Concern Worldwide Surveys & Consultancy Jobs

Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced Kenyan Nationals for the following positions:

Nutrition Project Manager

 
Location: Moyale
Duration: 1 year

Job summary:

Reporting to Head of Marsabit County Field Office with a technical reporting line to the Nutrition Programme Coordinator, the position holder will be responsible for providing technical leadership, guidance, training and capacity building to the MoH (Ministry of Health) staff and to Concern Worldwide nutrition programme partners in Moyale/Sololo Districts in the implementation of the High Impact Nutrition Interventions (HINI) including CMAM (Community based Management of Acute Malnutrition) programme and to document the process. 

The Nutrition Project Manager will be based in Moyale and tasked with the full-time management of this programme, including supervision of staff based in Moyale.

Summary of Essential Qualifications:

A degree in nursing or Public Health with 5 years’ experience in implementation of nutrition programs and good understanding of High Impact Nutrition Interventions approach in the delivery of integrated Maternal and child health and nutrition services; at least three years’ experience working of community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programmes, at least two years’ experience in a supervisory role; significant experience/knowledge of MoH systems, particularly at the provincial and district level.

Assistant Nutrition Project Manager

Location: Loitokitok
Duration: 1 year

Job summary:

Reporting to the Nutrition Project Manager (Kajiado based), the position holder will be responsible for providing technical leadership, guidance and capacity building as well as providing hands on support to Ministry of Health (MoH), local partners and community groups to enhance their capacity and skills in the delivery of High Impact Nutrition Interventions(HiNi).

Summary of Essential Qualifications:

A degree in Nutrition or Nursing with solid experience/background in nutrition; 3 years’ experience in implementation of nutrition programs, good understanding of High Impact Nutrition Interventions approach in the delivery of integrated nutrition services; strong organisation skills, initiative, tidiness and honesty; diplomatic when dealing with partners and good understanding of working of MOH systems

Consultant- Nutrition Surveys (international applicants will be considered)

Location: Nairobi-surveys will be conducted in Moyale, Marsabit and Kajiado
Duration: 3 months

Job summary:

Reporting to the National Nutrition and Health Coordinator the position holder will be expected to; review the proposed methodology for carrying out the nutrition and mortality surveys, revise survey tools that reflect the current HiNi approach, train the data collectors, supervising data collection and quality, oversee the data entry, cleaning and analysis process, establishment of Community Based
Surveillance System in the Programme Areas

Expected Outputs:

Comprehensive survey reports with practical recommendations in addressing identified nutrition situations, cleaned version of the raw data used to calculate survey results, feedback the Nutrition survey findings to the partners at the field level (Nutrition and Health stakeholders) and at the national level.

Summary of Essential Qualifications:

An MPH or MSc (Nutrition) with a strong statistical background and solid competency in therapeutic and supplementary feeding in humanitarian emergencies , five years’ experience in conducting SMART Surveys, previous experience in setting up community based surveillance systems, good and sound understanding of statistical programmes such as SPSS, EPI-Info, ENA CPRo and Stata. However, CSPro, ENA and SPSS are a must and Strong statistical and data management skills.

The detailed ToRs for these positions may be obtained by sending an email to the following address:

concern.kenyavacancies@concern.net

Interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, should apply by sending a CV and a covering letter addressed to:-

The Human Resource Manager, 

Concern Worldwide, P.O. Box 13850-00800, 

Nairobi, 

to the following email address:
nairobi.hr@concern.net

The closing date for application is Friday, 4th May, 2012. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview

Each application should include two referees who can validate technical expertise. Telephone contacts must be submitted with the application.

Concern has a Code of Conduct and a Programme Participant Protection Policy to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from abuse and exploitation.