Nigeria: Nutrition and Health Officer (Nigerians only)
Country: Nigeria
Closing date: 02 Aug 2013
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. From 2013-2017, CDGP will provide 60,000 pregnant women and mothers with children under two with unconditional cash transfers and nutrition behaviour change communication training to contribute to the eradication of extreme hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Northern Nigeria.
Objective 1: To assist in the development and implementation of an appropriate nutrition focused BCC and IYCF methodology
Key activities and responsibilities to achieve this objective:
• Act as key nutrition technical lead for CDGP project under the technical supervision of Nutrition Coordinator.
• Contribute to developing programme strategy in health and nutrition in consultation with the programme team and other stakeholders.
• Act as focal point in designing and implementing health and nutrition activities through behaviour change communications and individual counselling/case management. Key nutrition focus areas will include but are not limited:
o Dietary diversity
o IYCF practices
o WASH practices
o Exclusive breastfeeding
• Provide technical support to the design, implementation and monitoring of intensive IYCF programming.
• Assess existing tools and methodology for the BCC and IYCF strategies, capitalizing on learnings from WINNN and other nutrition focused activities
• In collaboration with LGA teams, plan sensitisation activities for targeted communities with focus on traditional leaders and other key stakeholders
• Build capacity, train and provide ongoing support to field level teams in carrying out BCC and IYCF activities with beneficiaries
• Conduct regular technical monitoring of health and nutrition activities and document findings to inform improvements in programme implementation.
• Ensure regular communication and sharing of lessons learned and challenges with the management and partners to inform implementation.
Objective 2: Collaborate with health centres and other nutrition focused stakeholders in order to successfully carry out CDGP activities.
• Ensure timely collection, compilation and analysis of quality data as well as production of quantitative and qualitative reports regarding all health and nutrition activities in the state
• Coordinate with health centres to carry out joint community mobilisation activities around nutrition.
• Develop nutrition related materials for staff and government officials and health workers based on identified needs.
• Contribute to development and / or adaptation of training materials for programme staff and government officials and
• Assist in developing a strategy to ensure improved birth registration in health centres.
• Assist in building the capacity and provide ongoing support to government workers in nutrition interventions.
Objective 3: Represent ACF externally in relevant local and state level forums and technical working groups
Key activities and responsibilities to achieve this objective:
• Establish formal relationship with the Save the Children technical counterpart
• Represent ACF externally in issues related to nutrition and health (consortia, alliances and clusters) at the local and state level.
• Participate in Abuja-based planning, training and sharing forums as appropriate.
• Assist in other tasks as determined by management team.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL:
•Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and culturally sensitive
•Excellent communication, writing and analytical skills
•Experience in monitoring and evaluating donor (i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA) funded activities
•Fluency in Hausa and English
•Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word)
•Experience in humanitarian nutrition or health work
•Experience designing and leading capacity building and training for national teams.
•Familiarity with nutrition, healthcare and systems.
•Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy
PREFERRED
•Previous experience with nutrition, 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
How to apply:
Applications, including CV and Letter of Motivation, should be sent by email to:recruitment.ng@acf-international.org
