CMAM Officer

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

Role Purpose

The CMAM Officer is then responsible for implementation of all CMAM related activities including TSFP, IYCF-E and OTP/SC at local level using participatory and community-based approaches. S/he is also expected to provide technical support and guidance to Wereda experts and other staff working in the area of under-five nutrition. S/he is also responsible for compiling progress reports, documentation, and sharining of best practices and lessens learnt in livelihoods.

Accountabilities

1. Carry out CMAM Program according to Plan’s & national protocols (65%)
   • Proper planning for implementation of health and nutrition programs to address the needs of beneficiaries.
   • Lead the proper management of TSF commodities in store, out of store and at distribution sites.
   • Strengthen early case identification, referral linkages and proper treatment of the identified cases at all sites (TSFP, OTP and SC sites).
   • Ensure proper implementation of nutrition/health education sessions through strengthening outreach programs, food demonstration sessions and IYCF-E promotion.
   • Making continuous follow-up and monitoring the contribution of active programs through regular field visits, data collection and reports.
   • Implement field activities such as community mobilization, nutrition and health education sessions and community screening in collaboration with health extension workers, CMAM assistances and community volunteers.
   • To monitor program activities to ensure that treatment centers achieve acceptable performance indicators (such as cure rate, defaulter, death, non-response rates) and IYCF implementation based on SPHERE standards.
     • Request adequate food and non-food items for each distribution sites.
     • Preparing monthly and quarter TSF program reports on overall nutrition activities.
       1. Effectively implemented capacity building activities for local health facilities (25%)
          • Provide continuous on the job training for the health extension workers and food distribution agents to enhance proper case management and early case findings.
          • Identifying health workers and health extension workers for technical training for management of acute malnutrition and integrating IYCF-E with other project activities.
          • Organize and carry out health and nutrition trainings for partners where possible (e.g. technical workshops, training on SAM guidelines, IYCF and CBN guidelines, etc).
          • To follow up and provide ongoing technical support to the activities of the trained partners
          • To participate in the monitoring and evaluation of these activities, and to propose recommendations for developing future capacity building strategies for Plan’s future action.
            1. Coordinated with Plan- team activities (5%):
               • To collaborate and communicate with other Plan program officers (Finance, livelihoods, logistics, etc) to ensure harmonization of activities according to Plan’s mission strategy.
               • Inform/update the Emergency Project Coordinator on nutrition activities on a regular basis.
                 1. Timely submitting all expected reports (5%):