Community Nutrition and ECD Educator

Summary

Community Nutrition and ECD Educator plays a key role in promoting optimal nutrition practices and early childhood development (ECD) at the community level. He/she will provide awareness sessions on nutrition and ECD in general with a focus on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) at the community level.

1. Organize and provide daily awareness sessions on Nutrition and ECD with a focus on IYCF to beneficiaries at the community level.
2. Apply behavior change communication techniques to encourage adoption of recommended nutrition and ECD practices.
3. Address barriers, misconceptions, and harmful practices through dialogue, and follow-up visits.
4. Engage family decision-makers and community influencers (fathers, grandmothers, leaders) in awareness activities, to create an enabling environment for sustainable behavior change.
5. Link the communities to the national IYCF hotline to receive needed IYCF support.
6. Refer cases to specialized care when needed through IOCC’s social workers
7. Distribute micronutrients supplements to children and PLWs at the community level
8. Conduct community screening for acute malnutrition and ECD and follow up on referrals of identified cases to specialized care as needed
9. Link the community to the nearest PHCC and inform them of the services provided by the PHCs
10. Supervise and support the ECD facilitators ensuring smooth management of ECD corners and implementation of activities.
11. Maintain accurate records of sessions, attendance, referrals, and follow-up cases, and submit daily and weekly reports to the project supervisor
12. Attend training sessions on relevant topics as necessary
13. Attend IOCC-related staff meeting when required
14. Perform other duties as necessary.

   Qualifications     

• Training in IYCF and ECD is an advantage
• Fluency in reading/writing/speaking Arabic and English is necessary
• Good public speaking and communication skills
• Strong social, interpersonal and intercultural skills
• Team player
• Able to meet deadlines
• Computer literacy: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
• Experience required: Less than one year

Contacts/Key Relationships

Project Area Coordinator, Project Manager, Project Supervisor, ECD facilitators, Monitoring and Evaluation department, Community IYCF &ECD counselor, lead mothers, social workers, malnutrition monitors

Working Conditions

Will entail substantial travel and visits to locations where beneficiaries are living (at the community level)

It is preferable that candidate resides in the area of interest and that candidates can commute with his/her own car.