Closing date: 04 Sep 2015
Project
title:The
Next Generation Programme – Integrated Promotion of Nutrition, Growth &
Development
Expected
outputs:
- Successful
integrated treatment of SAM & prevention of stunting from facility to
community - Increased
KAP on healthy pregnancy and feeding practices through evidence-based
social and behavior change communication during the ANC period - Generate
evidence and create enabling sub-national environment for delivery of
innovative nutrition services
Specific
tasks:
The program manager is responsible for:
- Implementation
of the activities foreseen by the project at regional level - Coordination
of project team and partners - Maintaining
and develop relation with local health authorities - Ensuring
timely project reports - Actively
collaborate to data collection, operational research, surveys and evidence
generation activities
Main
activities areas:
- Integrating
services for chronic and severe acute malnutrition from community to
Health Units - Strengthening
capacity of Community Health Workers to deliver nutrition services to
prevent stunting across the lifecycle - Improving
availability collection, quality and analysis of monitoring data at
district, facility and community level - Increase
awareness on birth preparedness, behaviour change promotion, awareness
raising on appropriate feeding practices by addressing identified barriers
through KAP survey on healthy nutrition and care behaviours - Improving
budgeting, planning and monitoring at regional and district level - Generating
evidence on integrated delivery at scale, and on an adapted SAM treatment
protocol to informing policy and scale-up planning - Piloting
low-tech beneficiary-level feedback tool to collect information on service
availability and quality
Start date:middle of September
Cotract:
12 months (renewable)
Required
qualifications and experience
- Degree
in Health Sciences (ex. Medicine, Biology) and possibly qualification (ex
diploma or postgraduate) in Nutrition - A
minimum of 3 years’ experience as Program Manager of developing project
possibly on nutrition programs and particularly on chronic malnutrition - Proven
experience in designing and implementing a behaviour change communication (BCC)
package, possibly in nutrition - Proven
experience in programming and implementing training - Experience
in conducting surveys, barrier analysis and KAP studies - Languages:
excellent English written and spoken; Kiswahili will be an advantage - Good
facilitation skills - Excellent
interpersonal and communication skills - Willing,
able and interested to work as part of a team
Submit an updated CV
and cover letter to: risorseumane@cuamm.org
specifying in the object CUAMM/TANZ/R
Only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Selection interviews will take place at Cuamm HQ in Italy (Padua) or at Country
offices in Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania
and Uganda; the NGO does not cover travel expenses for selection.
NGO website: www.mediciconlafrica.org/en
