Job Title: Nutrition Expert Officer
Organisation: Action Against Hunger
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre La Faim or ACF) is a global humanitarian organization dedicated to ending world hunger and malnutrition. Founded in France in 1979 by a group of French doctors, scientists, and writers, the NGO operates as a coordinated international network spanning more than 50 countries. The organization provides life-saving interventions for malnourished children while equipping communities with clean water, sustainable food solutions, healthcare, and livelihood training.
Job Summary: The Nutrition Expert will ensure integration of nutrition outcomes into agricultural production, household food security, kitchen gardens, dietary diversity, cooking demonstrations, and behavior change activities.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead integration of nutrition-sensitive agriculture into crop, livestock, and household resilience interventions.
- Support promotion of nutrient-dense crops, kitchen gardens, diversified food production, and household-level food utilization.
- Design and supervise nutrition education sessions and cooking demonstrations.
- Work with field teams, CBFs, women’s groups, caregivers, and community structures to promote dietary diversity.
- Support linkage of eligible caregivers and households with relevant health and nutrition services where appropriate.
- Ensure nutrition messaging is culturally appropriate and aligned with local food systems.
- Track household participation in nutrition training, cooking demonstrations, kitchen garden establishment, and dietary diversity-related outcomes.
- Contribute to success stories, behavior change documentation, and nutrition-sensitive agriculture reports.
- Nutrition-sensitive agriculture implementation plan.
- Nutrition training and cooking demonstration reports.
- Kitchen garden tracking reports.
- Dietary diversity and household resilience monitoring inputs.
- Nutrition-related case studies and learning products.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Degree in Nutrition, Food Science, Agriculture, Public Health Nutrition, Home Economics, Community Development, or related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in nutrition-sensitive agriculture, food security and nutrition programming, community nutrition, or behavior change communication.
- Experience working with women, caregivers, children under five, and vulnerable households.
- Experience in refugee settlements or humanitarian-development programming is preferred.
- Strong skills in participatory training, community mobilization, and culturally appropriate nutrition messaging.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and Interested applicants should apply online at the link below.
NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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Level of Education: bachelor degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60