Nutrition Officer at Pro-Health International

Pro-Health International is a faith-based, non- profit organization that has provided free health care services to under-served populations in Nigeria for over 28 years.

Pro-Health International is inviting suitable candidates for the under-listed position for its newly awarded USAID funded OVC project ICHSSA 4: Integrated Child Health and Social Services to be implemented in Nigeria. The ICHSSA 4 project seeks to improve the wellbeing of OVCs and their caregivers:

Job Title: Nutrition Officer

Location: Adamawa

Primary Function

The Nutrition officer will assist the Nutrition Advisor in the capacity strengthening of CSOs to provide high quality livelihood services for vulnerable households and populations.
S/he will assist in the development of assessment tools, analysis of household vulnerability assessment results and articulation of appropriate relevant interventions to address identified gaps
S/he will be responsible for writing reports of Nutrition Community of Practice meetings and trainings while providing logistical and programmatic support during such activities

Job Responsibilities

The Nutrition officer will ensure timely preparation of high-quality training and meeting reports
Support the Secretariat of the Nutrition Community of Practice and convene meetings and follow up with CSOs, working groups or ad hoc committee to complete assigned tasks as appropriate
Conduct quarterly review of partners’ progress reports, tease out promising practices and identify nutrition accomplishments of research significance in furtherance of ICHSSA 4 learning agenda
S/he will maintain strong partnership with implementing CSOs, government and private sector players and other relevant stakeholders in manner that reflects professionalism, mutual respect in accordance with PHI value based behavior
Perform any other functions that may be assigned by the Technical Advisors from time to time.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in any relevant discipline.
A certificate in agricultural economics, food science, public health or a related discipline will be an added advantage.
Minimum of 3 years working experience in VC programing and working at community level work with some program management responsibilities.
Technical skills and experience in nutrition. Experience in agriculture, food technology will be added advantage
Demonstrated knowledge about nutrition concepts such as IYCF, CMAM, PD Heart etc
Experience working with household poverty and food security assessment tools such as Nigeria Progress out of Poverty Tool, Household Hunger Scale
Demonstrated experience in the use of nutrition assessment tools like MUAC, Body mass index (BMI)
Demonstrated ability to support partners working at a distance to achieve results against program objectives/targets
Ability to work independently and as part of a dynamic team of professionals
Demonstrated experience in Nigeria VC response, VC programming principles and integrated programming approaches.