Vacancy title:
Community Nutrition Program Coordinator

Jobs at:
Partners In Health (PIH)/Inshuti Mu Buzima (IMB)

Deadline of this Job:
6th August 2018

Duty Station:
Butaro, Rwanda

JOB DETAILS:
Job Title: Community Nutrition Program Coordinator
Reports to: Director of Nutrition
Location: Butaro with possibility to work cross-site from time-to-time
Description of the role:
Partners In Health (PIH) is a Boston-based non-for-profit organization that for 25 years has focused on the health of the poor. PIH is now active in 10 countries, including Rwanda since 2005, known locally as Inshuti Mu Buzima (IMB). For the past 13 years, IMB has worked with the Rwandan Ministry of Health by building infrastructure, strengthening health systems, and training local staff at hospital, health center, and community level in three rural districts.
Over the past 10 years Rwanda has made dramatic progress in improving under-five child health. IMB has led several innovative Maternal and Child programs, including development of a mentoring program for health center nurses, and partnership with the MOH in national trainings in neonatology, IMCI and malnutrition management and women’s health. However, malnutrition remains unacceptably high, especially stunting, which has not shown a significant decrease for the past decade. The Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (MIGEPROF) has recently established the National Early Childhood Development Program (NECDP) to accelerate the decline in stunting through implementation of integrated Early Childhood Development (ECD) centers throughout Rwanda. In order to accelerate IMB’s nutrition intervention impact and define IMB’s uniqueness in the fight against malnutrition, we aim to recruit a Nutrition Program Coordinator to align IMB’s work with the Government of Rwanda’s stunting reduction strategy.
Community-Based ECD

• Under the supervision of the Director of Nutrition and in collaboration with the IMB Burera District team and authorities of Burera District, coordinate the establishment of ECD centers in key priority sectors of Burera District.
• Meet with local stakeholders from the district, sector, cell and village level to determine strategic geographic areas for establishment of ECD centers and document findings in reports.
• Research other ECD center models, both locally and internationally, as well as conduct site visits with other nutrition team members and informational meetings with partners working in ECD to ensure all programmatic activities are aligned with evidenced-based interventions for ECD and write reports of these visits/meetings.
• Provide joint supervision of ECD centers in Burera with the ECD Program Officer and provide reports to the Director of Nutrition of findings to develop quality improvement plans
• Work with the ECD Program Officer, Nutrition Program Manager, Director of Nutrition and other key stakeholders to develop trainings for ECD center workers.
• Collaborate with other district partners, including District health unit, heads of health centers, nutritionists, CHWs to ensure ECD centers are integrated into other health and social services.
• Monitor program process, output and outcomes of ECD centers through a baseline and on-going monitoring of the ECD center progress through reports, in close collaboration with IMB Monitoring and Evaluation team and Research Department.
• Collaborate with the ECD Program Officer to manage procurement of supplies for ECD centers.
• Conduct home visit with the program officer to assess family conditions of children with recurrent acute malnutrition.
  Community Based Nutrition Program and CHWs
• Identify training needs of CHWs and participate in the development of clinical protocols and training materials, in collaboration with other IMB programs, including Maternal and Child Health, Community Health, the Program on Social and Economic Rights (POSER), and the Department of Mentorship, Education and Training (DMET) in the design and provision of nutrition-sensitive training for CHWs and program beneficiaries.
• Conduct and coordinate trainings along with other IMB and MOH colleagues on relevant topics related to high-priority areas, such as nutrition, maternal health, early childhood development, and food-sensitive agriculture.
• Support and improve the capacity of CHWs through regular supervision visits and trainings in collaboration with district Community Health Coordinators.
• Facilitate and advocate for children and their families to be connected with other community health services as needed (e.g: Deworming, family planning).
  National-Level Functions
• In collaboration with the Director of Nutrition, represent IMB at the national level by participating in relevant technical working groups related to Early Childhood Development.
• Help to raise the profile of IMB’s ECD-related work through attendance at national conferences and meetings, seeking opportunities for presentations and sharing experiences.
  Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required: nutrition, public health, science-related field (i.e. biological sciences), food security, agriculture
• 3 to 5 years of experience (paid or unpaid) in a nutrition, early childhood education or public health-related field
• Passion for nutrition and early childhood development
• Ability to train, build the capacity of local staff, and build relationships with local and national stakeholders
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills
• Ability to manage and prioritize projects with attention to detail
• Ability to work well with culturally diverse team, be flexible and have a strong willingness to learn
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Comfort with Microsoft Suite, and general computer skills
• Fluency in English and Kinyarwanda required
  Job application procedure
  If you believe that you are the right candidate for the above position, please follow the link https://www.pih.org/pages/employment?p=job%2Fowe47fwF  and submit CV and application letter only in MS word or pdf formats.
  Applications should be submitted not later than 6th August 2018