Nutrition and Health Technical Officer at Forward in Action for Education, Poverty and Malnutrition (FAcE-PaM)

Job Description

• FAcE-PaM seeks to engage a Health and Nutrition Officer for its Catalysing Strengthened PoliCy Action for Healthy Diets and ResiliencE (CASCADE)-CARE Project to deliver the objective of healthier diets and increased resilience to price and climate-related shocks for women and children in Jigawa and Kebbi states, Nigeria.
• The incumbent will support the design/review, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, as well as knowledge management of activities relating to nutrition-specific/sensitive interventions with a particular emphasis on maternal and child nutrition, nutrition, and comprehensive nutrition services interventions (CNSI) package.

Responsibilities and Tasks

• The Health and Nutrition Officer will be responsible for the technical and operational implementation of nutrition-specific/sensitive programs, as well as contribute to meeting the nutrition needs of CASCADE-CARE programme participants in Jigawa and Kebbi states.
• Plan, implement and monitor the Nutrition activities.
• The incumbent will support the design/review, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, as well as knowledge management of Nutrition activities.
• Assist in developing and expanding malnutrition prevention activities through the promotion of Maternal Infant Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) and its Social Behavioural Communication (SBCC) Strategy awareness raising in targeted areas.
• Strengthen external stakeholder engagement, including communities and local governments, to strengthen nutrition programming
• Work closely with Primary Health Care Centres and frontline Health Care Workers in facilitating access to Nutrition services
• Support Community Management of acute Malnutrition, leveraging Nutrition and Health improvement platforms
• Conduct/support community and facility-level cooking demonstrations.

Project Monitoring and Reporting:

• Summarise Nutrition data, conduct analysis and prepare reports to support programme reviews and informative decision-making.
• Timely preparation of monthly and quarterly reports.

Capacity Building and Coaching:

• Strengthen the capacity of community structures to on effective and quality nutrition service provision.
• Build team capacity in Nutrition through effective guidance, coaching, training, and accountability.

Coordination and Representation:

• Support quarterly coordination meetings of the Local Government Committee on Nutrition and other Local Government Health actors’ coordination meetings
• Facilitate monthly coordination meeting of Nutrition structures platforms at the community level.
• Build very good team spirit with the CASCADE-CARE programme and supporting staff in the field and the office.
• Support communication and activities with other partners, agencies, NGOs, and government institutions.

Technical support for Nutrition:

• Participate and provide technical support during the review of nutrition guidelines/or manuals, or standard operating procedures, as appropriate.
• Provide technical support in the integration and implementation of social and behaviour change communication works across the project implementation.
• Provide programmatic support and/or organise technical meetings under the guidance of the CARE CASCADE Project Manager.
• Provide technical support in liaising with other sectors like food security and private sector engagement, and support partnership and advocacy efforts to strengthen project implementation.

Requirements
Required

• University Degree /HND in any of the following disciplines: Nutrition and dietetics, Public Health, MBBS or a related field.
• At least 3-4 years of experience in implementing a Nutrition Programme.
• A good experience in facilitation and supervision is required.
• Experience with nutrition assessment and relevant data analysis.
• 3-4 years of progressively responsible experience in the nutrition Sector of NGO and/or directly related areas
• Fluency in English and Hausa

Competencies:

• Integrity and Trust
• Team Player
• Drive for Results
• Problem Solving
• Time Management
• Functional/ Technical Skills
• Conflict Management
• Listening.