Position 1 : CMAM Nurse

Job Description

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality, and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis.  These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world.  Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe.  Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.

I.  JOB SUMMARY:

The purpose of the CMAM Nurse/ Junior Nurse position is to provide overall technical, organizational support and play a support and facilitation role for community based management of acute malnutrition in communities. she/he is assigned, includiing technology and best practices awareness creation and linkages and behavioral change through education, information and communication. She/he supports people’s empowerment, collective action and solidarity, social cohesion and inclusion as well as gender equity. Facilitates and encourages active participation of and networking between individuals and communities in recognizing problems, identifying solutions, and implementing project activities related to the identified solutions. Establishes and maintains close working relationship with communities and community organizations in her/his working area in order to ensure that the nutrition messages are disseminated and understood at all levels. Build capacities of the community and institutions.  S/he works closely with woreda, Kebele, Village-level task force leaders and local government development agents.

II. RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS: 

Job Responsibility #1 Technical Support and facilitate community action planning and targeting

• Support and facilitates emergency nutrition  program participants in the identification and prioritization of project beneficiaries as per the national protocol
• Facilitates community meetings and community action plan (CAP) preparation by working with organized community structures and ensure that the participation of each community groups in problem identification, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of CMAM
• Ensures CARE’s key program principles of accountability, empowerment, non discrimination are followed in community analysis and action plans;
• Facilitates community based nutrition assessment and analysis and targeting along with health extension  workers, health workers and kebele level community structures;
• Supports and strengthen proper implementation of therapeutic feeding program in the primary health care units including district hospitals, health centers and health posts.
• Assesses health, nutrition, hygiene and sanitation related problems and initiate appropriate responses at community and primary health care unit level;
• Reviews the plan with the partners and representatives of the community and including her/his supervisor at kebele level;
• Prepares final action plan by breaking down in to quarters and months and submit it to her/his supervisor and make sure the same is done at health facilities with OTP/SC.

 % of Time:  30%       

Job Responsibility #2:  Facilitate implementation of project activities and monitoring

• Support and facilitate the establishement of new OTP/SC sites and strengthen the existing OTP/SC sites.
• Conduct regular capacity assessment, Monitor the quality of therapeutic feeding program at primary health care unit and provide onsite training for service providers as necessary.
• Supports community mobilization of beneficiaries along with Health extension workers and women development armies;
• Facilities, organizes, and builds skill and knowledge of care takers on appropriate child feeding practices, basic hygiene and sanitation
• Ensures that activity implementation is informed by CARE’s core rights-based approaches and principles, gender equity, and community level advocacy in particular;  
• Organize supplementary food distribution team and ensure that target beneficiaries properly receive supplementary food and necessary documents properly recorded and filed.
• Provides technical and organizational assistance to HEWs, health workers,  kebele, and village representatives and community members including women development army;
• Organize cooking demonstration, awareness creation sessions on health, nutrition, hygiene and sanitation in therapeutic feeding program sites, and supplementary food distribution sites.
• Arranges/facilitates cross visits and conducts capacity building on site trainings for Health Extension Workers (HEWs), nurses, and women development armies;
• Builds capacity of women development armies and committees, undertakes participatory monitoring of project implementation works, and records lessons learned and reports to her/his supervisor.
• Receives lists and commodities for distribution, checks for correctness and arrange in crews/groups to facilitate efficient distribution;
• Distributes allocated food (commodities) to target beneficiaries as per established practices and CARE Ethiopia’s commodity management procedures;
• Submits all the necessary documents (payment sheets/beneficiary lists, authorization distribution memo etc.) to commodity storekeeper after the completion of the distribution;

% of Time: 35%         

Job Responsibility #3:  Strengthen partnership, institutional linkages and working relationship

• Selects CNVs  from the community with relevant government stake holders/partners and arranges training for them along with the CMAM supervisor  ;
• Represents CARE at woreda and  kebele (s) level as a member of the health task force 
• Strongly works to make the plan of the project to be part of the plan for the kebeles
• Closely works with MOH health institutions, CNVs and communities at kebele  and village level to ensure adequate linkages are established.

% of Time: 15%         

Job Responsibility #4: Reporting and Learning

• Support quality recording and documentation of nutrition data in OTP/SC sites
• Prepares weekly, monthly and quarterly reports and submit it to her/his supervisor
• Supports and facilitates community involvement in annual innovation and  knowledge fairs
• Collects basic information, best practices, case studies, and lessons and report to her/his supervisor
• Conduct malnutrition causal mapping and arrange outreach sessions in identified kebeles or villages.
• Use nutrition data for local decisions or actions making with his/her supervisor  
• Undertakes  personal  professional  development initiatives identified with his/her supervisor

% of Time:  15%

Job Responsibility #6: 

• Perform other duties as assigned.

% of Time:  5%

III GENDER EQUALITY

• Be observant of any misbehavior regarding gender, and report it to the responsible person.
• Produce sex disaggregated data at HH, community, project, program and organizational level as   appropriate. Uphold gender and diversity values of CARE whenever dealing with staff, communities and partners.

Job Requirements

V. QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW HOW)

A) EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

• Diploma in Nursing.   

B) EXPERIENCE

Required:

• At least two years emergency nutrition related work experience 
• Experience in community based nutrition intervention preferably in emergency such as CTC and TSFP
• Knowledge and practical experience of the national/international therapeutic /supplemental feeding protocols/guidelines
• Experience in standard nutrition data management and reporting
• Skill in facilitating on job hands on training for health workers, HEWs, and CNVs
• Field experience of community mobilization
• Previous experience in pastoralist communities
• Knowledge of local language-(Tigrigna)

 Desired:      

•  NGO experience

 C) TECHNICAL SKILLS

Required:

• Communication skill, good human relations, willingness to reside in rural areas;
• Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality, sensitivity to HIV/AIDS, conceptual understanding of participatory approach and sustainable development.
• Knowledge of the local language

D) COMPETENCIES:

• Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, stress tolerance, information monitoring, developing teams, interpersonal skills, coaching, problem solving, planning and organizing. 

VI. CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS 

• The CMAM Nurse is expected to establish open relationship with the community, government counterparts and other community based organizations in order to facilitate and encourage active participation in overall development activities and internally, with Supervisors, Project Managers, and other concerned FO’s staff.

VII. LIVING CONDITIONS:

• The CMAM Nurse based in the project woreda and  lives among the community. She/he can travels on foot long distances (50%) and stand about 30% during training sessions. 

How to Apply

If you are interested to be part of our dynamic team, exciting work environment and contribute to CARE Ethiopia’s mission and vision, please send your CV (not more than 3 pages) and cover letter (not more than one page) through .

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Passionate and dedicated candidates who meet the requirement are strongly encouraged to apply, especially women!

CARE seeks to improve the lives of the most marginalized, particularly women and girls. Our diversity is our strength. We encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.

CARE Ethiopia is committed to preventing all unwanted behavior at work. This includes sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to share this commitment by understanding and working within the CARE Safeguarding Policy and related framework. CARE Ethiopia has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives, or partners.

CARE Ethiopia reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer.

By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms that s/he has no objection to CARE Ethiopia requesting the information specified above. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks.

Position 2 : CMAM Supervisor

Job Description

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality, and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis.  These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world.  Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe.  Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.

I.  JOB SUMMARY:

The purpose of the CMAM Supervisor (Senior Nurse) position is to provide overall support, leadership, coordination, coaching, and supervision to CMAM Nurses  under his/her supervision. She/he ensures the analysis/development, and implementation and monitoring/evaluation of developmental relief interventions in areas of his/her responsibility in accordance with government guideline and project plans to effectively/cost-efficiently contribute to the achievement of project results, objectives and goals. She/he ensures project implementation takes into account CARE’s programming principles and commitment to address the underlying causes of chronic poverty and food insecurity. Thus, she/he ensures community participation, empowerment, partnership, gender equity and avoids any form of discrimination in the process of project implementation. S/he facilitates effective and positive learning environment within and across teams, ensures effective, proactive liaison with and support to woreda and kebele Food Security and Nutrition Task Forces are established and maintained. She/he also facilitates adequate linkages between the  project and other food security and health projects in the woredas. 

II. RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

Job Responsibility #1:  Project Analysis and Implementation:

• Coordinate and support the implementation of the emergency nutrition project with the project team leader and other staff;
• Facilitate the establishment and strengthening of therapeutic feeding program in the health system: district hospitals, health center sand heath posts.
• Regularly supervise CMAM nurses and ensure that CMAM nurses are regularly doing capacity assessment and provide the support as necessary;
• Facilitate and support community sensitization, mobilization, and targeting of project beneficiaries and ensure that project resources including supplementary food are properly reached to target beneficiaries;
• Organizes and lead supports to participatory, resource/assets mapping, problem-opportunity identification and needs assessment of communities together with the CMAM nurses and Woreda and kebele level partners implementing the CMAM program;
• Coordinates capacity assessment for woreda, kebele task forces  and general communities
•  Coordinate and support capacity building  trainings for HEWs and women development army leaders in line with the project objectives and government guidelines;
• Facilitates community capacity assessments and provide awareness raising and behavioral change interventions for project beneficiaries and wider community.  
• Supports review of and, feedback to the Woreda consolidated activity plans by community/kebele Task forces;
• Ensures that all project interventions are carried out with full participation of the community members specially women and marginalized groups;
• Ensures that the planned activities are implemented as per the implementation schedule set, required quality and quantity, and in accordance to the programming principles of the organization;

% of Time:  40%

Job Responsibility #2:  Planning, Monitoring and Supervision:

• Ensures that the required support and resources are timely channeled to support project implementation at the facility and community levels in project areas;
• Ensures that the CMAM nurses receive the needed technical and logistic support required, to ensure and evaluate project performance and quality.
• Sets required project performance standard of the activities of the project together with the CMAM nurses , monitoring and evaluation officer, Nutrition officer, and government partners to ensure implementation of the project as per the standard
• Provides guidance and support for mainstreaming into activity implementation of CARE’s core Gender equality and diversity, rights-based approaches and Humanitarian accountability principles, and community level advocacy in particular;
• Coordinates and conducts joint monitoring and supervision, regular review meeting with the project partners at woreda and kebele level, at least on monthly basis, record and share lessons and provide feedback to all concerned.
• Resolve technical problems/issues that CMAM nurses  and other program actors face in the field if it is within his capacity and if not report to Nutrition  officer or project manager  for support;
• Supervises and evaluates CMAM Nurses under his supervision as per the HR policy.

% of Time: 25%

Job Responsibility #3: Capacity building of facilitators and partners:

• Assists Nutrition Officer; in the Preparation of annual, quarter, and monthly operation plans with its equivalent resource.
• Organizes and arrange training to CMAM Nurses, HEWs, CNVs and others partners by discussing with Nutrition officer and manager at the field office.
• Holds regular on job training to facilitators and partners at community level;
• Conducts training needs assessment facilitators and partners at community level;
• provide technical assistance to the CMAM nurses  and government partners/communities;
• Arranges cross visits teams, within the sub office and sites;
• Supports capacity assessment and capacity building activities at woredas and kebele levels

% of Time: 15%

Job Responsibility #4:  Facilitate Learning and Networking:

• Establishes good working relationship with local officials, communities and other stake holders;
• Keeps up to date with the developments in the sector, including best practice examples in-country and ensure ongoing personal development and learning;
• Prepares regular project progress updates at woreda  level and share with the government and submit the next higher levels
• Organizes and supports community involvement in the project after action review and  and handing over to sustain the project.
• Represents CARE at woreda, kebeles level being member of the food security and nutrition task forces.
• Involve in different food security and nutrition assessments in the woredas and kebeles levels as needed.
• Support and conduct best case stories and causal mapping and share with project staffs 

% of Time:  5%

Job Responsibility #5:  Reporting:

• Develops appropriate reporting formats together with Nutrition officer and other appropriate staff of the project;
• Collects monthly and quarterly performance reports from all project’s operational woredas and facilities
• Verify and check the reported activities against the detail implementation plans.
• Reviews and summarizes the monthly and quarterly report for the operation area and submit to the next higher levels.

% of Time: 10%

Job Responsibility #6:  Others:

• Executes other tasks and assignments, given by the project.

% of Time:  5%

III GENDER EQUALITY

• Be observant of any misbehavior regarding gender, and report it to the responsible person.
• Produce sex disaggregated data at HH, community, project, program and organizational level as   appropriate.
• Uphold gender and diversity values of CARE whenever dealing with staff, communities and partners.

Job Requirements

V. QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW HOW)

A)  EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

• Diploma in Nursing

Desired

• B.S.C in Public Health and Nursing

B) EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• Minimum three years practical experience in areas of emergency nutrition
• Experience in management/coordination of community based nutrition intervention preferably in emergency such as CMAM, CTC.
• Knowledge and practical experience of the national therapeutic /supplemental feeding protocols/guidelines.
• Knowledge of international benchmarks such as SPHRE standards and other frameworks
• Skill in facilitating on job  training for health workers
• Field experience of community mobilization
• Previous experience and good knowledge of pastoralist communities.   

Desired:      

• NGO experience

 C) TECHNICAL SKILLS

Required:

• Supervisory skill;
• Computer proficiency;
• Good communication and report writing skill;
• Knowledge of local Language;
• Familiarity/training on management of acute malnutrition (CMAM guidelines /protocols);
• Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality, sensitivity to HIV/AIDS, conceptual understanding of participatory approach and sustainable development.

D)  COMPETENCIES

Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, building partnerships, stress tolerance, building commitment, coaching, interpersonal skill, operational decision-making, planning and organizing, information monitoring. 

VI. CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

• The incumbent is expected to collaborate with the local communities, government counterparts, and other partners and internally, with Nutrition officer, Project Managers and other concerned FO’s staff.

VII.  WORKING CONDITIONS AND LEVEL OF TRAVEL REQUIRED.

• The CMAM supervisor shall be based in project woreda with extensive field travel (50%) to the commuity.

How to Apply

If you are interested to be part of our dynamic team, exciting work environment and contribute to CARE Ethiopia’s mission and vision, please send your CV (not more than 3 pages) and cover letter (not more than one page) through 

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Passionate and dedicated candidates who meet the requirement are strongly encouraged to apply, especially women!

CARE seeks to improve the lives of the most marginalized, particularly women and girls. Our diversity is our strength. We encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.

CARE Ethiopia is committed to preventing all unwanted behavior at work. This includes sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to share this commitment by understanding and working within the CARE Safeguarding Policy and related framework. CARE Ethiopia has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives, or partners.

CARE Ethiopia reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer.

By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms that s/he has no objection to CARE Ethiopia requesting the information specified above. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks.

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