#Vacancy: Nutrition and Health Officer Job at Action Against Hunger (ACF-International)

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Job Title: Nutrition and Health Officer

Company: Action Against Hunger (ACF-International)

Job Type: Full Time

Qualification: BA/BSc/HND MBA/MSc/MA

Location: Jigawa, Nigeria

Job Field: Medical / Health / Safety

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Action Against Hunger | ACF-International works to save lives by combating hunger and diseases that threaten the lives of vulnerable communities, through nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, health and advocacy. 

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The Nutrition and Health Officer will play a key role in implementing the Child Development Grant Programme (CDGP) funded by the UK Department for International Development, a joint project being implemented by Save the Children UK (SC) and Action Against Hunger (ACF). The Nutrition and Health Officer's role will focus on the delivery of nutrition communication interventions.

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Summary of Key Objectives:

• To assist in the development and implementation of an appropriate nutrition focused BCC and IYCF methodology

• Collaborate with health centres and other nutrition focused stakeholders in order to successfully carry out CDGP activities.

• Represent ACF externally in relevant local and state level forums and technical working groups.

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Qualifications & Essential Skills:

• Bachelor degree in health, nutrition, nursing or related field.  Higher level degree preferred.

• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and culturally sensitive

• Excellent communication, writing and analytical skills

• Proven ability to translate evaluated results into learning strategies.

• Experience in monitoring and evaluating  donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities

• Skills on statistical and other software (MS Excel, SPSS, SPHINX, STATA, EPI Info, ENA for SMART, GIS, etc.)

• Fluency in Hausa and English

• Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word)

• Experience in humanitarian PQA or M & E.

• Experience in designing and leading internal and external evaluation.

• Experience designing and leading capacity building and training for national teams.

• Familiarity with nutrition, healthcare and systems.

• Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy.

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Preferred:

• Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.

• Previous experience managing cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers)

• Previous experience with ACF.

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