Health and Nutrition Community Officer- intern

Job Description:

• To assist with the technical capacity building of the Khosos Primary Health Center
• To train, support and follow –up Al-Rahma activities in the community and health center
• To Support head of project with all activities, surveys conducted, reporting and data management.
• To organize and start up the activities at the community centers with the support of the local partner.
• To train youth volunteers on infant and young child feeding, nutrition and health.
• To mentor and on-job support to youth volunteers.
• To follow –up community and health centre activities.
• To conducting weekly and monthly reports.
• Performs tasks inherent to the position responding to mission requirements

Objective 1: Project Management: implementation of the Health and Nutrition activities of the project

Activities:

• Assist head of project on training ( set up the training, and support for preparation of materials)
• Assist head of project on the implementation methodologies, baseline survey and monitoring.
• Quality control of methodological tools used in project implementation by the partners. - Including those for beneficiary selection, baseline surveys, focus group discussions, selection and registration of beneficiaries.
• Contribute to elaborating activity progress reports and donor reports.
• Conduct and organize focus group discussions and other M&E activities when required.
• Identify, refer to and follow-up the beneficiaries (mothers, children and pregnant women) in the community. Actively participate in implementation of breastfeeding practices and child care practices provided to beneficiaries

Objective 2: Human Resources: recruitment and training of the staff needed

Activities:

• Contribute to selection and training of youth volunteers.
• Contribute to training of youth volunteers and provide regular support them in their activities.

Objective 3: Administrative and logistics management

Activities:

• Assist head of project on administrative and logistic aspects of the project activities.

Objective 4: Reporting and coordination

Activities

• Participate to creation/revision of project tools
• Realize a weekly and monthly report
• Participate to external reports if needed
• Ensure coordination with partners on the field on request of the supervisors

The intern will learn:

• Humanitarian context, methods and rules
• Project management
• Health and Nutrition related to Mothers and Childs
• How to carry out a survey
• Capacity building

Application Deadline: 30 March 2018

Internship Start date: ASAP

Duration: 4 months (until 31/07/180)