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Reporting to: Nutrition and Health Programme Manager
Proposed start date: December 2024
Key Responsibilities
The Nutrition and Health Officer is responsible:
- Update tracking tool to monitor programmed screening based data on acute malnutrition; collect health facility based disease surveillance reports and update morbidity reporting tool for assigned health facilities/LGAs;
- Update and maintain 5W/4W mapping (Health/Nutrition sector) tool on a monthly basis for the operational LGA; and share with the Nutrition and Health Programmed Manager;
- Participate with M&E team in supervision of data collection for nutrition assessments;
- Liaise with Nutrition Assistants for accessing community support group database; health facility database on a regular basis and updating overall health facility based activities;
- Conduct ongoing capacity assessment of health workers on CMAM services delivery, vaccination etc. and review the training needs and/or coaching needs;
- Support the Nutrition and Health Programmed Manager in facilitating and organizing technical trainings for health workers (including on LMIS, HMIS);
- Ensure use of predefined quality assessment checklist, on-job coaching guidance as well as support Nutrition and Health Assistants in using these tools;
- Review financial, logistical and HR needs on a monthly & quarterly basis and share with the NHSM;
- Ensure that all health facilities/sites have adequate supplies to delivery uninterrupted services through identifying needs, informing line manager on regular basis;
- Support the Nutrition and Health Programmed Manager in organizing LGA based coordination meeting;
- Prepare individual monthly action plan in reference to work plan and share with the Nutrition and Health Programmed Manager in regular monthly planning meeting with nutrition teams.
- Ensure that all children and patients visiting ACF supported facilities are properly examined and treated according to national nutritional protocols and standards;
- Identify gaps for WASH in health facilities and inform the Nutrition and Health Programme Manager on a regular basis;
- Ensure availability of essential nutrition supplies in assigned health facilities including data tools;
- Monitor for appropriate documentation–IMAM treatment registers/tools, individual child growth monitoring cards;
- Identify financial requirements, logistic needs, HR support in reference to work plan and inform the NPM to prepare budget forecast;
- Draft supply request and share with Nutrition and Health Manager on a monthly basis;
- Facilitate quarterly review meetings/workshops with respective government focal person at State/LGA level;
- Develop monthly monitoring and supervision plan for the LGA and share with the Nutrition and Health Programmed Manager;
- Ensure that specific monitoring finding is reported to the Nutrition and Health Programme Manager with potential solutions;
- During supervision visit, identify gaps in supply sides and report to the Nutrition and Health Programme Manager for remedial action;
- Ensure that referral are made to the nearest stabilization centers and track for possible discharge back to community, and all pregnant women at high-risk and other medical complications.
- Maintain individual monitoring & supervision plan as well as for the supervisee;
- Regularly follow up with the teams on the progress of activity, challenges and guide on necessary actions;
- Share training plans with identified needs to the PM well in advance to facilitate support from HR/Admin/Logistics;
- Track Supervisee’s daily attendance, validate monthly attendance for supervisee, and submit it on a timely basis to HR;
- Communicate with HR for necessary staff meeting, performance review, appraisals, and leaves of supervisee;
- Liaise with HR to provide orientation on ACF charter/Core Values/Child Safeguarding Policy/Staff Code of Conduct etc;
- Ensure rational use of all medical equipment and stationaries in health facilities;
- Ensure that Nutrition Assistants are using standard monitoring checklist during visit to health facilities.
- Maintain and update database for health workers, community health workers/volunteers, trainings and share with line manager;
- Prepare consolidated tracking tool for supportive supervision visits/on-job coaching sessions and share with line manager;
- Update LGA work plans, individual work plans and share with line manager;
- Use appropriate attendance sheet on-job coaching sessions, workshops/meetings and trainings and share a copy with line manager;
- Use specific supervision checklist during supervision visits and archive filled supervision checklists with summary report – every month;
- Fill the Nutrition evolution reports every month for the LGA and share it with line manager for consolidation;
- Support government health workers in preparing the integrated diseases surveillance report, monthly facility based DHIS2 report;
- Provide summary analysis from the LGA report including –
- Significant contextual changes that have impact on nutrition operations.
- Bullet points on progress of training, on-job coaching and supportive supervision.
- Feedback on quality of service provision through monitoring visits (checklist to be used).
- Key challenges and proposed solutions.
- Collect consumption reports from health facilities, compile for LGA and share with line manager with needs for upcoming month;
- Regularly report and coordinate with line manager regarding challenges, issues faced in the field for timely and appropriate decision-making.
Position Requirement:
Education Qualification: Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Public Health or other relevant qualifications with experience in Public Health and IMAM programming
- Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in nutrition programing;
- An excellent report-writing skill is required including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
- Fluent in written and spoken English and Hausa;
- Good communication and Interpersonal skills;
- Team management experience with similar programs;
- Ability to observe and to provide feedback on the activities;
- Ability to manage staff according to local culture and organization policies.