Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Officer at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Location: Damasak, Borno

Job Summary

• The position is based in Damasak, Borno state and work under the supervision of the Sector Manager - Nutrition. The IYCF Officer is required to directly implement nutrition activities at the community.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Conduct capacity assessment of health facilities: baseline, progress and end line and to come up with reports of the same.
• Identify issues/problems and solutions as a result of the capacity assessment and progress assessment and in collaboration with the PM adequately implement solutions in order to resolve problems.
• Conduct rapid/detailed assessment of Infant and Young Child feeding practices in mothers/care givers at mobile clinics.
• Provide personalized IYCF counselling sessions to pregnant women for the preparation of breastfeeding and colostrum feeding and all mothers with children under 24 months.
• Ensure proper maintenance of IYCF integration with all CMAM components.
• Conduct Simple Rapid Assessment (SRA) of all mothers with children under 24 months that attend the OTP/SFP programme through the local Mobile clinics.
• Identify training needs of Health workers and Community Volunteers attached to facilities as well as conducting theoretical trainings if necessary followed by On Job Training (OJT).
• Conduct detailed assessment of child feeding practices in women that require additional support or reveal difficulties.
• Aid in establishing mother to mother support groups (Community Health Groups – CHGs) within the community to provide additional support for mothers and extend knowledge of good IYCF practices.
• Play an active role on advocacy to promote proper IYCF practices, antenatal and post-natal checkups, importance of institutional deliveries, vaccination and growth monitoring.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Health, Nutrition, Nursing or related field. Higher level degree preferred
• Have a minimum of 2 years working experience in humanitarian contexts, with at least 1 year in conflict/insecure contexts including CMAM, IYCF and community mobilization.
• Have the ability and willingness to frequently travel to villages and stay at the field
• Have the willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult working conditions.
• Have the capacity to supervise and coach health workers.
• Have excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies.
• Be proficient in statistics and other softwares (Microsoft Office package, SPSS, SPHINX, STATA, EPI Info, ENA for SMART, GIS, etc.)
• Be proficient with local languages (Kanuri, Fulani, Hausa).
• Have previous NGO experience managing mobilization in different interventions (i.e. cash transfers, WASH, Nutrition).