CMAM SUPERVISOR - RAMA at CARE Ethiopia

CARE Ethiopia

Position: CMAM SUPERVISOR - RAMA

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Contract

Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Addis Abeba - Ethiopia

Salary: Salary - 746$

Posted date: 1 month ago

Deadline: Submition date is over

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, implementation, and monitoring/evaluation of developmental relief interventions in areas of his/her responsibility by government guidelines 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, and 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 of therapeutic and supplementary feeding programs with other project staff in the project woredas.
• Facilitate and support community sensitization, mobilization, and targeting of project 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 women development armies, and CNVs in line with the project objectives and government guidelines;
• Facilitates community capacity assessments and provides awareness-raising and behavioral change interventions for project beneficiaries and the 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 especially women and marginalized groups;
• Ensures that the planned activities are implemented as per the implementation schedule set, required quality and quantity, and by 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 standards 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 meetings with the project partners at the woreda and kebele level, at least monthly, records and shares lessons, and provides 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 the 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 Project team leader; in the Preparation of annual, quarter, and monthly operation plans with its equivalent resource.
• Organizes and arranges training for CMAM Nurses, HEWs, Women's development agencies, CNVs, and other partners by discussing with the Nutrition project team leader and manager at the field office.
• Holds regular job training for facilitators and partners at the community level;
• Conducts training needs assessment facilitators and partners at the community level;
• provide technical assistance to the CMAM nurses and government partners/communities;
• Arrange cross-visits to 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 relationships with local officials, communities, and other stakeholders;
• Keeps up to date with the developments in the sector, including best practice examples in-country, and ensures ongoing personal development and learning;
• Prepares regular project progress updates at the woreda level shares with the government and submits the next higher levels
• Organizes and supports community involvement in the project after action review and handing over to sustain the project.
• Represents CARE at woreda, and kebeles level being members of the food security and nutrition task forces.
• Involvement 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 the 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 detailed implementation plans.
• Review and summarize the monthly and quarterly reports for the operation area and submit them 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 PROBLEM SOLVING (Thinking Environment)

Levels one and two of problem-solving apply to the incumbent. The incumbent involves with daily routine activities, she/he also uses interpolative skills to pick and choose the right solution to address given problems.

IV 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 levels as appropriate. Uphold gender and diversity values of CARE whenever dealing with staff, communities, and partners.

Salary - 746$

IIV. QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW-HOW)

A EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

• Degree in Nursing
• 3 years of relevant experience with the first degree.
• 2 years of relevant experience plus a post-graduate degree.

B) EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• Minimum three years of practical experience in areas of emergency nutrition
• Experience in management/coordination of community-based nutrition intervention preferably in emergencies such as CMAM, and CTC.
• Knowledge and practical experience of the national therapeutic /supplemental feeding protocols/guidelines.
• Knowledge of international benchmarks such as SPHERE standards and other frameworks
• Skill in facilitating job training for health workers
• Field experience in 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 skills;
• 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.
• Knowledge Local Language skill is preferred.

D COMPETENCIES

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

V CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

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

VI WORKING CONDITIONS AND LEVEL OF TRAVEL REQUIRED.

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