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Job Description
Position: Nutrition Maternal and new born Health advisor
Educational Background and Experience
- Master degree in Applied human nutrition, public health (nutrition), Public Health (RH), General public health Reproductive Health specialty
- Knowledge and experience on Nutrition Program and/or MNCH program(s)
- Practical work experience on planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Nutrition, Reproductive, maternal, newborn and Child health programs;
- A minimum of four years work experience on the area of Nutrition, RMNCH and
- Excellent management, communication, negotiation, leadership, advocacy and analytical skills Versatile and able to commit what it takes to achieve the regional and national targets.
Condition and Duration of Employment: The contract will be for a year initially hired with a 6 month trial period with a possibility of extension based on performance.
Required Number of professional: 1/One/
Duty Station – Hawassa (SNNPR)
The Federal Ministry of Health leads and cascades implementation of priority health programs and overall health system strengthening activities to address the prevailing public health challenges and improve the overall health challenges and improve the overall health of its nation. On top of massively expanding access to primary health services the health sector has made notable strides in improving the health and nutrition of mothers and children through a multi-pronged strategy emphasizing improvements of health infrastructure, human resources, supplies and commodities, information service delivery systems.
Although Ethiopia has successfully achieved its MDG target for reduction in child mortality, neonatal mortality rate stands at 37/1000 live births, the maternal mortality ration (MMR) declined slowly from 937 per 100,000 live births in 2000 down to 676 in 2011 showing an average decline of 4% annually. In order to meet the MDG target of reducing maternal mortality ratio by three forth to 267, Ethiopia has to reduce its MMR by an average of 8% per annum.
According to some global projections made, MMR in Ethiopia has declined remarkably at a rate much faster than the sub-Saharan average and there a much greater optimism that substantial decreases in the MMR are possible over a fairly short time. In the last decade, Ethiopia has reduced child under-nutrition, particularly stunting significantly (by. 31%) However stunting prevalence remain high (44.1 %) with an absolute burden of 5.4 million children under 5. Government commitment to address under nutrition remains high and a strong health extension platform which is key for reaching out to communities with nutrition services. While significant progress has been made in the past 10 years. Our major challenges affect under-nutrition in Ethiopian today:
- Low implementation capacity in terms of financial and human resources to translate the National Nutrition Program in to action at community level;
- Nutrition must be addressed multi-sect orally and cannot be viewed as a problem owned by the health sector, but involving agriculture, education and other key line ministries; Malnutrition is a multi-causal issue which needs multisectoral approach to solve.
- Dietary diversity and nutrition security affecting stunting in children age 6-23 months and pregnant and lactating women, hence the need for appropriate promotion of complementary feeding and household dietary diversity will be a key issue for intervention
- To achieve the stretched objective aggressive resource mobilization and proper utilization is important
Successfully implemented, these projects, are expected to generated substantial health gains in the target woredas and will provide a framework to inform the national scale-up plans for such an integrated and unified approach and serve as a model for accelerating progress in Ethiopia to achieve the health and nutrition-related targets set.
Cognizant of the need for institutional capacity building at federal and regional as well as lower levels of the health system, the Federal Ministry of Health and CIFF would like to recruit and place a qualified Regional Managers with the four Regional Health Bureaus (namely Oromiya, Amhara, SNNPR and Tigray) to closely monitor and discharge the duties and responsibilities outlined here. Each regional manager will be placed in a region and cover respective Woredas in the regions.
Main duties and responsibilities
The Regional managers will support the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNH) and nutrition endeavor of the regions with a specific focus but not limited to the implementation of both SURE nutrition project to 150 woredas and MNH to 100 woredas as an integrated continuum of service. They will also report the progress regularly to FMOH and regional health bureaus. In doing so the incumbent is expected to play the following major technical and managerial roles and responsibilities:
- Provide managerial support to regions on the overall maternal, child health and nutrition programmes management and ensure the delivery of results abased on the target sets.
- Ensure the delivery of maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition services in an integrated manner in the continuum of care both vertically and horizontally.
- Provide technical support on program planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluations in the four regions.
- Provide technical support on program planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluations in the four regions.
- Provide and coordinate integrated supportive supervision of both SURE and MNH supported woredas..
- Liaise between the FMOH, RHBs and other stakeholders to help coordinate regional and woreda based activities.
- Analyze progress in terms of achieving results, using existing programmatic and financial monitoring and evaluation tools; identify constrains to and solutions for effective programme delivery and resource deficiencies.
- Support the capacity building activities in the 150 SURE and 100 MNH supported woredas.
- Provide, coordinate and monitor in-service trainings at regional, zonal and woreda levels to scale up maternal and new-born Health and nutrition programme implementation;
- Support and coordinate regional, zonal and woreda level implementation of project supported CBNC, ICCM, IMNCI activities.
- Support and coordinate regional, zonal and woreda level implementation of project supported M Health.
- Assist to organize and participate actively in review meeting and desk reviews and undertake monitoring missions fo assess progress of implementation, including appropriate substantive and administrative follow-up actions.
- Ensure functional flow of information through effective use of all communication media: written, verbal and electronic within the FMOH,RHBs and partner agencies.
- Ensuring regular flow of programme and financial report from woreda, kebeles, zones, to FMOH and regions in order to enable on time reporting and monitoring.
- Compile regional level reports from senior midwives, kebeles, woredas, and zones submit to FMOH timely.
- Support the establishment of multi-sectoral nutrition coordination, implementation, monitoring and linkage at all levels in the project wordas and ensure all kebeles have functional technical committee.
- Other assignments that might be given by the respective regional health bureau and/or FMOH in line with the MNCH and Nutrition initiatives.
The Regional manager (s) will report to the respective RHB Heads and the Maternal and Child Health Directorate, FMOH.
Closing date: March 28, 2016
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How to Apply
Interested applicants are invited to submit their non returnable applicants, CVs and copies of all documents together with their original document within (10) working days from the first announcement to:
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH
HUMAN RESOURNCE DEVELOPMENT AND ADMI. DIRECTORATE
P.O.BOX: 1234 TEL. 0115515425
ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia
Please do not apply online if other application instructions are stated.Please do not accept payment requests at any of the recruitment phases!
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