Objective: The purpose of the CMAM Supervisor (Senior Nurse) position is to provide overall support, leadership, coordination, coaching, and supervision to CMAM Nurses  under his/her supervision. She/he ensures the analysis/development, and implementation and monitoring/evaluation of developmental relief interventions in areas of his/her responsibility in accordance with government guideline and project plans to effectively/cost-efficiently contribute to the achievement of project results, objectives and goals. Responsibilities and Tasks

 

 Project Analysis and Implementation:

• Coordinate and support the implementation of the emergency nutrition project with the project officer and other staffs.
• Facilitate the establishment of therapeutic and supplementary feeding programs with other project staffs in the project woredas.
• Facilitate and support community sensitization, mobilization, and targeting of project beneficiaries.
• Organizes and lead supports to participatory, resource/assets mapping, problem-opportunity identification and needs assessment of communities together with the CMAM nurses and Woreda and kebele level partners implementing the CMAM program;

 

 Planning, Monitoring and Supervision:

• Ensures that the required support and resources are timely channeled to support project implementation at the facility and community levels in project areas;
• Ensures that the CMAM nurses receive the needed technical and logistic support required, to ensure and evaluate project performance and quality.
• Sets required project performance standard of the activities of the project together with the CMAM nurses , monitoring and evaluation officer, Nutrition officer, and government partners to ensure implementation of the project as per the standard

 

Capacity building of facilitators and partners:

• Assists Nutrition Officer; in the Preparation of annual, quarter, and monthly operation plans with its equivalent resource.
• Organizes and arrange training to CMAM Nurses, HEWs, CNVs and others partners by discussing with Nutrition officer and manager at the field office.

 

 Facilitate Learning and Networking:

 

• Establishes good working relationship with local officials, communities and other stake holders;
• Keeps up to date with the developments in the sector, including best practice examples in-country and ensure ongoing personal development and learning;

 

  Reporting:

• Develops appropriate reporting formats together with Nutrition officer and other appropriate staff of the project;
• Collects monthly and quarterly performance reports from all project’s operational woredas and facilities

 

 Qualification (Know How)

 

A)      EDUCATION/TRAINING

 

Diploma in Nursing

 

B) EXPERIENCE:

 

·         Minimum three years practical experience in areas of emergency nutrition

·         Experience in management/coordination of community based nutrition intervention preferably in emergency such as CMAM, CTC.

 

C)      COMPETENCIES

Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, building partnerships, stress tolerance, building commitment, coaching, interpersonal skill, operational decision-making, planning and organizing, information monitoring.