Nutritional Intervention Consultants at Management Sciences for Health

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves health, especially among the world's poorest and most vulnerable people, by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. Our mission is to save lives and improve the health of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Nutritional Intervention Consultant

Job ID: 13-8627
Location: Nigeria-Abuja
Grade: Senior
Group/Office: HP
Dept/Unit: GEN (General)
Project/Program: A056 PRO-ACT
Reports To: Senior Clinical Advisor

Overall Responsibilities

• Following PEPFAR strategic demand for accountability and reporting of nutritional intervention among HIV positive children in MSH Pro-ACT care and treatment program, MSH will train a pull of health care workers to meet the new program goal.
• In view of this, MSH will engage 4 experienced facilitators who will lead and conduct the training to support nutritional intervention at the health facility level.
• The facilitators will have a 2 days pre-training meeting with MSH technical team at the central level to harmonize and align capacity building outputs with PEPFAR expectations.
• 153 participants drawn across 41 health facilities and MSH and M&E staff will be trained in 4 batches from November 9th to 14 2015.
• Additionally, eligible trainers from the center for health professional continuing education will support the process to further strengthen and sustain capacity building efforts in the states.

Specific Responsibilities
Terms of reference (TOR):

• The facilitators will work in pairs to facilitate/conduct a 3-days two batches of back-to back capacity building on severe and moderate acute malnutrition.
• The facilitators will conduct a pre- and post-test evaluation before and after the training including making available a comprehensive report
• The facilitators will guide and ensure the documentation and analysis of daily evaluation forms as this will form the basis for improvement of future trainings
• S/he will lead the practical sessions at the facility including taking participants through on how to assess and document malnutrition intervention in the appropriate documentation tools
• The facilitators will adapt work group sessions for the training to reflect the cadre of technical persons participating at the training including capacity to transfer such knowledge to facility level staff.
• At the end of the engagement, the facilitators will provide a comprehensive report of the process and outcomes as detailed above including a post training facility level plans.

Deliverables:

• Train 153 health care workers and a number of MSH Staff
• Compile training reports to be submitted to the leadership of MSH 72 hours post training
• Document and share post training plans for sustainable service delivery at the facility level
• Share recommendation to improve facility level intervention.

Consultant Responsibilities

• The facilitators are expected to have a touch based session with MSH technical team prior to the training to harmonize training messages and expected training outputs.

Roles of PROACT:

• Provide all the financial requirements - Accommodation and transportation
• Provide logistics required for the trainings.

Qualifications
Criteria for Selection of Training Facilitators on Nutrition:
Training:

• Have undergone a TOT or training on nutrition in the past with emphasis of management of Acute and Moderate severe malnutrition
• Experience in capacity building and mentoring of health staff
• Knowledge of nutritional intervention in HIV care and treatment settings
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff.

Education:

• S/he should have an advanced university Degree in Nutrition or Public Health.
• Degree in Health, Nutrition or related field e.g. MBChB, Public Health, B.Sc Nutrition
• Health / Public Health / Nutrition / B.Sc or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in primary health and nutrition programs in resource poor settings.

Experience:

• Evidence of facilitating trainings on nutrition and other related nutritional intervention trainings
• Expert Knowledge of OVC nutritional interventions including working experience with OVC programs
• Practical experience with recoding and reporting nutritional intervention
• Experience in conducting assessments and an understanding of nutritional data

General:

• Good oral/writing and communication skills
• Sample of training report conducted in the past.

Application Closing Date
28th October, 2015.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online