Position Title: Food and Nutrition Security Interns
Location: Nutrition and Health Program Plus -Busia, Tharaka Nithi, Samburu, Kitui and Marsabit
To help achieve this, national and
sub-national levels will be engaged to create a heightened profile for
nutrition and strengthen budgeting, planning and monitoring and evaluation
(M&E).
Location: Nutrition and Health Program Plus -Busia, Tharaka Nithi, Samburu, Kitui and Marsabit
Project Description: Nutrition and Health Program plus Kenya goal is
to increase access and demand for nutrition services and improve food and
nutrition security, as well as commodity management support.
At national level Nutrition and
Health Program plus aims to expand Nutrition Assessment
Counseling and Support (NACS) services beyond HIV, offering technical and
financial support to roll-out NACS to include High Impact Nutrition
Interventions (HINI).
Nutrition and Health Program plus will
provide commodity management support for vulnerable populations following
PEPFAR Food and Nutrition guidance and be expanded at national level to reach
additional clients. A critical element of this work will involve coordination
with and strengthening of existing USAID/Kenya and East Africa efforts.
Job Summary: The Food and Nutrition Interns will work as apprentices. They
will work closely with the Deputy Chief of Party, Agriculture Specialist,
Nutrition Specialist, M&E Specialist, Sub/County Agriculture and Livestock
Officers, Sub/County Nutrition Coordinator, implementing partners, Department
of Education, and other NHPplus staff to provide technical support for
community NACS and agri-nutrition activities designed to contribute towards
reduction in stunting.
These activities shall include
increasing market access and consumption of diverse and quality foods while
embracing improved maternal, infant and young child diets, as well as
increasing resilience of vulnerable households and communities.
Essential Job Functions: Duties
and Responsibilities:
·
Identifying and
promoting/supporting/implementing:
1. investments that target vulnerable groups to increase food
production for consumption, and increase women’s empowerment, including assets,
use of energy and time, and income
2. livelihood opportunities that promote gender equity in
combination with achieving nutrition objectives
3. community driven development approaches to enhance social,
economic, and environmental resilience, through effectively linking vulnerable
clients with food security, livelihood and economic support.
·
Promoting and strengthening linkages
between agriculture and health frontline service providers to work towards
improving food security and nutrition at community and household levels.
·
Establishing linkages and
facilitating collaboration across relevant sectors, departments, public and
private partners and stakeholders:
1. to scale up targeted nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive
services appropriate to local needs and contexts through a gender lens
2. for sharing information, planning, programming and service
provision at both health facility and community levels
·
Promoting: awareness and consumption
of diversified, nutrient dense, fortified and nutritionally adequate foods;
High Impact Nutrition Interventions (HINI) during the 1000-days window of
opportunity and among women and youth; agri-food and nutrition sensitive
technologies; best practices for food preparation & utilization; and energy
& time saving technologies
·
Supporting implementation of the
community approach for Nutrition Assessment Counselling and Support (NACS),
Integrated Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) and Maternal
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN)
·
Coordinating capacity building and
technical support on agri-foods and nutrition issues including nutrition
sensitive technologies, dietary diversification and nutrient dense diets
·
Promoting food safety including
appropriate methods of handling, preservation, processing, storage and
utilization of agri-foods
·
Promoting/supporting water and
sanitation activities
·
Executing any other activities and
strategies based on the approved NHPplus work plan.
Minimum Requirements Standards:
·
University degree in Nutrition, Home
Economics or other relevant disciplines and certified by the KNDI Council.
·
(A master’s degree in above mentioned
disciplines or Bachelors degree with three years research experience, will be
an added advantage)
·
Field experience is essential as this
position will be based in the five focus counties of Busia, Tharaka Nithi,
Samburu, Kitui and Marsabit.
·
(Ability to speak local language will
be an added advantage)
How to Apply
Interested candidates who meet the
requirements are invited to send their CV and cover letter to jobs@lanxafrica.co.ke clearly
indicating the job title on the subject line on or before 25th June 2018.
Position Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Interns
Location: Nutrition and Health Program Plus – Busia, Tharaka Nithi,
Samburu, Kitui and Marsabit
Project Description: Nutrition and Health Program plus Kenya goal is
to increase access and demand for nutrition services and improve food and
nutrition security, as well as commodity management support.
At national level Nutrition and
Health Program plus aims to expand Nutrition Assessment
Counseling and Support (NACS) services beyond HIV, offering technical and
financial support to roll-out NACS to include High Impact Nutrition
Interventions (HINI).
To help achieve this, national and
sub-national levels will be engaged to create a heightened profile for
nutrition and strengthen budgeting, planning and monitoring and evaluation
(M&E). Nutrition and Health Program plus will provide
commodity management support for vulnerable populations following PEPFAR Food
and Nutrition guidance, and be expanded at national level to reach additional
clients.
A critical element of this work will
involve coordination with and strengthening of existing USAID/Kenya and East
Africa efforts.
Job Summary: The monitoring and Evaluation Interns will work as apprentices.
They will work closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist,
Agriculture Specialist, Nutrition Specialist, Sub/County Agriculture and
Livestock Officers, Sub/County Nutrition Coordinator, implementing partners,
Department of Education, and other NHPplus staff to provide technical support
for community NACS and agri-nutrition activities designed to contribute towards
reduction in stunting. The M&E Intern will provide support to Program
M&E activities within the county/sub counties.
He/ She will support and learn all
aspects of monitoring, evaluation and learning including but not limited to
data collection, entry, management and analysis.
Essential Job Functions: Duties and
Responsibilities
·
Assist with data collection and
analysis
·
Enter data into project databases
accurately, and according to a data calendar within deadlines
·
Perform rigorous data cleaning and
field-level error reconciliations (Data Quality checks), jointly with the
program team to ensure that the data sitting in the program data base is of
integrity
·
Perform data quality checks on
regular schedule and under the guidance of M&E Officers and the M&E
Specialist
·
Participate in data reviews at
multiple levels (program, sub county and community)
·
Conduct preliminary data analysis and
presentation of descriptive statistics for sharing with the different audiences
(both communities, facilities)
·
Any other duties.
Minimum Requirements Standards:
·
Diploma holders with 3 year field
experience or University degree in Statistics, Computer Science, M&E,
Public health or any other related course. Experience in data collection and
management. Working knowledge of the statistical analysis soft wares (Epi
info, SPSS, STATA etc.) is desirable
·
Proven experience in the application
of MS suite (word, excel, Access, & PowerPoint)
·
Have good verbal and written
communication skills.
·
Ability to work effectively in
diverse, cross-cultural teams in a complex, multi-site work environment.
·
Possess excellent attention to
detail, highly organized, self-motivated, rigorous, strong sense of
responsibility, ability to work independently and readiness to learn
·
Field experience is essential as this
position will be based in the five focus counties of Busia, Tharaka Nithi,
Samburu, Kitui and Marsabit.
·
(Ability to speak local language will
be an added advantage).
How to Apply
Interested candidates who meet the
requirements are invited to send their CV and cover letter to jobs@lanxafrica.co.ke clearly
indicating the job title on the subject line on or before 25th June 2018.