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

Location: Potiskum, Yobe
Reporting to: Nutrition and Health Programme Manager
Proposed start date: July 2022

Key Responsibilities

• 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

• 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).