World Vision (WV) has been awarded a multi-million EUR grant from the European Union (EU) to lead a consortium of partners to implement their Accelerating Health Agriculture and Nutrition (AHAN) project under pillar three of the EU’s Partnership for Improved Nutrition in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). Consortium partners include World Vision Australia (lead) with 4 implementing partners: World Vision Laos, Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontière (AVSF), Green Community Development Association (GCDA) and the Burnet Institute.
The AHAN project has the overall objective of creating supportive conditions for enhanced household (HH) nutrition through the following specific objectives:
- Improved access to and availability of sufficient and/or diverse foods year round;
- Improved dietary and care practices among Women of Reproductive Age and children under 5;
- Reduced incidence of selected Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (coordination) related diseases/illnesses linked to under nutrition;
- Improved gender equitable relations at the HH level, particularly in decision-making and distribution of workload; and
- Strengthened multi-sector coordination and support for nutrition. The project will be implemented across three provinces and 12 districts of Lao PDR which is list below:
The District Coordinator will work closely with the Project Officer to facilitate and maintain strong government and community relationships in their assigned district. They will facilitate participation, ownership and empowerment of community processes, and represent World Vision as an organization that walks alongside children, families and communities in a journey of transformational development.
Key activities the District Coordinator will be responsible for include
- Support Community Change Workshops/meetings for Gender and Nutrition, in partnership with LWU
- Coordinate with Government Health staff to support quarterly Village Health Outreach services
- Facilitation of CLTS and WASH campaigns at village level
- Coordinate transport support to HH to improve access to materials for latrines
- Coordination of training and support for Village Water and Sanitation Management Committees
- Support WASH Advisor in assessment and provision of small scale water infrastructure
- Establish and support Village Savings Groups
- Train HH on gender and nutrition-sensitive financial literacy and management
- Identify and distribute women’s labour saving technologies
- Support Agricultural Activities implemented by AVSF
- Undertake Participatory land use mapping in target villages
- Monitoring of activities and collection of data
- Support other project activities and needs as required/requested
- At 3-5 years’ experience in working with the rural community on Nutrition, Health, Gender or WASH activities
- Demonstrated experience working in collaboration with District Government on coordination activities
- 3-5 years’ experience on community mobilization, with demonstrable skills resulting in community behavior change
- Strong training and facilitation skills, with experience training community volunteers on WASH, Nutrition, or Gender
- Strong field work and project monitoring experience demonstrating ability to ensure quality deliverables of the project
- Fluent in local ethnic language and Lao (dependent on target District)
- Must understand and agree with WV’s vision, mission and Core Values
- Must be willing to work and stay overnight at the target village areas
- Must be willing to work within a team
- Must be willing to learn new things
- Experience in data collection and report writing
- Must know how to drive and have a license to drive motorcycle
- Expected to travel 80% of the time in the target village area