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Position: Nutrition Officer
1 Position
Reports to: Nutrition Coordinator
Duty Station: Dadaab
Department: Kenya Programs
The nutrition Program seeks to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with malnutrition in the identified groups through provision of food and health services.
We are therefore seeking qualified candidates to fill the following positions base in Garissa County Dadaab District, North Eastern Kenya.
The post is a field position in a feeding program. Integrated Management of Acute Malanutrition (IMAM) based in Garissa County Dadaab district. The nutrition officer will be reporting to the Nutrition program manager
Responsibilities
- Ensure
that nutrition care is provided to the beneficiaries at the SFCs through
the mobile clinics.
- Plan
and oversee medical and anthropometric screening of malnourished children
and pregnant and lactating mothers
- Assist
in organizing training to improve the skills of the national staff in
screening, supplementary feeding, as well as nutrition education.
- Organize
and supervise dry supplementary food program and outpatient therapeutic
program visits
- Supervise
and perform close monitoring of the staff working in the nutrition program
(i.e Nutrition assistants, educators and Community Nutrition Volunteers).
- Work
closely with the stabilization centers in attending to and monitoring the
admitted children using the standard IMAM protocol
- Oversee
the collection, handling, analysis and reporting of data related to
screening, patients follow-up, and commodities (food and medical)
- Monitor
the nutrition status surveillance of all children less than 5 years old;
pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in SFCs; and participate in the
nutrition surveillance, active screening, rapid nutrition assessments,
Nutrition Surveys and produce final nutrition reports.
- Assist
in developing formal and informal training materials to build the capacity
of the host population in health and nutrition.
- Perform
any other duty as shall be directed by the program manager
Person Specifications Education
- Degree
in nutrition, nursing or equivalent
- Must
be a registered nutritionist with Kenya nutritionist and dieticians
institute
Experience
- 2
years work experience in emergency nutrition work and implementation of
feeding programmes
- Experience
in nutrition assessments and understanding of nutritional surveillance and
information systems with strong computer skills and knowledge of SMART,
Epi Info and SPSS data analysis packages
- Excellent
communication skills
- ability
to deal with donor agencies, government officials, and other NGOs;
- Ability
to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently
- Extremely
flexible with the ability to cope with stressful situations
- Creative
with an ability to work with limited resources
Languages
- Fluency
in both written and spoken English and Kiswahili
Skills and knowledge
- Excellent
facilitation skills.
- Excellent
project management skills.
- Excellent
administrative skills.
- Proficient
computer skills.
Character qualities
- High
level of motivation and proven ability to work independently both in the
field and in the office.
- Diplomatic
and culturally sensitive.
- Team
player.
- A
strong Christian.
Application deadline: Friday, September 28th 2011
Only short listed applicants will be contacted.
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