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Earn Over 9m monthly as Senior Nutritionist RWANU at Concern WorldWide
Job Title: Senior Nutritionist RWANU
Organisation: Concern WorldWide
Project: RWANU
Duty Station: Moroto
Town, Karamoja, Uganda
Town, Karamoja, Uganda
Ref: JO/UG/NUT
Reports To: Health and Nutrition Director RWANU
Salary: €31,853
to €38,944 with benefits
to €38,944 with benefits
About Concern:
Concern Worldwide is an
Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation
dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate
elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.
Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation
dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate
elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.
About
RWANU:
RWANU:
Concern implements RWANU
which takes a preventive approach to reducing malnutrition, focusing on the
first 1,000 days of life. The health and nutrition component of the program
strengthens provision of basic health care for women and children, implements
social and behavior change (SBC) activities for key health, nutrition, and
hygiene behaviors, as well as preventative food rations for pregnant and
lactating women and children 6-23 months of age. The behaviour change approach
is implemented primarily through the mother caregroup approach.
which takes a preventive approach to reducing malnutrition, focusing on the
first 1,000 days of life. The health and nutrition component of the program
strengthens provision of basic health care for women and children, implements
social and behavior change (SBC) activities for key health, nutrition, and
hygiene behaviors, as well as preventative food rations for pregnant and
lactating women and children 6-23 months of age. The behaviour change approach
is implemented primarily through the mother caregroup approach.
Job
Summary: The Senior
Nutritionist is responsible for technical oversight of all nutrition components
of RWANU, implemented by Concern. The Senior Nutritionist manages and builds
the capacity of the local technical team and designs nutritional and behaviour
change modules and supports the implementation of all nutrition related
technical inputs.
Summary: The Senior
Nutritionist is responsible for technical oversight of all nutrition components
of RWANU, implemented by Concern. The Senior Nutritionist manages and builds
the capacity of the local technical team and designs nutritional and behaviour
change modules and supports the implementation of all nutrition related
technical inputs.
Key
Duties & Responsibilities:
Duties & Responsibilities:
1. Management and Quality
Control of Technical components:
Control of Technical components:
- Manage,
supervise, provide ongoing technical support and leadership to nutrition
staff located across the Karamoja region - Line
management and mentoring of
Nutrition Counterpart, Programme Support Officer and Social and Behaviour Change Specialist. - Ensure
that line reports have regularly set and reviewed personal performance objectives that contribute to the delivery of RWANU. - Strategising
and sequencing nutrition components of Concern implemented nutrition
components of the RWANU project. This includes planning and developing
technical components for timely delivery in line with the RWANU Detailed
Implementation Plan. - Supervising
technical components of the project including all nutrition related
training, food basket monitoring process, community level nutrition
training and surveillance and technical support to Integrated Management
of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) services. This will include mentoring and
training of project staff (8 Health Educators and approximately 26 Health
Promotors) and health facility staff. - Ensure
that RWANU incorporates best practice in caregroup and nutrition
programming and contribute to learning through contributing to analysis
and research. - Deputise
for Health and Nutrition Director- MYAP in their absence from project
area.
2. Materials and Curriculum
development:
development:
- Responsible
for the delivery of Nutrition and Behaviour Change related project
components in line with RWANU technical narrative and quarterly and annual
workplans & targets - Develop
Curriculum and Behaviour Change messages for project components. This
includes core modules for mother care groups and nutrition related
messaging to key project stakeholders. - Liaising
with Nutrition Advisor (US based) and technical staff of partner agencies
in developing curriculum, materilas and IEC products . - Coordinating
photography, graphic and printing inputs for materials production. - Leads
on the operational research, in conjuntion with the Health and Nutrition
Director, including developing ToRs, supervising the consultants and
ensuring the report findings are disseminated and adopted in the programme
3. Training& Capacity
Building:
Building:
- Participate
in recruitment, induction and capacity building of technical staff - Lead
on developing all Nutrition and Caregroup related training and support
national technical staff in delivering training. - Keeping
the team and project partners up to
date with new innovations in the delivery of nutrition programmes
4. Advocacy:
- Advocate
and liase with local government,District Health Teams and nutrition stakeholders for the
smooth implementation of nutrition related project components. - Participate
in regional nutrition advocacy initiatives and represent Concern at
Nutrition related meetings/events in Karamoja region. - Negotiating
with stakeholders’ adjustments to programme plans or new interventions as
nescessary.
5. M&E and Reporting:
- Oversight
of Project Census Database and ensure Mother Care Groups are updated
continuously. - Manage
the compilation and analysis of nutritional or other related data analyis - Lead
on all nutrition related reporting. - As
required attends partner and other stakeholders meetings and undertakes
joint project supervision with relevant stakeholders
Qualifications, Skills
& Experience:
& Experience:
- The candidate should
hold a Masters’ degree
in Nutrition. - At
least five years experience in nutrition field with minimum 2 years
working on applied nutrition issues including household-level consumption,
nutrition related behaviour change & care group models; - Good
understanding of the first 1000 days approach for the prevention of
malnutrition - Two
years experience in programme/team management and building capacity of
diverse teams. - Good
participatory planning skills and excellent communication and relationship
building skills. - Strong
IT and understanding database software skills; - Ability
to analyse data and write project reports to a high standard. - Experience
in clinical supportive supervision for CMAM/IMAM - Experience
in implementing components of behaviour change into a programme - Experience
in implementing large projects in challenging environments. - Medical
Nursing/ Public Health Background is desirable - Prior
Experience with USAID projects.
How
to Apply:
to Apply:
All candidates should send
their applications our website at https://jobs.concern.net
.
their applications our website at https://jobs.concern.net
.
Additional Instructions:
- All
CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length. - All
candidates who are short-listed for a first round interview will be
notified via email after the application deadline.
Deadline: 16th
December, 2013
December, 2013
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