TSFP Officer

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With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children's life stories! Employee Contract Type: Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term) Job Description: Job Purpose: TSFP Officer support Health center systematic nutrition screening, active case detection, early referral and admission of acute malnutrition cases through Targeted Supplementary Feeding programs (TSFP). He/she will facilities referrals in the treatment of acute malnutrition among nutrition priority groups, mainly Children U5 and PLW in accordance with the national protocol and SPHERE standard. As TSFP Officer, responsible for care and medical follow-up of the patients in charge in nutrition program. Moreover, s/he will be responsible for follow up and guide the nutrition activities are implemented based on the national protocol and UNHCR guidance. The TSFP officer will coordinate with the Community TSFP facilitator and COAs based in the camp and partners smoothly strengthen the referral linkages, beneficiary home visit and absentee tracing. The role will be to provide nutritional care, medical follow up including nutritional counselling to all beneficiaries admitted on CMAM together TSFP facilitators and incentive workers. Major Responsibility Support existing health centres in planning and conducting nutrition screening activities, ensuring existence of functional referral pathways and linkages between communities and HF and vice versa Promoting the availability of services to which beneficiaries can be referred, training of staff in nutrition screening and referral services Implement and provide technical support for TSFP (food distribution), Site preparation (IDPs), and mobilization of community, and nutritional screening for refugee Coordinate with COA to ensure active case-finding and follow-up of "defaulters" within the camp blocks. Direct the patients to the facility corresponding to their medical state (OTP or SC) if needed; Identify those patients who need to be transferred to higher structure and those who do not respond to the treatment; Conduct clinical examination and check that the criteria are met and that the immunization is satisfactory for children for discharge Ensuring that HFs and FDPs are equipped with minimum supplies needed for nutrition screening activities, (e.g., MUAC tapes, registration and reporting Responsible for material and supplies on the field format, referral forms, guidelines etc.) and promoting and supporting community mobilization and sensitization activities towards nutrition screening program. Ensure linkage of OTP discharges, MAM children, and acutely Malnourished Ensure the TSFP is seamlessly linked with the Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) for referrals of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) cases. Manage the products flow within the team with proper documentation and handling in collaboration with logistics- Reconcile daily food consumption and document properly. Check non-medical items, supplementary supplies are in place; - Check the coherence of the state of the stocks with the orders; Inform line manager for low stock items and participate to elaborate the request; Fulfil daily tally sheets of commodity consumption and participate in the weekly consumption report. Conduct regular supportive supervision and provide technical support on Targeted Supplementary Feeding Program sites every week - Ensure accurate recording of beneficiary data in registers and ration cards. - Conduct regular Follow-up about protocols and guidelines on recording and reporting - National, RRS, UNHCR, WVE Internal & other Donors. - Prepare weekly and monthly statistical reports (e.g., CMAM database, WFP reports) tracking performance indicators: Cure Rate, Defaulter Rate, and Death Rate. Support nutrition assessments such as SMART surveys or SENS (Standardised Expanded Nutrition Survey) common in refugee settings. - Ensure that data collected are complete, reliable, relevant, timely and valid. Ensure that weekly/ monthly data compilation and reporting of activities for internal consumptions are submitted to the coordinator. Evaluate the relevance and appropriateness of the intervention in view of the evolution of the context and needs (contradictory results, nutritional value, cultural habits, etc.) Timely reporting and deliverables are reported Ensure the integration of TSFP with CMAM programming through strengthening of psychosocial & emotional sites & IYCF promotion & counselling with assigned team members Supervise and mentor TSFP Facilitator and COA recruited from the refugee and host communities. Manage the day-to-day operations of TSFP sites within the refugee camp. - Ensure good communication with the team, partners and re

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