, safeguarding and expected staff behaviour is disseminated among programme participants and communities.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Experience in community nutrition, IYCF, and/or mother care groups is required
∎ Good knowledge of the Rohingya refugee context is required
∎ The ability to communicate fluently in the Rohingya language or Chittagonian is required
∎ Experience working with older people over 60 years would be an advantage

Salary: Tk. 31019 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Monthly Hardship Allowance of BDT 10,000/-, Bonus (02), Group life and Hospitalisation Insurance coverages, OPD coverage, Mobile ceiling as per organisational policy

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 30 Mar 2022

Company Information:
∎ 24 Mar 2022
∎ Concern Worldwide
∎ Business : Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world`s poorest countries. With its head quarter in Ireland, Concern has been working in Bangladesh since 1972.

Category: NGO/Development