Deputy Head of Department-Nutrition and Health at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Location: Borno, Maiduguri
Direct Line Manager: Head of Department-Nutrition and Health

Details

• Action Against Hunger is looking for a Deputy Head of Nutrition and Health Department to contribute to the successful implementation of nutrition and health program activities in Yobe state.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead on the definition and the implementation of the country-specific advocacy and communications strategy in close collaboration with other Coordinators and HQ advisors ensuring alignment with ACF’s global and regional Advocacy strategy and objectives;
• Conduct health and nutritional situation analysis in the Yobe state;
• Ensure effective integration and coherence of AAH’s health and nutritional activities – Primary health care, nutrition surveillance, feeding programs, health system strengthen – in accordance with the AAH country strategy and the national and state Ministry of Health strategy;
• Support Health and Nutrition Head of Department to ensure the cohesion of the health and Nutrition teams within themselves and with the other sector programs;
• Support Health and Nutrition Head of Department to ensure programs are harmonized, standardized and in line with the most up to date AAH protocols and tools;
• Create an archive AAH and Sector Nutrition and Health protocols and tools and ensure this is available and disseminated to field teams;
• Technical support to Sector and Nutrition Project Managers;
• Train AAH nutrition and health teams on technical issues (methodology, protocols,) as needs arise;
• Ensure good quality of the trainings provided by the nutrition and health teams to partners and that these trainings match with AAH and national nutrition and health protocols;
• Ensure compliance of programmes in achieving project objectives according to current grants;
• Actively engage surveys, operational researches and guideline development at national and states level;
• Support field teams implement measures to ensure rational use of medical supplies in all AAH intervention sites to guarantee a high standard of care;
• Provide technical guidance to the pharmacy team with regards to handlings of medical commodity in coordination with Health and Nutrition Head of Department;
• Represent Action Against Hunger and its interests to donors, partners and counterparts;
• Actively participate in the Nutrition Sector Coordination meetings and health Sector Coordination meetings in coordination with the Health and Nutrition Head of Department;
• Participate in monitoring the successful implementation of nutrition and health activities;
• Contribute to the overall mission and program strategy, narrative and financial project proposals and reporting, in collaboration with Health and Nutrition Head of Department /support department and other program coordinators as necessary;
• Contribute to the technical review of monthly/quarterly/annual AAH nutrition and health reports to guarantee standard and high quality of information;
• Contribute to the technical review of nutrition and health project intermediary and final reports to guarantee standard and high quality of information.

Position Requirements

• Degree in Medicine, Public health and Nursing;
• At least 5 years of experience in managing nutrition and health programs in underdeveloped/ crisis contexts;
• Humanitarian field experience, preferably with supervisory role;
• Excellent skills in report writing and analysis;
• Sound understanding of national guidelines/protocols;
• Experience communicating in different cultural work environments & with a wide diversity of cultures.
• Previous AAH experience a plus;
• Experience of working with the national ministry of health preferably;
• Work experience in international NGO context, with a sound knowledge of treatment and management of malnutrition and reproductive health issues;

Minimum Basic Salary

• NGN 575,072 per month