Tasks and responsibilities:

Overall planning and assessing for start-up of CMAM/IMAM activities in the district:

• Collect district information and details of HWs and FCHVs for planning process.
• Establish strong relation with MoHP/DHO/DPHO, local authorities and partners for their collaboration in implementation of 
• CMAM/IMAM (Community based Management of Acute Malnutrition/Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition) activities.
• Define and develop detailed implementation plan (DIP) for CMAM/IMAM in the district.
• Plan, develop and support to conduct capacity building activities at different levels according to the final implementation plan and in line with national protocols.

Management of CMAM/IMAM activities

• Support to provide training sessions to HWs/FCHVs/other staffs on the management of acute malnutrition whenever/wherever necessary.
• Handling all CMAM/IMAM programmatic matters in the district together with DHO/DPHO.
• Ensure communication, coordination and linkages between the OTP (Outpatient Therapeutic Programme) centres, Inpatient Therapeutic Care and community (FCHVs, HWs) with CMAM/IMAM approach.
• Ensure proper recording, referral and reporting system is maintained using HMIS (Health Management Information System).

Advocacy, coordination, communication, linkage and community/social mobilization of CMAM/IMAM programme activities

• Ensure good coordination with all the team members in the capital and base.
• Coordinate with nutrition and health authorities at the district level as well as other I/NGOs and other stakeholders and arrange meetings as and when necessary.
• Participate/facilitate/communicate/advocate with DNFSSC (District Nutrition and Food Security Steering Committee) about the programme.
• Identify and establish linkages with other programme activities to advocate, coordinate and communicate about CMAM/IMAM programme activities.
• Identify/conduct different community/social mobilization activities engaging both health and non-health actors in the district to aware/link CMAM/IMAM programme activities.
• Meet regularly with technical staffs for updates on good practices, issues, challenges, suggestions/feedbacks, if any.

Management of Human Resources with supportive supervision and monitoring

• Lead/support in recruitment and briefing/training of programme staff to run the nutrition activities in the district.
• Lead/support to recruit temporary staff for surveys.
• Supportive supervision and monitoring of programme activities, technical staffs and survey teams.
• Overall management (including administrative management) of field staff and conduct appraisal in the field.

Logistics and supplies management

• Ensure proper/uninterrupted supplies of programme needs at different levels in the district.
• Support/facilitate to maintain proper recording and reporting of all programme supplies in the LMIS (Logistics Management Information System).

Recording and reporting of programme activities

• Collect copies of HMIS and LMIS reports on CMAM/IMAM programme for monthly reporting.
• Maintain internal database system for recording and reporting.
• Finalize the monthly activities report (statistics and narrative) and forward as per established communication channel.
• Share/update programme progress reports with DHO/DPHO regularly.

Representation

• Represent SABAL programme in nutrition and health meetings/discussions/forums as and when necessary.

Contract type: Fixed Term
Contract duration:1 year
Duty station:Kathmandu
Gross Salary: NRs. 72912 excluding relocation grant and accommodation allowance (depend upon localized/delocalized staff)