Nutrition Assistant (for WFP-BSFP Project) at Salient Humanitarian Organization (SHO)

Location: Jere / Maiduguri, Borno North East Nigeria (100% field)
Starting date: 1st January, 2021
Duration of contract: 12 Months (Extendable)
Reporting to: Project Manager

Job Description

• Assist in conducting monthly BSFP distribution activity to target population
• Assist in conducting proper community nutrition sensitization and screening exercise
• Supervise an effective mother to mother support group
• Supervise nutrition specific value adding activities (SBCC, Home gardening, food hygiene promotion etc
• Supervise regular follow up and management of malnutrition cases at the OTP/SC
• Provide nutrition training to community nutrition mobilizers
• Assist in preparation of monthly nutrition progress report
• Daily reporting of nutrition activity

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A University degree in Medicine, Nursing, Dietetics, Nutrition or relevant fields.
• Minimum of two years' experience working with vulnerable communities, basic needs and distribution programming experience, and/or feeding programs.
• Experience in protection interventions in line with vulnerables or IDP operation.
• Experience of working with Non-Governmental organizations.
• Ability to communicate in Hausa and other local languages is a must.
• Willingness and ability to work full time time in the field directly with communities (camp setting and communities in Jere areas).

Knowledge and Skills:

• Understanding of nutritional surveillance and information systems
• Proven ability and experience in planning and conducting formal training session on nutrition including.
• Ability to deal with relations with local authorities as a nutrition representative of SHO in the working area
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach local staff and community workers
• Ability to manage a fair workload including emergencies.
• Interests: Working in humanitarian relief, interest for social issues

Transversals Skills:

• Strong motivation to help people in need
• Ability to adapt or change priorities according to the changing situation within a mission or the organization itself
• Understanding and capacity of integration into the local environment
• Ability to analyze and suggest improvements of the activities
• Well organized and hard worker
• Able to manage stress and pressure
• Understanding of the context of the area
• Reliability
• Neutrality
• Able to check validity of information, logical thinking.

Brief Conditions

• SHO reserve the right to close the application before deadline, if the required number of candidates is attained.
• Candidates will be responsible for his/her own travel, accommodation and feeding during the recruitment process;