Nutrition Officer at Albarka Healthspring Foundation

Job Summary

• The Nutrition Officer will be directly responsible for the day-to-day field implementation of nutrition specific activities to prevent wasting
• He/she will be responsible for managing nutrition specific responses to prevent wasting, working with Supervisors and Community Nutrition Mobilizers (CNMs).

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide the overall nutrition technical leadership, technical guidance to master trainers, supervisors, trainers/mentors and CNMs for successful implementation at PHC sites.
• Participates in the Training of Trainers’ execution at the State level.
• Ensures that all children brought to the facility are counselled on nutrition specific interventions to prevent wasting and malnutrition.
• Provides key expertise on nutrition mentoring, training and quality assurance to all trainers/mentors.
• Responsible for meeting all USAID Advancing Nutrition agreement obligations, including documentation and quality report.
• Overall oversight of technical aspects of the program.
• Develops and coordinates training schedules and ensures availability of qualified trainers.
• Responsible for producing technical deliverables and achieving technical project results as specified by the funding agency.
• S/he oversees technical planning and implementation of the approved workplan.
• Provides on the job mentoring and supportive supervision of trainers, supervisors and CNMs.
• Supervises the onsite capacity building of health workers, CNMs and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs).
• Provides technical direction for collation of necessary nutrition data from TBAs and entry into the District Health Information System (DHIS) using the existing Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework.
• Responsible for reports and ensures results for project activities.
• Communicates with USAID Advancing Nutrition.

Qualifications

• Individual in a leadership role in the organization.
• Nutritionist, and/or Child Health expert, with an MPH, MBBS, Medical, Nursing, or other relevant master's Degree.
• Minimum of 5 years of institutional work experience and expertise on nutrition, child health and related activities.
• Must have demonstrable competency in facilitating nutrition screening and counselling, child health mentoring in the clinical setting, and experience leading participatory training sessions.
• Advanced experience in competency-based skill building training for health workers
• Experience managing a USAID funded project/sub-project is highly desirable.
• Experience using M&E software such as Excel, DHIS2, and other open-source platforms.
• Experience in data analysis and report writing.
• Excellent English writing and fluency skills, and preference for local language.