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Maiduguri Borno |
Posted 5 years ago |
Action Against Hunger Nigeria is recruiting candidates for Nutrition and Health Officers.
JOB TITLE: Nutrition and Health Officers
JOB LOCATION: Monguno, Borno
Objective 1
- To assist in the development and implementation of an appropriate nutrition-focused BCC and IYCF methodology.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Act as key nutrition technical lead for the project under the technical supervision of Nutrition Coordinator.
- Contribute to developing program strategy in health and nutrition in consultation with the program team and other stakeholders.
- Act as focal point in designing and implementing health and nutrition activities through behavior change communications and individual counselling/case management. Key nutrition focus areas will include but are not limited:
- Dietary diversity.
- IYCF practices.
- WASH practices.
- Exclusive breastfeeding.
- Provide technical support to the design, implementation and monitoring of intensive IYCF programming.
- Assess existing tools and methodology for the BCC and IYCF strategies, capitalizing on learning from WINNN and other nutrition-focused activities.
- In collaboration with LGA teams, plan sensitization activities for targeted communities with focus on traditional leaders and other key stakeholders.
- Build capacity, train and provide ongoing support to field level teams in carrying out BCC and IYCF activities with beneficiaries.
- Conduct regular technical monitoring of health and nutrition activities and document findings to inform improvements in program. Implementation.
- Ensure regular communication and sharing of lessons learned and challenges with the management and partners to inform implementation
Objective 2
- Collaborate with health centers and other nutrition-focused stakeholders in order to successfully carry out program activities.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Ensure timely collection, compilation and analysis of quality data as well as the production of quantitative and qualitative reports regarding all health and nutrition activities in the state.
- Coordinate with health centers to carry out joint community mobilization activities around nutrition.
- Develop nutrition-related materials for staff and government officials and health workers based on identified needs.
- Contribute to development and/or adaptation of training materials for program staff and government officials.
- Assist in developing a strategy to ensure improved birth registration in health centres
- Assist in building the capacity and provide ongoing support to government workers in nutrition interventions
Objective 3
- Represent Action Against Hunger externally in relevant local and state-level forums and technical working groups.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Establish formal relationship with the partners as required.
- Represent Action Against Hunger externally in issues related to nutrition and health (consortia, alliances and clusters) at the local and state level.
- Participate in Abuja-based planning, training and sharing forums as appropriate.
- Assist in other tasks as determined by management team.
Internal & External Relationship
Internal:
- Deputy Program Manager: Operational hierarchical relationship– exchange of information, reporting, collaboration, coordination.
- Field program team: Collaborate with team to ensure exchange of information, collaboration and coordination. In addition, oversee technical oversight, technical support, coaching
External:
- Governmental and non-governmental partners: Exchange of information, coordination, training, supervision, influence on choice of technical options.
- Representatives of international aid organisations: Exchange of information.
- Representatives of donors: Exchange of information, technical discussions, project-related exchanges.
- Field activity reports as determined by manager.
- Donor reports and proposal input.
- Internal and external evaluation reports.
- Learning documents and case studies.
- Ad-hoc reports (assessments reports, newsletters, etc.
Qualification
- Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Nutrition, Nursing or Health-related field. Higher-level Degree preferred.
Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and culturally sensitive.
- Excellent communication, writing and analytical skills.
- Proven ability to translate evaluated results into learning strategies.
- Experience in monitoring and evaluating donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities
- Skills on statistical and other software (MS Excel, SPSS, SPHINX, STATA, EPI Info, ENA for SMART, GIS, etc.)
- Fluency in Hausa and English.
- Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
- Experience in humanitarian PQA or M & E.
- Experience in designing and leading internal and external evaluation.
- Experience designing and leading capacity building and training for national teams.
- Familiarity with nutrition, healthcare and systems.
- Commitment to Action Against Hunger mission, values and policy
Preferred:
- Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.
- Previous experience managing cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers).
- Previous experience with Action Against Hunger.
Minimum Basic Salary
- N236,585 per month.
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Job Features
Job Category | Medical/ Healthcare / Pharmaceutical |
Deadline | 14th January, 2020. |