Plan Cameroon is an international Child Centered Community Development Organization with no religious, political or governmental affiliation working in Cameroon since 1996. We promote equal opportunity employment and pay special consideration to female candidates.

Plan is a children's organization with primary concerns on children rights, safety and well being and has in its interest to create safe environments for children with more attention paid to child protection. All employees are therefore expected to comply with our Child protection policy.

Plan Cameroon is in the process of acquiring a grant from the World Food Program(WFP) for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities relating to  the management of Moderate Acute Malnutrition(MAM) in the East, North and Far-North regions. Within this framework we are looking for potential Cameroonian candidates for one year duration renewable contract to fulfill the positions below:

NB: Awarding employment contracts to selected candidates will depend on the final agreement on the grant with the donor.

Title: (09) District Supervisors for the Supplementary Feeding Program(SFP).

Duty Station: Bertoua, Garoua and Maroua with a possibility to be transferred anywhere in Cameroon.

Main responsabilities and Responsibilities

Under the authority of the PU Project Coordinator, the District Supervisors will among other tasks perform the following:

• Optimize the enrolment process of Moderate Acute Malnourish children under 5 and pregnant and lactating women(PLW)
• Ensure that the Community Animators have a well mastery of the anthropometric measurements and equipped to screen malnutrition
• Organize and supervise the screening activities done Community animators
• Ensure that the distribution planning in each health area enables a proper supervision of activities
• Ensure that the selected distribution points fit with the criteria of the national protocol
• Ensure that the benefiting populations are well informed of the distribution planning
• Ensure that there is enough stock in the distribution points
• Prepare the distribution sites to host the patients properly
• Ensure that the second step screening control is properly done as per National protocol
• Ensure that the quality of Foodstuff given to each patient fits with the National protocol
• Ensure the remaining stocks after the distribution operations are well kept
• Record data as per M&E needs
• Oversee the post-distribution processes and prepare the next distribution
• Gather, analyze and share relevant data;
• Contribute to Nutrition assessment operations in implementing zones

Qualification and Experience

• University degree in Social Science
• Minimum of one(1) year work experience in community development
• Experience of working with institutional donors/fundraisers
• Experience of working with children, PLW, and young people
• Experience of working in zones where security issues is a concern.

Skills and Behaviour

• Knowledge and experience in a range of participatory and child/gender sensitive approaches;
• Demonstrate good knowledge of information technology specially computer software applications(MS Word and Excel);
• Demonstrated record of excellence in sponsorship and strong knowledge of project Management in particular and program activities in general;

Application Procedure

All applications should include:

• Cover letter;
• Comprehensive CV;

Interested applicants should submit their applications no later that March 5th, 2014 at 17 o'clock preferably in soft copies and by e-mail to the address: Plan-Cameroon.jobvacancies@plan-international.org with a subject title:" Application for District Supervisors for Supplemantary Feeding Program(SFP)".

Only shortlisted candidatures shall be contacted. The candidate finally selected should comply with the United Nations Convention on Child Rights applied in the Organization.

NB: No application shall be admitted after the closing hour mentioned below.