IYCF Counsellor (Female only)

Job Description

Title: IYCF Counsellor (Female only)

Company Name: Concern Worldwide

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's degree in Nutrition, Nursing/Paramedic or any other related field from a reputable university.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Ensuring that the IYCF counselling implementation plan is developed jointly with the team and delivered timely and effectively to ensure improvement in the nutrition status of the project participants beyond project end.
∎ To facilitate effective counselling to beneficiaries to bring positive change in their infant feeding practices with the minimum resources towards achieving objective.
∎ Ensuring support to beneficiaries when required.
∎ Supporting volunteers to screen and identify mothers of children 0-23 months with breastfeeding difficulties and non-breastfed infants.
∎ Counseling mothers to ensure proper breastfeeding practices.
∎ Counseling mothers and caretakers to ensure proper infant and young child feeding practices.
∎ Supporting the referral of visibly severely wasted children 0-5 months for inpatient care.
∎ Leading activities for IYCF-E in the Mother Baby Spaces.
∎ Working with volunteers to expand the reach of the counselling activities.
∎ Ensuring quality of IYCF-E sensitization provided by volunteers during house to house visits.
∎ Perform house to house visits to especially vulnerable infants.
∎ Ensure support to at risk Mothers and Infants (0-6 month).
∎ Participating actively in team planning and other meetings, working to set common objectives and goals and striving to ensure these are successfully achieved.
∎ Ensuring the participation in monthly reporting and other relevant reporting within project areas that could contribute to bring effective result at project level, including preparing weekly IYCF-E report

Additional Requirements:
∎ Around 2 years progressively responsible work experience in the area of IYCF.
∎ Experience with community mobilization.
∎ Experience in working with team and governments.
∎ Have good knowledge on Rohingya refugee programmes.
∎ Female required, as will provide one to one counselling on breastfeeding.
∎ Academic requirement could be flexible for candidates with relevant work experience.

Salary: Tk. 37163 (Monthly)

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

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 18 Apr 2021

Company Information:
∎ 15 Apr 2021
∎ 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

Source: bdjobs.com

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