Midwives (4 Vacancies)

Responsibilities

• Lead the plan for developing community health and nutrition activities in assigned areas according to the project intervention framework
• Lead the implementation of health and nutrition activities assigned with project outlines’ activities
• Ensure that Health Outreach Consultants (HOC) have the needed information on beneficiaries, referral system and provided services
• Participate and monitor community health clubs’ sessions and provide feedback to volunteers to improve their performance
• Provide awareness session on nutrition topics for pregnant women, lactating women and/or children
• Identify and follow up with women and children on nutrition problems
• Identify pregnant and lactating women and deliver counselling sessions for them
• Screen and identify malnourished infant and children to be referred as per referral mechanism
• Provide one-to-one and group sessions related to IYCF for pregnant and/or lactating women
• Deliver sessions on breastfeeding, complementary feeding and IYCF practices
• Conduct and engage in nutrition and health education to ensure the promotion of positive health seeking behavior including maternal and child health
• Conduct and follow up referrals request on by the caregivers on nutrition, health, WASH, mental health, food security, protection, etc.
• Responsible for planning and scheduling all the needed activities
• Coordinate with midwifes colleagues for planned activities, practices and lessons learned
• Train and supervise HOC in the field to lead malnutrition screening
• Develop different awareness tools such as lessons plan and educational booklets
• Train HOC on different reproductive, maternal and child health topics
• Report immediately and difficulty and/or delay in the implementation of activities to the PM
• Create weekly schedule of activities to be conducted according to project
• Responsible for a group of HOC
• Responsible for delivering all the needed information for HOC regarding work, background and area culture  

Logistics, Data Collection & Reporting

• Identify the needs of materials and tools needed to conduct training activities, health and nutrition campaigns
• Collect and report information on beneficiaries reached through outreached activities
• Identify the number of reached beneficiaries, through volunteer’s progress towards assigned targets
• Document and report training sessions and feedback from participants and beneficiaries
• Submit weekly report to the PM, including awareness database
• Submit monthly report to the PM including all the inputs on all activities

Qualifications

Requirement

• Educational degree in Midwife
• Proven experience for 2 years working in NGOs and community health

Knowledge & Skills

• Excellent experience in conducting trainings and monitoring teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Literacy in reporting and experience in conducting surveys

Computer Skills

• Excellent knowledge in MS office

Others

• Valid driving license
• Familiar with north region