JOB TITLE: Nutrition and Health Officer
JOB LOCATION: Potiskum, Yobe
Reporting to: Nutrition and Health Programme Manager
Proposed start date: July 2022
JOB DETAILS:
- Participate with M&E team in supervision of data collection for Nutrition and Health assessments;
- Liaise with Nutrition and Health Assistants for accessing community support group database, health facility database on a regular basis and updating overall health facility based activities;
- Conduct ongoing capacity assessment of health workers on CMAM services delivery, IMCI service delivery, reproductive health service delivery, vaccination etc. and review the training needs and/or coaching needs;
- Ensure that specific monitoring finding is reported to the Nutrition and Health Programme Manager with potential solutions;
- Track Supervisee’s daily attendance, validate monthly attendance for supervisee, and submit it on a timely basis to HR;
- Communicate with HR for necessary staff meeting, performance review, appraisals, and leaves of supervisee;
- Collect consumption reports from health facilities, compile for LGA and share with line manager with needs for upcoming month;
- Regularly report and coordinate with line manager regarding challenges, issues faced in the field for timely and appropriate decision-making.
Position Requirements
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- Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, Midwifery, Public Health or other relevant qualifications with experience in Public Health and CMAM programming;
- Minimum of three (3) years experience in Primary Health Care Program;
- An excellent report-writing skill is required including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
- Fluent in written and spoken English and Hausa;
- Good Communication and Interpersonal skills;
- Team management experience with similar programs;
- Ability to observe and to provide feedback on the activities;
- Ability to manage staff according to local culture and organization policies
Starting Basic Salary
NGN281,063 per month (excluding other benefits).
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Note
- Our employees enjoy a work culture that promotes diversity and inclusion
- Action Against Hunger provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
- This is an emergency recruitment and we are looking to fill this role as soon as possible.
- Candidates available to start immediately are highly preferred.
- Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.
Deadline: July 5, 2022
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Job Category | Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) |