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Action Contre la Faim is an international humanitarian organization established in 1979 with the mission of saving lives by combating hunger through the prevention, detection, and treatment of malnutrition, particularly during and after emergency situations caused by conflict and natural disasters.

Action Contre la Faim provides coordinated responses in nearly 50 countries worldwide, including Yemen, across seven areas of expertise: Nutrition and Health, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Food Security and Livelihoods, Mental Health & Psychosocial Support, Advocacy, Climate, and Research.

ACF has been operational in Yemen since 2012 and currently operates in four bases: Aden, Hodeida, Al Khokha, and Sana’a. The country office implements activities centered on fours main sectors: Nutrition and Health, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), and Food Security and Livelihoods.

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Job Title: Health and Nutrition officer

Location: Luhayyah district, Al Al-Hudaydah

Contract duration: until 31st March 2027 with possibility of extension.
Basic monthly salary (taxable): 1041$ to 1243$ based on experience salary calculation (excluding other benefits offered by the organization)
Line Manager: Deputy Health and Nutrition Manager
Technical/Support Manager: Health and Nutrition Manager

Objective of the Position

Overall responsible for nutrition and health service delivery through the ministry of health facilities including technical capacity building and reporting

Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Health & Nutrition Manager and Health and Nutrition Program Manager , the Health and Nutrition officer will:

Mission 1: Needs assessment, planning and joint capacity assessment of nutrition and health service provision

• Identify out of reach areas with catchment population by villages under each health facilities in collaboration with health workers/community health volunteers

• Conduct mass screening through community health volunteers/workers to identify quick needs based on MUAC, diarrheal and ARI cases whenever needed

• Support Nutrition and Health team to maintain a database of operational villages by health facilities and update regularly.

• Liaise with community health workers/health facilities for needs identification whenever needed.

• Mapping of health facilities, health workers, community health workers/volunteers in the targeted areas

• Facilitate the quarterly assessment of CMAM/health services provision in the health facilities and communities

• Support health and nutrition survey teams whenever required

Mission 2: Systematic capacity building of the health workers on Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition including IMCI through the health facilities

• Support nutrition and health team in identification of training needs and facilitate the trainings on CMAM/PHC/ANC/PNC in close collaboration of District/Governorate Health office.

• Facilitate to organize refreshers training, in close collaboration with DHO and with support from Sr. Health and nutrition Officer and Deputy Program manager on CMAM

• Provide adequate technical support on the use of regular reporting tools and beneficiary registers monthly reporting

• Plan monthly on-job coaching sessions for each health facility workers based on specific gaps identified through CMAM/Health quality assessment checklist.

• Work together with health workers on identified gaps on CMAM, IMCI, ANC/PNC and PHC service provision

• Organize monthly meetings with responsible health workers and provide feedback on improvements, gaps and standardization of the service provision and reporting

Mission 3: Ensure smooth implementation and proper functioning of CMAM/IMCI/ANC/PNC and PHC service provision in health facilities.

**Detection, referral and assessment of acute malnutrition or medical complication **

• Work with health workers to establish crowd control mechanisms in the health facilities

• Ensure that facility based screening, diagnosis, detection of acutely malnourished children/sick children is in place by the trained heath workers/ACF staff

• Ensure that the referred acutely malnourished/sick children from community health workers/volunteers are re-diagnosed and documented as referred by community health workers/volunteers

• Ensure that health workers are following appropriate protocol for diagnosing and classifying childhood illnesses including defining acute malnutrition among children

• Ensure that adequate health checkup is done to identify medical complications according to IMCI/PHC protocol

• Ensure that appropriate referral of children is maintained within the CMAM components (OTP, SFP, SC and IMCI) based on anthropometric and medical assessments

• Facilitate the cases with medical complication cases on referrals to the district health hospital/governorate general hospitals.

• Ensure that health workers are performing overall clinical/ physical examination for each patient based on the national/WHO protocols. Final diagnosis and medication provided are matching and recorded in the registration books, examination paper and BNFs cards.

**Ensure that health workers are administering appropriate protocols for treatment of acute malnutrition (SAM/MAM, management of common childhood illnesses, primary health care and ANC/PNC. Follow up on the immunization activities: **

• Ensure that mothers/caretakers are given adequate information regarding their child health status and importance of the treatment needed

• Closely monitor and ensure that health workers are following admission and discharge criteria in line with the national CMAM protocol (international in case there are no valid national protocol available)

• Closely monitor and ensure that admission and consultation procedures are respected in line with the CMAM/IMCI, ANC/PNC and PHC national guidelines

• Closely monitor that appropriate systematic treatment protocol is respected in the health facility for SAM/MAM and common childhood treatment

• Provision of adequate information to the mother and caretakers on the feeding practices of acutely malnourished children

• Closely monitor that beneficiaries are receiving adequate therapeutic supplies, medicines according to the CMAM/IMCI guideline

• Ensure that appropriate documentation is done – CMAM treatment registers, BNF cards, individual child monitoring cards, IMCI register, cards, ANC/PNC register, PHC OPD registers etc.

• Ensure that medically complicated SAM cases are referred to stabilization centers or next level of the health facility; discharged SAM cases are referred to MAM treatment program

• Ensure that absentees, non-responder cases are referred to community health workers/volunteers for follow up using home visit forms

• Advocate and guide health workers/counsellors to facilitate IYCF counselling sessions during each distribution day in the health facilities for the caretakers, PLWs

• Liaise with responsible Medical doctor from District/Governorate level and ACF medical doctor for technical support required

• Follow up on immunization schedule and activities for children and PLWs as per national protocols.

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Mission 4: Support Health manager for establishment of trained community outreach team and linkage with CMAM, PHC and ANC/PNC program

• Support health manager/district health office to select community health workers/volunteers in the respective catchment areas of the respective health facility in close collaboration with health facility workers and communities.

• Support Health manager in organizing and facilitating training sessions for community health workers/volunteers on detection and referral of common childhood illnesses and acute malnutrition among children, PLWs

• Follow up with community health volunteers on appropriate referrals of acutely malnourished children and PLW; sick children to health facilities

• Follow up with community health volunteer on home visits of non-responders, absentees, death cases, defaulter tracing and ensure proper documentation

• Facilitate the monthly meeting with community health volunteers and provide orientation and guidance in planning, reporting

• Closely monitor and observe the community based detection, referral and awareness activities and provide feedback to community health volunteers through formal and informal sessions.

**Ensure maintenance and hygiene for all equipment and premises. **

• Ensure adequate hygienic conditions of the facilities and provide adequate means (soap, water) for hand washing of SAM beneficiaries, caretakers during appetite test

• Ensure that all equipment is used in an appropriate manner by those present at the centre;

• Verify the availability of clean drinkable water for patients and activities. In case of any problem liaise with WaSH team through line manager.

• Liaise with WaSH team for appropriate removal procedures for sewage, solid waste and medical material

• Liaise with WaSH team and update a check-sheet for each point (quantity, quality, water chlorination).

Mission 5: Information management, reporting and coordination

• Update data collection template for health facility tracking, health workers training tracking and share with appropriate persons.

• Maintain record for refresher trainings, supportive supervision visits and any visit to health facility.

• Follow up CHVs to collect monthly reports and analyse them before sharing with the senior health and nutrition officer.

• Ensure that data collection template for CMAM database is filled and shared with line manager/data entry officer every month.

• Collect monthly report for SAM treatment, MAM treatment, PLW treatment, IMCI, ANC/PNC, PHC and EPi service provision from the health facilities and share it with line manager

• Analyze compiled reports and performances for the targeted health facilities and share summaries with line manager

• Follow up and support log program assistant on the consumption report and closing balance stock at the end of the month.

• Closely coordinate with WaSH team to ensure appropriate WaSH facilities in the targeted CMAM sites

• Regularly report and coordinate with line mangers regarding challenges, issues faced in the field for timely and appropriate decision making.

• Ensure preparation of weekly/monthly consumption drugs reports for each HFs and share with Senior Health and Nutrition officer.

• Conduct monthly physical inventory of health facilities drugs and prepare systematic order needs based on the average consumption of previous months.

• Collect checklists of any distribution such as CDK, Hygiene kits and or Mosquito nets. Fill the databases of each distribution and share with your line supervisor on monthly basis.

Additional Responsibilities

• This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and the employee will also perform other related tasks as required and be responsible for reporting and communicating the progress and achievement of the specific assigned task;

• Maintenance of high technical standards;

• Conduct all duties in a professional manner in accordance with the mission’s Safeguarding Policy, Code of Conduct, Internal Rules and Regulations, mandate and charter of principles including the promotion of gender equality.

• The employee is also required to remain alert and responsive to any child and adult safeguarding risks, acquire relevant knowledge and skills to promote strong safeguarding practices, and conduct duties in a manner consistent with the mission’s Safeguarding Policy.

Required Qualification, Skills and Professional Experience

• Bachelor in Medicine/Nursing/Public health

• Or Diploma in Nursing/Nutrition with more than 3 year of experience implementing nutrition and health program implementation

The following Experience / skills are preferred:Experienced in CMAM/IMAM/health program implementation

• Team management experience with similar programs

• Capacity to facilitate and lead team meetings  Ability to observe and to provide feedback on the activities

• Ability to manage staff according to local culture and organization policies

• Experience in implementing IMCI/Health programs including CMAM.

• Organization skill is necessary.

• Ability to use fluently Word, Excel, Power Point is a plus

• Team management experience with similar programs

• Capacity to facilitate and lead team meetings

• At least 1 year experience in the field of management of nutrition/health project (CMAM, SFP/OTP/SC preferred or IMCI/PHC, care & feeding practices),

• Organisation skill is necessary.

• Ability to observe and to provide feedback on the activities

• Ability to understand and to interpret the nature of human behavior

• Ability to cope with any challenging situation

• Ability to show active and creative in working environment

• Ability to manage staff according to local culture and organization policies

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English is an asset

Safeguarding Commitments

• Action Contre La Faim has a zero tolerance to all forms of violations of Child and Adult Safeguarding and the Code of Conduct by staff. In the process of recruitment, selection and appointment ACF implements a range of procedures and actions to ensure children and vulnerable adults are safeguarded and abuse is prevented.

• The employee is also required to remain alert and responsive to any child and adult safeguarding risks, acquire relevant knowledge and skills to promote strong safeguarding practices, and conduct duties in a manner consistent with the mission’s Safeguarding Policy.

Gender Equality Commitments

• Foster an environment that supports values of women and men, and equal access to information;

• Provide a work environment where women and men must be evaluated and promoted based on their skills and performance;

• Respect beneficiaries’ women, men, children (boys and girls) regardless of gender, sex orientation, disability, religion. race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, or marital status;

• Value and respect all cultures.