Deadline: 20 September, 2020
Location: Katsina, Nigeria
Save the Children is seeking to fill the role of Nutrition Officer.
Save the Children’s mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Responsibilities
- Support the implementation and monitoring of nutrition activities in the integrated health and nutrition project in the state including a special focus on behavour change communications for improved nutrition practices among adolescents/adolescent mothers and ensuring target beneficiaries of the project receive nutrition services
- Support the establishment of child safeguarding systems, promote a culture of keeping children safe, and ensure that potential harm to children is identified and addressed on an ongoing basis
- Report and respond to interventions as determined by position related responsibilities identified in the Child Safeguarding Policy
- Support assessment, preparation and planning for implementation, working in partnership with state and LGA authorities
- Lead on the implementation of the nutrition interventions for the programme, ensuring technical resources required have been factored into work-plans and budgets
- Contribute to developing/modifying programme design in nutrition based on experience and lessons from implementation and in consultation with the programme team and other stakeholders
- Ensure programme approaches and implementation are sensitive to cultural and gender dynamics
- Provide technical assistance to state and LGA teams on health and nutrition, with a particular focus on development of effective methodologies to improve health and nutrition knowledge, attitude and practices
- Conduct follow up monitoring of nutrition-related activities and document findings to feed into improved programming
- Support strengthening of information flow between state and LGA
- Contribute to the development and/or adaptation of training materials
- Lead on nutrition training needs assessment for HWs, CVs and programme staff
- Develop training plans for staff, government officials, health workers based on identified needs
- Ensure timely collection, compilation and analysis of quality data as well as production of quantitative and qualitative reports regarding nutrition activities in the programme
- Provide technical review of programme reports in line with the monitoring and evaluation framework
- Ensure regular communication and sharing of lesson learnt and challenges with the management and partners to inform implementation
- Work closely with the MEAL team to ensure that data are captured in a correct and accurate manner
- Contribute to communications and media work as required through correction of data and information and sharing with the project heads
- Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures
Requirements
- Qualification in Health/Public, Health/Nutrition or a related field
- Four years, minimum, of progressive experience post NYSC
- Experience in nutrition and community-based programming
- Proven capacity of management, leadership and teamwork
- Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathise with all beneficiaries and their carers
- Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions
- Experience in community-based interventions in northern Nigeria
- Demonstrable ability at report writing
- Fluency in written and spoken English and local languages (Hausa/Kanuri)
- Knowledge of computer
- Prepared to live and work in an uncertain security environment
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles
To apply and for more information, click here.
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