The Health and Nutrition Officer- will be responsible for supporting all Health and nutrition activities for ECHO_SAFE supported Health facilities in West Khordofan. Responsibilities will includes supporting health service planning, management and governance system in targeted health facilities (HFs), strengthening technical capacity of health facility staffs to ensure quality of care in maternal, new-born, child health and nutrition services and work with health facilities to anticipate, prepare for and respond to health shocks.

Main duties & Responsibilities: 

Program Planning, Implementation, and Monitoring
            • Work closely with the Project Manager and Health & Nutrition Coordinator to ensure health service planning, management and governance, improve quality of care and capacity of the health facility to anticipate and respond to shock
            • Ensure integration of the Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) and optimal Infant and Child Feeding (IYCF) component of the nutrition program into the Primary Healthcare in Concern.
             • Ensure adherence to the current SAM management protocols in OTP/TSFP sites
             • Help with activity verification and monitoring (stock and program quality) at supported facilities to ensure smooth, high-quality program implementation
             • Support to strengthen planning, review and coordination activities in all targeted HFs and LHA
             • Strengthen Health Management Information Systems for data management and data analysis (HMIS,DHIS2)
             • Strengthening health facility capacity and readiness to provide primary health care services during disease surge and increased demand for displaced population due to conflict and plan support based on gaps.
             • Support mobile service delivery to expand services in health emergences
             • Support to establish process of quality monitoring and continuous quality improvement process.
             • Facilitate training on quality of care and supportive supervision
             • Facilitate basic and refresher training to further strengthen technical capacity of health facility staff
             • Help with activity verification and monitoring (stock and program quality) at supported facilities to ensure smooth, high-quality program implementation

             • Facilitate coordination meetings, advocacy meetings and awareness raising sessions at the community level, together with community health promoters
             • Assist the Health & Nutrition Coordinator to prepare project teams weekly and monthly work plans.
             • Collect and compile project data regularly to submit to the Health & Nutrition Coordinator, including case studies, success stories and photographs of facilities.
             • Provide regular updates on Nutrition supplies and routine medicines stock and request as needed.
             • Ensure program targets are met using indicator / activity tracking table
             • Take lead in the planning and execution of training programs for Concern and SMOH nutrition staff.
Coordination and Representation
             • Do active networking with nutrition stakeholders such as SMoH, WHO, WFP and UNICEF.
             • Participate in the nutrition coordination meetings at state level and represent Concern in technical meetings as needed.
             • Represent Concern in technical nutrition missions conducted by stakeholders and UN agencies.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
             • Responsible for collection, collation and dissemination of data from the Concern supported facilities to get the data from OPD, RH, OTP,TSFPs and SCs program
             • Facilitate learning, documentation and sharing of experience/learning of Health service planning, management and government within the operation areas.
             • Contribute to the development of programme database and maintain statistical database of programme figures for all the program sites.
             • Prepare weekly and monthly reports highlighting programme achievement, challenges and plans and submit them to the his/her line managers on regular and timely manner.
              • Compile information collected from various programme areas to produce monthly narrative reports.
Other Duties:
              • Engage in emergency response as and when required by the organization
              • Support implementation of other activities of ECHO SAFE project as soon as the manager and team identify the gap.
              • Carry out additional responsibilities as assigned, including administrative and planning functions.
• Any other tasks agreed with the Line Manager.
 

Person specification: Qualification skills and Experience
             • Should have degree in Public health or Nursing with 3 years’ experience.
             • Experience in Health service planning and management in supporting HF and LHA
             • Experience in needs assessments, surveillance, surveys, and information management
             • Experience in training, supervision and management of staff
             • Excellent computer skills especially word, excel, and power point.
             • Ability to communicate and write reports in English is required.
             • Knowledge and experience of humanitarian work is an added advantage

             • Knowledge of policies and guidelines pertaining to the health and nutrition sectors in Sudan is required.
             • Ability to travel to field locations with rough roads and extreme weather conditions.
 

Concern Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies
           Concern Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies
Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies

 

Concern Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies.

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s

Core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies

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