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Posyandu Plus Consultant – Development of Integrated |
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Sunday, 09 December 2007 |
POST TITLE: Posyandu Plus Consultant – Development of Integrated Training Manual SECTION: Health and Nutrition DUTY STATION: Banda Aceh
ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING
a) REPORTS TO: PO ECCD, Banda Aceh 2. PURPOSE OF THE POST (Statement of overall post accountability. ) UNICEF with the government developed a concept of integrated community services called the posyandu plus concept. A major part of this concept is to get the technical staff working more effectively with community volunteers and in a more integrated manner. The technical staff include midwives, family planning staff, education staff and social workers. All these groups rely heavily on community volunteers and mobilizing the communities.
The sub-district level technical staff also often work in isolation of each other and the posyandu plus concept aims to bring these groups closer together making them work more effectively together so that the women and children are treated in a more holistic approach. This will improve the services that are available for the women and children, save time for parents, improve coverage for health and nutrition interventions.
3. MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Percentage - Major Duties and Responsibilities 5% - 1. Design a rapid assessment to access the current services being provided by the sub-district level team and investigate how to integrate these services. In terms of working with community volunteers, joint planning and data collection.
30% - 2. Carry out the rapid assessment this will include, secondary data collection, field work in selected sub-districts, in-depth interviews with stakeholders and literature reviews. Other suitable available resources should be used. A report will be produced which will include the major information gained and recommendations and action plan on drafting the manual.
40% - 3. A trainers of trainers manual will be compiled to prepare trainers to be able to provide a (approximately) three day training for sub-district level technical staff (health, education, social and family planning). The training should include how services can be integrated, management of community services and data collection. These training should be participatory in nature with the aims to improve integration and improve the skills of the technical staff in providing leadership in the communities. This should be done in close collaboration with the government counterparts. 25% - 4. A manual for the three day training should be developed. This should act as a resource for the district level staff as well as being a manual to help with the training. 5% - 5. Following design of the manuals these should be shared with the key stakeholders in each of the departments at province and selected districts and sub-districts. Agreement should be reached with the province on the use of these manuals. The community level training should be pilot tested and changed according to the acceptability of the programme.
4. WORKING CONDITIONS (Do the duties of this post involve frequent traveling or unusual conditions or is it an office-based post?)
The Consultant will be based on Banda Aceh with travel to selected districts (Aceh Besar and on remote district)
Consultant to be reimbursed for transport cost based on receipts and actual cost up to a max. Rp. 1,000,000 per month. Log book will need to be provided for payment of fuel costs. All receipts will need to be submitted.
Consultant will be expected to provide own computer
5. QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES required performing the duties of the post: • Excellent communication skills; • Ability to work independently and travel frequently to all districts • Ability to communicate with high level district staff.
a) EDUCATION (Indicate the level of formal education and/or training and field of specialization required.) • Bachelor Degree in economics, social science or similar is required
b) WORK EXPERIENCE (Indicate the length and type of practical experience required at the national and international levels.) • 5 years work experience • Experience of working at a high level of district and provincial government level • Experience of designing training modules • Experience in research or assessments • Experience of posyandu and community work
c) LANGUAGES (Indicate the languages requirements. ) • Ability to speak and write effectively in both Indonesian and English language.
d) COMPETENCIES (Indicate what key competencies are required, such as computer knowledge, management, communication, negotiating, or training skills, etc.) • High standard of written English and Bhasa • Computer knowledge, word processing skills, email • Strong communication skills and ability to negotiate with various levels of governments and community leaders • Good interpersonal skills • Able to write reports • Flexible manner
Kindly sent your application letter and resume including related document to allam_amin@yahoo. com and niksasanti@yahoo. com the latest by 19 of December 2007.
Please put Posyandu Plus Consultant – Development of Integrated Training Manual as subject and any attachment please put your name follow by document name.
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