Job Title: Nutrition Officer
Company: Action Against Hunger
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: BA/BSc/HND MBA/MSc/MA
Location: Borno, Nigeria
Job Field: Medical / Health / Safety NGO/Non-Profit
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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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Position Overview: – The Nutrition and Health Officer will play a key role in implementing the program, focusing on the delivery of nutrition communication interventions.
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Specific Objectives: – To assist in the development and implementation of an appropriate nutrition focused BCC and IYCF methodology – Collaborate with health centers and other nutrition focused stakeholders in order to successfully carry out program activities. – Represent ACF externally in relevant local and state level forums and technical working groups
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Qualifications: – Bachelor's Degree in Health, Nutrition, Nursing or related field. – Higher level Degree preferred.
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Preferred Skills and Experience: – 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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Essential Skills and Experience: – 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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