Nutrition Surveillance Team Leader

Job Description

Title: Nutrition Surveillance Team Leader

Company Name: Action Contre la Faim (ACF)

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master’s/Honours in anthropology, social science, nutrition or any other relevant subject with strong survey/surveillance background.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Nutrition, Surveillance

Job Context:
∎ The Team Leader is primarily responsible for organizing survey activities at planning stage, assist survey supervisor for successful implementation, support data collection in case of dropout and maintain coordination with relevant partners and departments.
∎ Key Contacts:
∎ Health and Nutrition Department: line manager
∎ Health and Nutrition Coordinator & team members: coordination, collaboration and training
∎ Logistics & Finance department : exchange of information and collaboration on financial and planning matters
∎ HR department : exchange of information and collaboration on recruitment, training and, if need be, on team management problems
∎ Other Managers Nutrition, WASH, MHCP & FSL: exchange of information and writing of assessment reports
∎ Nutrition PM- capacity building: coordination and collaboration in development of training materials and facilitation of trainings

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Objective 1: Organize survey activities at field level.
∎ Arrange accommodation, Transportation and Financial issues for each team at field level.
∎ Ensure that all the equipment is maintained in good state.
∎ Ensure that protocols/ consent forms are strictly followed and implemented.
∎ Ensures all equipment is ready at start of day and calibrates measurement instruments on daily basis that measurements are taken and recorded accurately.
∎ Update mapping and household listing in each cluster in coordination with villages/ block leaders and key personals before data collection.
∎ Ensure the survey methodology, sampling procedure are being maintained properly.
∎ Manage the household's selection procedure and ensure all aspects of data collection are collected correctly.
∎ Check all questionnaires for completeness, correct possible errors with the surveyors before leaving each cluster, and train his team if any mistakes.
∎ Ensure technical support to the team.
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∎ Objective 2: To ensure quality of the data collection
∎ Organize briefing meeting with his/her team before departure for data collection in morning.
∎ Ensure that interviewer delivers questionnaire interview and record the information correctly an consistently from household to household.
∎ Ensure the consistency and quality control of the data collected by the team.
∎ Ensure that the anthropometric measurements are taken and recorded in hard copy accurately.
∎ Ensure referral of all identified acute malnourished cases to the existing nutrition program in the camps.
∎ Ensure revisit the household with absent cases/missing data after checking plausibility.
∎ Check all Questionnaires before finalization and report to the survey supervisor.
∎ Regular communicate with survey supervisor/ manager and update.
∎ Provide necessary feedback based on plausibility report.
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∎ Objective : Data and information management:
∎ Submit observation summary note to survey supervisor in each area considering the health, nutrition and socio economic structure, social practices and belief among the communities and target population including problem encountered and solution made during data collection.
∎ Hold meetings with the teams after their return from field.
∎ Proper use of cluster control form, anthropometric back up form etc.
∎ Checked data.
∎ Note and report the problems encountered to the supervisor.
∎ Objective 4. Ensure collaboration with other ACF departments and partners:
∎ Implementation of the surveys in collaboration with the local government authorities and international / national partners.
∎ Represent ACF organization on the field and act as a link between the organization and the community.
∎ Collaboration and collection of information from other potential partners in the field (NGOs, Health structures, community).
∎ Collaboration with ACF nutrition, Food Security, MHCP and WASH field staff & Departments of HR, logistics and finance department.
∎ Collaboration with logistics and finance department for supplying different material for the survey and field movement.
∎ Respect different local partners (population, Local authorities, other NGOs, community leaders).
∎ Maintain good relations between the team and the population; Respect ACF Charter.
∎ Objective 5: Support capacity building of program staff and ACF activities when no implementation a survey:
∎ Assist program Manager to organize the on the job training for the newly recruited staff and volunteers.
∎ Periodic monitoring the quality of anthropometric measurement in GMP sections using MUAC scoring format and provide On Job Training (OJT).
∎ Data entry and cross checking of survey and program monitoring data

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 6 months experience in emergency nutritional and food security programs (preferable)
∎ Experienced in nutritional survey (SMART, SQUEAC, KAP, needs assessments.
∎ Excellent communication skills in English (desirable) and local languages;
∎ Skilled as a translator both English-Local- Bengali
∎ Ability to ask questions and listen without bias;
∎ Sensitivity to a local context;
∎ Clear and understandable hand writing, reliable and friendly
∎ Good knowledge about the geographical location of Cox’s Bazar.
∎ Able to use tablet device for data collection will be advantage.

Salary: Tk. 55000 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus: 1 (Yearly) 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 vary on performance;
∎ End of Contract Benefits - up to 2 months' Gross salary.
∎ Medical coverage: 80% hospitalization coverage medical expenses (max limit BDT 120,000 per year).
∎ Leaves:
∎ 18 days of paid annual leaves per year.
∎ 10 days of paid casual leaves per year.
∎ 14 days of paid sick leaves per year.
∎ Training :
∎ Free and unlimited access to the certifying e-learning platform Cross knowledge ©.
∎ Participation to external training costs upon eligibility of the request.

Application Deadline: December 30, 2019

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

Read Before Apply: This is an contractual position for 6 months. Contract can be extended based on subjective matters.