🇸🇱 Job Vacancy @ Concern Worldwide – Health and Nutrition Officer

Concern Worldwide is recruiting District based project officers for the Saving Lives 3 program in Sierra Leone based in Western Area Urban, and Kambia. The project officers will work under the oversight of the Programme Manager-Health & Nutrition in the respective districts. This position is contingent on funding.

Responsibilities:

Project specific; 

Oversee and ensure quality of activities and outcomes for the gender equality, inclusion and nutrition activities under Saving Lives phase 3

Increased access to quality Health services 

• Facilitate trainings and workshops in areas of responsibility ensuring all paperwork are properly filled and procedures followed (such as attendance list, payment receipt etc.);

• Support other project officers in quality health service activities where needed/appropriate;

• Coordinate with local partner where needed on activities.

• Facilitate with CHC colleagues regular cooking demonstrations to improve household dietary diversity.

• Support the roll out of activities relating to nutrition behaviours including rolling-out of training modules on nutrition through community animators; promoting community vegetable gardens; supporting participatory nutrition message creation and dissemination through different channels including media, drama, community structures, e.g. CHW, mother and father’s groups, Influential Women etc;

Programme Cycle Management:  

• Oversee, manage and ensure quality implementation of activities and achievement of Saving Lives Project 3 outcomes coordinating with district counterparts in DHMTs as well as community stakeholders

• Prepare regular narrative reports on project activities and submit to Programme Manager-Health & Nutrition

• Ensure all aspects of project activities under their responsibility adhere to programme quality standards and policies (PM&E, accountability and mainstreaming) in a coherent and integrated manner;

• Ensure that the project activities under their responsibility are accurately reflected in the integrated MEAL system, identifying activities to be monitored and data to be collected;

• highlight areas of the adaptation of District context;

• Contribute to the designing and delivery of training models, learning processes, resources, materials and workshops in your technical area of expertise;

• Participate as active participant in relevant project training of trainers;

• Ensure identification of and documentation of good practices (with PDQ unit);

• Build and maintain effective professional relationships with community leaders, Chiefdom, District stakeholders, project animators and implementing partners to aid successful programming;

• Participate in project planning and review meetings with staff, partners and stakeholders and ensure that key recommendations and learning are incorporated into day to day project implementation;

• Submit weekly work plans aligned with the overall programme implementation plan and monthly reports to Programme Manager-Health & Nutrition;

• Contribute to the development of monthly, quarterly and annual reports;

• Preparation of documentation (ToR, SRs, training curriculum, budget, float request, transport request…) for a programmatic and logistical preparation to implement agreed field activities – trainings, workshops, coaching and monitoring visits;

• Participate and support project inception activities in district

To be added for non-managers:

• All staff are responsible for upholding and promoting Concern’s values, including our workplace equality, diversity and inclusion, and safeguarding values.
• All staff are required to participate and contribute as necessary towards Concern’s emergency response as and when required.

• University degree in relevant area; Nutrition, Health (CHO, Midwife, SECHN), gender, community development, human rights, social studies, or accepted equivalent professional experience;
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience working in project implementation ideally integrated nutrition projects and/or gender empowerment and transformation;
• Minimum 3 year working with NGOs or CSOs;
• Field experience in community based projects working directly with communities, partners and government officials;
• Strengths in community mobilization, fostering multi-stakeholder networks and platforms and knowledge of participatory approaches.

Special Skills, Aptitude or Personality Requirements: 

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including report writing;
• Initiative and ability to work with minimal supervision; ability to work both as part of a team & independently;
• Enthusiastic, energetic and motivated;
• Ability to motivate and inspire others;
• Ability to work as part of a team for shared results and learning;
• Strong analytical skills;
• Excellent supervision skills;
• Good MS Office skills (Word, Excel);
• Experience in working with district sector offices (such as gender WASH, Nutrition, health…), local NGOs and INGOs;
• Strong spoken skills in Temne and Krio;