Deadline: 03 August, 2022

Location: Oyo, Nigeria

Save the Children International (SCI) fhas opened applications for the role 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

• With support from the nutrition specialist, ensure target beneficiaries (pregnant women, mothers/caregivers of children less than 24 months, children six–59 months) access and utilise available nutrition services
• 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 in beneficiary verification and contribute to various project reports
• Ensure programme approaches and implementation are sensitive to cultural and gender dynamics
• Support technical assistance LGA teams and health workers on nutrition, with a particular focus on development of effective methodologies to improve health and nutrition knowledge, attitudes 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
• Facilitate on nutrition trainings in project locations for CHFPs and CVs
• Develop training plans for health workers, CHFPs and CVs 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
• Work closely with the MEAL team to ensure that data are captured in a correct and accurate manner
• Represent SCI in relevant LGA forums for nutrition in coordination with other partners
• Contribute to communications and media work as required through correction of data and information and sharing with the project team
• Comply with SCI 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 equivalent 
• Four years, minimum, of post-NYSC experience 
• Demonstrable ability at report writing
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathise with all beneficiaries and their carers
• Familiarity with the cluster LGAs 
• Experience in community-based interventions in western part of Nigeria is an advantage
• Fluency in written and spoken English and local languages
• Computer knowledge 
• Flexibility 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 the SCI aims, values and principles

To apply and for more information, click here.

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