Community Development Assistant- Health and Nutrition

Project implementation and reporting

• Participate in planning and budgeting, preparation of work plans, implementation of planned health activities and monitoring/ reporting of progress.
• Facilitate and monitor the implementation of planned activities and community level engagements
• Mobilize and facilitate the engagements of stakeholders during planning and development meetings, workshops and other fora
• Identify local level partners, support and facilitate the partners in the implementation of planned activities
• Facilitate stakeholders and partners in supervision and monitoring of programmatic activities
• Communicate and work with local health facilities and Community Health Workers to improve health and nutrition issues identified in the communities at least once a quarter
• Support the collection and documentation of impact and success stories.

Community engagement and advocacy

• Innovatively support communities including Registered Children’s (RC) households to participate and benefit from the health program development
• Mobilize and sensitize community (RC guardians, community leaders and other community members) on health programs and issues and facilitate participation in the management of various community health and nutrition projects
• Together with the community sponsorship and development Assistant, train the children committees in the respective parishes in advocating for their wellbeing.
• Support and facilitate the children committees to plan for and hold meetings at all levels (School, parish and sub county) on a regular basis and document findings
• Build the capacity of children, families and community to collectively engage local leaders on identified issues.
• Follow-up on commitments by leaders on improvement of the wellbeing of children.
• Mobilize communities to participate in annual children care and protection days – such as the Day of African child.

Monitoring and evaluation

• Monitoring the health status of RCs in accordance to the minimum programming standard (once every 90 days).
• Support development and implement integrated monitoring plan in assigned area with ADP stakeholders
• Analyze and follow up management of RCs with health challenges
• Compile monitoring reports for management action
• Hold monthly / quarterly meetings with Child Monitors and guardians/parents and child protection committees to address findings from monitoring.
• Work with CSDF to identify, train monitors and partners on health related matters.
• Provide information on support and benefit of RCs to the CSDF to enable entry in RC database

Child Protection and Wellbeing

• Monitor the wellbeing and child abuse cases and report any incidents in line with child protection policy and guidelines.
• Work with local leaders to protect children from child violations and abuses
• Sensitize children including RCs, guardians/parents and other stakeholders about children’s rights and responsibilities.