IYCF Supervisor

Job Description

Title: IYCF Supervisor

Company Name: Terre des hommes - Cox's Bazar

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Graduation and masters in Applied Nutrition/ Nutrition /nutrition science with good academic result

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Field or Project Organizer, Health, NGO/ Other Services

Job Context:
∎ Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is the leading Swiss NGO focusing on child rights. It is active in more than 30 countries with development and emergency projects. Tdh focuses its action on the two following areas of intervention: health and protection of particularly vulnerable children. Modern management and communication tools ensure the quality of Tdh`s projects. The Foundation constantly aims to improve its services.
∎ Following the massive displacement of more than 688,000 people into Bangladesh since end of August 2017, Tdh has put in place an important emergency response plan to provide relief to the Rohingya refugees, notably on nutrition, health, WASH and protection.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Provide technical guidance on IYCF to support staff and other humanitarian actors as necessary to promote consistent good practice
∎ Supervise the Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) components of the nutrition
∎ Ensure the implementation of IYCF activities is conformed to national and international standards and International guidelines
∎ Provide guidance to IYCF counsellor for identification of mothers to become peer educators/ lead mothers within the community, and to support them to undertake sensitization and referral to the MIYCN Corner.
∎ Link between CMAM team and community outreach team (such as promoting excellent communication and referral between IYCF counselor, community outreach activities)
∎ Overall responsibility for the day-to-day management of project site activities and staff (such as IYCF activities in MIYCN corner, IYCF staff, lay counsellors and lead mothers, volunteers)
∎ Ensure all staff understand and implement program guidelines used for assessing the mother-child pair, advising the best feeding option and following up as appropriate;
∎ Ensure appropriate and consistent education messaging to mothers and other caregiver at all programming contact points and in the community
∎ Provide technical guidance to support Tdh OTP and community outreach staff to promote consistent good practices including breatfeeding counselling for mothers experiencing difficulties in breastfeeding (including demonstration and breastfeeding techniques and supporting re-lactation)
∎ Ensure the implementation and the good functioning of Mother to Mother Support Groups (MtMSG)
∎ Ensure a regular supervision of the different IYCF activities implement on the field (MtMSGs, IYCF counseling etc)
∎ Participation in implementing policy and practice changes as outlined in agreed guidelines
∎ Participate in the improvement of M&E tools and indicators
∎ Prepare daily, weekly and monthly statistical reports of IYCF with the help of IYCF counselor
∎ Facilitate the scheduling of outreach worker/volunteer for follow-up of caregiver of children with breastfeeding difficulties at home or any related IYCF difficulties at home
∎ Facilitate the development of monthly work plans for the MIYCN corner and the educational group session
∎ Compile monthly activity reports for the MIYCN corner as required

Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Must be fluent in English (speaking, reading & writing)
∎ Fluent in local languages - Chittagonian, Rohingya, etc. - will be an asset (ability to communicate with the Rohingya population)
∎ Work experience with other NGO's would be an asset
∎ Experience in individual/group counselling
∎ At least one or two year of experience in the implementation of Nutrition projects, preferably in humanitarian contexts
∎ Knowledge and skills
∎ Computer literacy and familiarity with Microsoft Office (Word, Power Point presentations, and Excel spreadsheets)
∎ Strong interpersonal skills & excellent team player
∎ Ability to manage a fair workload including emergencies
∎ A commitment to excellence; attention to detail
∎ Culturally and gender based sensitive ? Creates an environment to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding ? Ability to adapt
∎ Good communication skills
∎ Ability to work under stress in general, and in emergency situations in particular
∎ Flexibility and humour
∎ Responsive, motivated, good communicator
∎ Strong motivation to help people in need, passionate about improving the lives of children
∎ Well organized and hard worker
∎ Reliability
∎ Neutrality
∎ Able to check validity of information, logical thinking.
∎ Agree to comply with Tdh Code of Conduct and promote Child Safeguarding policy, Policy on the Protection Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and the Policy on (Sexual) Harassment and Abuse of Authority.
∎ Report serious cases of abuse on children that she/he would be aware of in Tdh’s intervention locations. Strict confidentiality must be respected.
∎ Adhere to and enforce current administrative and logistical regulations and procedures.
∎ Tdh intervenes without any affiliation for politics, religion or financial profit. He/she will direct his or her activities and engagements without preoccupation of political, racial or religious affiliation.

Salary: Tk. 55400 (Monthly)

Application Deadline: July 31, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Terre des hommes - Cox's Bazar
∎ Address : Sayeman Heritage, (floor 2), Building no - 01, Sayeman Road, Baharchara, Cox's Bazar
∎ Web : www.tdh.ch/en
∎ Business : Terre des hommes is the leading Swiss child relief agency, improving the lives of millions of the world`s most vulnerable children. TDH is a humanitarian non-Governmental, non-political, neutral and non-profit international organisation (INGO). TDH working in Bangladesh since 1974 and its work focused on Health, Nutrition and Child Relief. The Organization is considering interventions in Nutrition at Coxs Bazar among the displaced people from Myanmar

Category: NGO/Development