Nutrition Officer at Save The Children

Role

• Nutrition Officer promotes, protect and support optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding practices; supports in the referral of malnutrition cases; provides capacity building and trainings to community nutrition mobilizers, health workers and Community Nutrition Mobilizers on IYCF-E and referral mechanism; and ensures that identified SAM and MAM cases are identified and referred appropriately.

Qualifications and Experience
Essential:

• Health / Public Health / Nutrition / BSc or equivalent with minimum of 2 years progressive experience post NYSC
• Experience in Nutrition and community based programming
• Experience of emergency nutrition work (preferably CMAM) and implementation of feeding programs, including monitoring and evaluation
• Basic training in IYCF-E
• Proven capacity of management, leadership and teamwork
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathise with all beneficiaries and their carers
• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions
• Experience in community based interventions in Nigeria especially in the NE
• Demonstrable ability at report writing
• Prepared to live and work in an uncertain security environment
• Ability and willingness to frequently travel and stay at the field
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles
• Fluency in written and spoken English and local languages
• Computer literate

Desirable:

• Master trainer and good facilitator
• Experience in conducting nutrition assessments and an understanding of nutritional surveillance and information systems.