Nutrition Officer Job in Dadaab Kenya - Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world.

Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse (SP) has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Job Position: Nutrition Officer

Vacancies: 1 Position

Reports to: Nutrition Coordinator

Duty Station: Dadaab

Department: Kenya Programs

Following the declaration of food insecurity in the country and recommendations from the short rains assessment, SP intends to implement a 5 month Nutrition program in West Pokot targeting children below five years, pregnant and lactating women.

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.

If you are interested in this position please send your C.V only and an application letter to hr@spkenya.org or amusa@samaritan.org

Application deadline: Friday, September 28th 2011

Only short listed applicants will be contacted.

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