Deadline: 22 February, 2021
Location: Oyo, Nigeria
Save the Children is seeking to fill the position of Nutrition Officer.
The organisation works to ensure children around the world get health care, food and shelter as well as learning and child protection services.
Responsibilities
- Engage with community health focal points, community volunteers in cluster LGAs to implement quality nutrition interventions/delivery of nutrition services for the programme
- Supervise activities of community health focal points, community volunteers in cluster LGAs
- Work with MEAL team to verify beneficiaries and contribute to various project reports
- Ensure programme approaches and implementation are sensitive to cultural and gender dynamics
- Provide technical assistance to LGA teams and health workers on nutrition, with a particular focus on development of effective methodologies to improve health and nutrition knowledge, attitude and practice
- 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
Requirements
- Degree in Health/Public Health/Nutrition or equivalent
- Four years, minimum, of progressive post National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) experience
- Experience in nutrition and community based programming
- Technical expertise and experience in behaviour change programming
- Proven capacity of management, leadership and teamwork
- Demonstrable ability to write report
- Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathise with all beneficiaries and their carers
- Experience in community-based interventions in western part of Nigeria is a plus
- Fluency in written and spoken English and local languages
- Computer literacy
- Preparedness to live and work in an uncertain security environment
- Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles
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