Project Officer - Nutrition

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Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

To implement and monitor nutrition activities in emergency programs. He/she will be responsible for implementing Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition, Maternal infant and young child nutrition, Positive Hearth Deviance and other approaches which include Baby Friendly community initiatives, Family MUAC, IMAM Surge and capacity building of health workers, community health promoters and community leaders.

He/she will be responsible to ensure quality program implementation in line with the planned budget; monitor program effectiveness and support surveys and assessments. Work in close collaboration with and active involvement of the county and sub county health officials, health staff of the target health facilities and the communities.

 

Please Note: World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization with a mission centred on following Jesus Christ in service to the world´s most vulnerable children. Therefore, in all locations to the fullest extent legally permissible, the successful applicant will affirm our core documents, observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, serve at a high level of professional ethics, and strive to act in accordance with cultural sensitivities. Furthermore, regular attendance with team and office devotions, chapel, and prayer gatherings are expected in line with policies in the World Vision host location and its departments.

Job Responsibilities:

Programmatic and technical Implementation for nutrition projects

• Ensure all malnourished children, pregnant and lactating women are identified, admitted and discharged from IMAM programs as per national Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) guidelines
• Support the communities to identify Nutrition gaps and develop community led solutions during implementation of nutrition and livelihoods projects.
• Provide technical support to the Ministry of Health staff to be able to implement PD Hearth, BFCI, IMAM Surge and Family MUAC models at both County and Sub County level.
• Work closely with community Health promoters to mobilize communities to participate in nutrition project interventions
• Strengthening of community structures to ensure they receive appropriate health and nutrition services.
• Support Community health promoters to conduct household nutrition counselling for project beneficiaries at community level.
• Ensure effective integration of gender, child protection, disability, Christian commitment and advocacy into nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions.
• Integration of nutrition into livelihood interventions to ensure food security at household level.
• In liaison with project accountant ensure monthly tracking of project expenditure and manage work plans and budgets.

Quality assurance for programmatic Designs, Assessments, Monitoring and Evaluation processes

• Develop quality reports: weekly situation reports, monthly reports and quarterly reports as per WV and/donor(s) reporting guidelines
• In liaison with other project partners and MoH develop monitoring plan, analyse nutrition information from health information system and other sources to understand trends for timely decision making
• Document success stories, and best practices to demonstrate the impact created by WVK from the project implementation
• Monitor project implementation levels and report progress, impact and best practices.
• Work with M&E officer to develop ToRs for various activities that require external support and identify specific data requirements.
• Support MOH monitoring to ensure strengthened health systems and accurate reporting in the KHIS.
• Ensure timely analysis of monitoring data and dissemination to key stakeholders for management decision making.
• Support the implementation of processes to ensure quality of existing project data, and information collection.
• Ensure the project is compliant to the Humanitarian accountability requirements.
• Ensure Project alignment to the donor requirements and support office evaluation protocols and methodological tools.
• Ensure reporting to the CMAM database and PD Hearth database.

Advocacy, Engagement, Networking & Partnerships & Resource Acquisition

• Represent WVK in nutrition stakeholder meetings county and/or sub-county levels.
• Participate in advocacy activities to ensure resource allocation to nutrition by county governments.
• Engaging with MoH at County & Sub-County level to influence resource allocation nutrition
• Identify potential areas for fundraising   and provide information to inform fund raising initiatives for health and nutrition, education, gender, child protection and disability at all levels.
• Identify potential areas for fundraising   and provide information to inform fund raising initiatives for health and nutrition, education, gender, child protection and disability at all levels

Enhanced Empowerment, Documentation & Capacity Development 

• Ensure capacity Building of government officers, community members and CBOs to enable them effectively manage and sustain Health and Nutrition interventions.
• Conduct training and sensitization of health facility staff and Community Health Promoters on PD Hearth, BFCI, MIYCN, IMAM, Family and micronutrients supplementation.
• Support the Sub-County and County nutrition officers to conduct community Training and follow ups for community units.
• Ensure continuous learning and documentation of lessons learnt and best practices for program design, monitoring and evaluation frameworks related to emergency response.
• Coordinate the sharing of learning related to MEAL practices across offices and provide support when internal/external reviews, evaluations, and lessons learned exercises should be employed.
• Support the development of project case studies, human interest stories, documentaries and other related materials.
• In collaboration with M&E officers document lessons learnt and reports (printed, visual) and published for sharing with the donor and other partners and proactively share information and learning with internal and external stakeholders.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional experience

• At least three years working experience in maternal infant and young child nutrition, CMAM, IMAM-surge and Micronutrient’s supplementation.
• Good understanding of Ministry of health systems, Nutrition programming models, standards and guidelines, Ministries of Health structures at county and national levels
• Familiarity of national Health and Nutrition policy and advocacy instruments and structures
• First-hand experience in Community Emergency Programming
• Significant experience working with an NGO environment, community and people’s groups, state institutions etc.
• Familiarity with gender inclusion in community interventions.
• Good analytical skills with appropriate attention to details
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills.
• High professional ethics and integrity
• Good Empirical knowledge of humanitarian codes, principles and practice;
• Computer literacy in MS office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
• Excellent team player with ability to work under minimum supervision

Required Education & Certification

• Must have a minimum of a Minimum of Bachelor degree in Nutrition, or the equivalent from a recognized University.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Experience working in multicultural, multi-location, values driven teams;
• Experience in working on donor funded programs 
• Good understanding of Nutrition programming in emergency and developmental contexts

World Vision Kenya:

• Has not outsourced its recruitment process to any organization or agency that, through website postings, e-mail messages, newsletters or otherwise, claim to be doing recruitment on its behalf.
• Does not solicit money for any part of its recruitment processes including short-listing, interviews, or medical checks.
• Will not be responsible for such fraudulent correspondence or any loss of money or theft, which may result from anyone engaging in such recruitment activity.
• Victims of such fraudulent correspondence may wish to report it to law enforcement authorities.

World Vision Kenya is part of the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector and all candidates will thus be screened as appropriate for any safeguarding related misconduct

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only