Job Description

Title: IYCF Counselor

Company Name: Social Assistance and Rehabilitation for the Physically Vulnerable (SARPV)

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's & Master degree or equivalent in Nutrition & Food science. At least 01 years of experience in camp context or in relevant field.

Job Context:
∎ Social Assistance and Rehabilitation for the Physically Vulnerable (SARPV) is a non- government, non-profit, Bangladeshi organization providing lifesaving nutrition support to the FDMN Rohingya people of Cox`s Bazar under its integrated nutrition programme. As part of Nutrition interventions in support with WFP & UNICEF, SARPV is working for the treatment and prevention of malnutrition among under 5 children, adolescent, pregnant & lactating women in Rohingya community.
∎ Employment Status: Contractual, until 31st December 2022.
∎ Job Location: Kutupalong, Cox`s Bazar.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Ensure adequate health and nutrition education and counselling sessions in the center.
∎ Welcoming the caregivers and beneficiaries warmly.
∎ Explain the treatment, prevention and follow up procedures of the nutrition facility, especially regular presence and follow up of the activities.
∎ Explain the importance of hygiene and sanitation in the center and at home (nail cutting, hand washing procedure and timing).
∎ Conduct health and nutrition education and counselling session (breastfeeding counseling, complementary feeding, hygiene, care of pregnant and lactating women, proper advices to the caregivers and the beneficiaries on the proper way of feeding, especially for children) according to the schedule.
∎ To counsel the caregivers of vulnerable children (severe and moderate underweight) about the necessity of good practices to combat undernutrition.
∎ To encourage caregivers with children with good nutritional status, so that they would maintain the same care all the time.
∎ To conduct the adolescent counselling sessions.
∎ Mother to Mother Support Group (MtMSG) formation and session conduction
∎ Provide support to the Nutrition Site Supervisor and Outreach Supervisor to identify lead mothers and form Mother to Mother Support Group (MtMSG).
∎ Conduct the sessions according to the plan and schedule.
∎ Ensure graduation of the groups timely.
∎ Ensure proper documentation (e.g. attendance, bill, session topics, resolution, minutes etc.) of the sessions.
∎ Follow up visits in the nutrition center
∎ Follow up and receiving feedbacks on the previous topics of health and nutrition education and counselling sessions.
∎ To identify responsive beneficiaries and encourage others using positive deviance method.
∎ Follow up of the hygiene and sanitation rules in the center and at home.
∎ To inform the dates and days of next visit and explain the importance of attending within due period.
∎ Reporting and statistic
∎ Conduct rapid and full assessment according to the programme need.
∎ To submit a monthly report on the number of sessions occurred and number of beneficiaries attended.
∎ Record findings and feedback of the beneficiaries and their caregivers on health and nutrition educations.
∎ Evaluate the improvement of caregivers' knowledge on health and nutrition related topics.
∎ To keep a daily tally on the number of responsive caregivers.
∎ Report any kind of problems to the Line Manager immediately.
∎ Any other relevant assignment given by the Line Manager/Supervisor.

Salary:
∎ BDT-58,875/=

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 20 Sep 2022

Company Information:
∎ 14 Sep 2022
∎ Social Assistance and Rehabilitation for the Physically Vulnerable (SARPV)
∎ Address : Social Assistance and Rehabilitation for the Physically Vulnerable (SARPV) 274/4 (3rd Floor), South Monipur (60 feet Road), Mirpur, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh.
∎ Web : www.sarpv.org
∎ Business : Social Assistance and Rehabilitation for the Physically Vulnerable (SARPV) is devoted to work for the most underprivileged and marginalized vulnerable groups of the society for their socioeconomic development to transform them as productive human resource with a dignified lifestyle. People with Disability are the prime focus of our every work. Along with the disability issue SARPV is also intervening in various sensitive issues like poverty eradication, educational support, health service providing, establishing rights, climate change and DRM, skill development to integrate the vulnerable groups in the mainstream of society those who are leading life with uncertainty in the society.

Category: NGO/Development

Source: bdjobs.com

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