Overview
The role of Nutrition Officer is to support, implement, and monitor nutrition programmes, conduct assessments, manage data, and ensure quality service delivery. To train health workers, promote optimal feeding practices, and collaborate with communities and stakeholders to prevent and treat malnutrition among vulnerable populations.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Nutrition in ensuring quality screening of all children under five years (6-59 months) and referral systems are in place for all children in the target location and conduct follow-up visits on children referred.
- Promote, protect and support optimal Maternal Infant and Young Child Feeding practices.
- Support Maternal Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergency (IYCF-E), identification of lead mothers, training of health workers and community volunteers.
- Daily supervision of support group meetings in communities.
- Promote quality implementation of Tom Brown program for children under 5 five years.
- Work closely with staff at the health facility and OTP sites to ensure that all children referred with malnutrition are treated in accordance with protocols.
- Work closely with Field Assistants to identify MAM cases and support Tom-Brown approach.
- Facilitate the formation of Mother to Mother and Father to father support groups meetings and conduct supportive supervision/spot checks during support group meetings.
- Provide counselling to caregivers of children with Moderate Acute Malnutrition.
- Support in the referral of malnourished cases from support groups to health facilities offering Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) services.
- Collate and compile program monthly data reports.
- Prepare transport requests for field trips to the program implementing communities.
- Participate in the training of lead mothers and support group members on Food Demonstration
- Working closely with other Nutrition officer, ensure timely implementation of nutrition activities.
- Provide capacity building and trainings to community nutrition mobilizers, health workers and Community Nutrition Mobilizers on IYCF-E and referral mechanism.
- Ensure monthly and quarterly follow up with Community Mobilizers and community leaders through review/feedback meetings.
- Working closely with the project Food security and livelihood (FSL) team to promote a more robust integration of FSL-Nutrition linkages in an attempt to solving the underlying causes of malnutrition
- Ensure that identified SAM and MAM cases are registered in the FSL e-voucher food distribution.
- Work closely with the MEAL team to ensure that data are captured in a correct and accurate manner
- Assist the nutrition team in giving supportive supervision to community volunteers.
- Compile and submit reports on weekly progress report
- Identify learning and training opportunities for partner staff and communicate this to the Nutrition Coordinator.
- Ensure all OTP/SFP team members are familiar with their protocols and guidelines.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 2 years of progressive experience post NYSC.
- Experience in nutrition-Specific and Sensitive interventions.
- Experience in community-based interventions in Nigeria, especially in the NE.
- Valuable experience with Microsoft packages.
Qualifications
BSc in Nutrition/Health Education /Food science/ Nursing or equivalent
