Nutrition and Health Officer at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

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.