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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