Job Purpose:

 community Outreach Volunteers, based in Tripoli, Minnieh-Donnieh, and Akkar, report to the Field Officer Responsibilities: - Assistance in the implementation of community-based activities. - Identification,

planning, and mobilization of community groups. - Ensuring that identification and referrals are conducted safely, transparently, confidentially, and efficiently to meet the needs and provide access to necessary

services. - Screening of targeted beneficiaries for potential malnutrition cases.  

Responsibilities:
 

• Coordinate with local authorities and all related stakeholders to explain the project's objectives, services provided.
• Support the Field Officer in preparation for outreach work.
• Conduct door-to-door visits to identify and engage the targeted communities. 
• Screen cases for protection and ensure safe referral.
• Promote health, nutrition, and protection (PSEA, GBV, CP) awareness topics.
• Provide counseling sessions related to optimal Infant and young child feeding practices at the field level.
• Record and keep collected information on daily counseled PLWs and caregivers and produce daily reports using data entry formats in tablets generated for standard reporting
• Follow up with pregnant women, especially those not attending their antenatal care (ANC) visits at the PHCs, particularly those with critical pregnancies.
• Identify malnutrition cases (SAM and MAM) through screening of targeted beneficiaries (Pregnant Lactating Women and Children Under 5 years old).
• Ensure that safe identification and referrals are made with transparency, confidentiality, and efficiency to meet the needs and provide access to needed services.
• Distribute supplements to children under 5 and women of reproductive age and provide the caregivers with the required education.
• Support in response to the emergency in Lebanon.
• Communicate any issues encountered during data collection immediately to the Field Officer.
• Filling the data accurately including all notes collected from the field using Kobo/papers forms.
• Ensure data protection and confidentiality.

Corporate Competencies:

- Demonstrate integrity and respect to Mercy-USA values and mission.

- Display cultural, religious, racial, gender, age and nationality sensitivity and adaptability along with respect to all.

- Promote vision, mission and strategic plan of Mercy-USA in Lebanon.

- An honest team-player with strong interpersonal skills.

Functional Competencies: 

- Accurately completes and organizes multiple tasks by considering priorities and deadlines along with potential interruptions.

- Ability to identify program challenges and plan and communicate alternatives for smooth implementation of programs.

- Builds and establishes proper and organized relationships with management, staff, partners and IPs as required.

Knowledge Management and Learning:

- Ability to familiarize with new areas and people.

- Ability to deal with day-to-day stresses, complaints and field level security concerns that may arise. 

- Ability to use tools provided with little direction. 

- Ability to build new relations with individuals on the field in a comfortable and safe way. 

- Ability to differentiate between personal and business relations on the field.

Self-Management :

- Self-motivated, quick learner with an initiative to perform well and beyond expectations.

- Calm and well-mannered under pressure.

- Quick response to urgent requests for information.

- Takes and responds well to feedback. 

- Open to opposing and various opinions. 

- Energetic and positive about the work being conducted. 

- Focused on results and meeting deadlines

Minimum Hiring Requirements: 
 

- Bachelor’s Degree in Midwifery, Nutrition, and Dietetics, or any other related health bachelor
- At least 2 years’ experience (at least 6 months experience in a similar position).
- At least 1 year working experience at NGO.
- Fluent in Arabic

Child Safeguarding and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Disclaimer:

Mercy-USA is committed to child safeguarding and PSEA at all operational levels to protect its staff, volunteers and beneficiaries from the harm that arises out of sexual exploitation and abuse.  Mercy-USA conducts background checks on all new hires including requesting police reports. When individuals are terminated from Mercy-USA because of claims related to child safeguarding or PSEA, after investigation, they are reported to relevant authorities and added to relevant criminal/abuser registries to ensure they are not hired again by other INGOs, local NGOs or the UN.

Candidate Considerations: 

Mercy-USA prioritizes protecting employee culture and maintaining the quality of our work. The following documents will be requested if you are considered for hire:

Police Check/Report

ID

References List 

It is possible that as a condition for hiring, Mercy-USA will, with your consent, conduct an International Background Check and/or check national and interagency sex offender registries.