Job Description

Action Contre la Faim is an International Humanitarian Organization established in 1979 with the mission to save lives by combating hunger through prevention, detection and treatment of malnutrition, in particular during and after emergency situations caused by conflict and natural disasters. Action Contre la Faim provides coordinated responses in nearly 50 countries including Yemen globally within 7 field of expertise which includes Nutrition and Health, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Food Security, Mental Health Care Practices, Gender and Protection, Advocacy, Risk and Disaster Management and Research.
ACF has been operational in Yemen since 2012 and is operational in 4 bases (Aden, Hodeida, Al khokha and Sanaa). The mission implements its activities which are centred on 3 sectors, Nutrition and Health, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Mental Health and Psychosocial Support and Protection (MHPSS-P).

For more information please visit our website. https://www.actioncontrelafaim.org/en/missions/yemen/

Job Title:  Health and Nutrition Team Leader (Medical Doctor)
Location:  Alkhokha
Contract duration: Till 31st May 2025 with possibility for renewal 
Basic monthly salary (taxable): 1041$ to 1243$ based on experience salary calculation (excluding other benefits offered by the organization)
Direct Line Manager: Health & Nutrition Deputy Program Manager
Functional: Health and Nutrition Deputy Program Manager

Position Summary

Overall responsible for nutrition and health service delivery through the ministry of health facilities including technical capacity building, monitoring, reporting and community mobilization.

Objective 1: Needs assessment, planning and joint capacity assessment of nutrition and health service provision including Reproductive Health.
Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Identify out of reach areas within catchment population by villages under each health facilities in collaboration with health workers and CHVs 
• Support Nutrition and Health team to maintain a database of operational villages by health facilities and update village population & identify remote areas for mobile sites regularly by Working  with community volunteers/leaders 
• Liaise with community health workers/health facilities for needs identification whenever needed.
• Mapping of health facilities, health workers and 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

Objective 2: Systematic capacity building of the health workers on Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition and Health components in the health facilities

• Support nutrition and health team in the identification of training needs and facilitate the trainings on CMAM/PHC/ANC/PNC in close collaboration with District/Governorate Health office.
• Facilitate to organize refreshers training, in close collaboration with DHO and with support from Sr. Health and nutrition Officer.
• 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, PHC service provision 
• Organize monthly meetings with responsible health workers and provide feedback on improvements, gaps and standardization of the service provision and reporting.

Objective 3: Ensure smooth implementation and proper functioning of CMAM/IMCI/ EPI/ service provision in health facilities & Community level 

• 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/MSP 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 health office.
• Facilitate the complicated delivery cases or pregnant woman with dangerous sign to the next level of the facility in area.
• Ensure that health workers are administering appropriate protocols for treatment of acute malnutrition (SAM/MAM, management of common childhood illnesses, primary health care. 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
• Follow up on immunization schedule and activities for children and PLWs as per national protocols.

Objective 4: Support Health manager for establishment of trained community outreach team and linkage with CMAM, PHC 

• Support health manager/district health office to ensure proper identification of the 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
• Participate in elaborating training   modules   and   suitable   teaching materials on detection and referral of acutely malnourished children; sick children and PLWs
• Support and follow up CHV in organizing their activities.
• Ensure regular active screening sessions in relation with Health and nutrition unit schedule and support CHVs in conducting them.
• Ensure regular awareness sessions are conducted and support CHVs in providing them to communities.
• 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 and establish proper referral and reporting mechanism for CVs
• Closely monitor and observe the community based detection, Screening ,referral and awareness activities and provide feedback to community health volunteers through formal and informal sessions and provide the required technical support
• Reinforce the link between community volunteers, health/nutrition units by organizing frequent review strategy/update of activities meeting. 
• establish proper referral and reporting mechanism for CVs
• 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 center;
• 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).

Objective 5: Oversee the activities in Anti Natal Care during the period of pre-natal, delivery and post-natal care

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Responsibility for the health of pregnant women (anti natal care), including supervision of midwives regarding the provision of vaccinations (TT) and  administration of all preventive medications to pregnant women
• Providing adequate technical support to Ministry of Public Health midwives in in delivering babies and providing post-natal care for the mother and child
• Supervising the provision of education sessions to mothers, their partners, and family members on reproductive health, preparation for parenthood, and antenatal care.
• Providing appropriate technical support to midwives in the Ministry of Public Health regarding assisting pregnant mothers in developing appropriate birth plans.
• Consolidate Reports; review and validation of reproductive health (ANC,PNC) and vaccination 
• Support nutrition and health team in identification of training needs and facilitate the trainings on ANC/PNC in close collaboration of District/Governorate Health office
• Work together with health workers on identified gaps on ANC/PNC service provision 
• Ensure that health workers are administering appropriate protocols for primary health care and ANC/PNC. 

Objective 6: Information management, reporting and coordination

• Update data collection template for health facility tracking, health workers & CHVs training tracking and share with appropriate persons.
• Maintain record for refresher trainings, supportive supervision visits and any visit to health facility or community level  
• Ensure that monthly reports of community health volunteers are collected and reviewed and shared with the with the senior health and nutrition officer on time 
• On time.
• 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.

Objective 7: Proactively support ACFs commitments to gender equality, child protection and disability sensitivity

• Understand the basics tenants of ACFs Gender Minimum Standards & Child Protection Policies 
• Implement all work related activities with a gender, disability and child protection lens, taking into account the different needs, concerns and needs to staff and beneficiaries 
• Help build an inclusive office environment where people do not feel disadvantaged or judged according to their gender or limited due to manageable disability 

Safeguarding Commitments

Action Contre La Faim has a zero tolerance to all forms of violations of Child and Adult Safeguarding, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse 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.

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. 

Qualifications Needed / Required Skills:-

Diploma / Level of studies : 

• Bachelor's degree in Medicine and Health Sciences (Medical Doctor) with at least 3 years of experience in health and nutrition programs and community-based activities within a humanitarian context.

Required skills:

• At least 3 years’ experience implementing nutrition and health projects (CMAM /OTP/SC, IMCI, PHC/ EPI/ IYCF,PNC/ ANC).
• Extensive experience in capacity building and training on nutrition and health programs is preferable  
• Extensive knowledge and skills in community mobilization implementation
• Good monitoring and supervision skills are essential
• Organization skills are necessary. 
• flexibility, taking on responsibilities as needed 
• Ability to understand and to interpret the nature of human behavior
• Ability to work under pressure and react according to evolving context/situation
• Ability to show activeness and creativity in working environment
• Knowledge of computer systems Word, Excel, Power Point 
• Ability to read, write and understand English

How to Apply

Application Process

Suitable candidates are required to submit their applications through the link below

Health and Nutrition Team Leader (Medical Doctor)

and send their CV and Cover letter to recruitment-ho@ye-actioncontrelafaim.org , The closing date for application is Sunday, 29  December 2024.

ACF offers equal employment opportunities, to qualified female and/or persons with a disability.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted