Nutrition Officer and Assistant at Haske Humanitarian Aid Initiative - Adamawa & Bauchi

Haske Humanitarian Aid Initiative (HHAI) is a women and youth driven organization established in the year 2022, and since its establishment to date, the organization has striven to continuously interface and engage with key stakeholders at all level to support in addressing gaps in the health sector, improve nutrition indices, and women’s agency, health, and socio-economic empowerment from the grassroot level which will provide an enabling environment and a robust healthy community. We strive for positive change in the way the community response to the health and socio-economic wellbeing of women, young adolescents, and children under 5 and to achieve an immediate and lasting change in their lives by providing the enabling environment. Across all our work, we pursue several core values: Honesty, accountability, ambition, professionalism, collaboration, creativity and integrity.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nutrition Officer and Assistant

Locations: Adamawa and Bauchi

Job Description

• The Nutrition officer and Assistant will be responsible for the implementation of HHAI NUTRITION program in Adamawa and Bauchi. The team will support the implementation and monitoring of all nutrition activities in the selected LGAs of Implementation in Bauchi and Adamawa State

Responsibilities

• Provide key Nutrition education messages to beneficiaries based on the protocols and guidelines during sensitization.
• Follow up and ensure the field team interacts with the beneficiaries and community leaders properly.
• Supervise activities of community health focal points, and community volunteers in cluster LGAs.
• Work with MEAL team in beneficiary verification and contribute to various project Reports
• Ensure program approaches and implementation are sensitive to cultural and gender dynamics.
• Provide technical assistance LGA teams and Health Workers on nutrition, with a particular focus on development of effective methodologies to improve health and nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and practices.
• Conduct follow-up monitoring of nutrition-related activities and document findings to feed into improved programming
• Represent the organization at LGA and State meetings involving nutrition actors.
• Liaise and secure consent from the local authorities and beneficiaries prior to intervention.
• Working in harmony with all other project staff and field team for the effective and efficient day-to-day management of the NUTRITION activities in Adamawa and Bauchi.
• Participate in preparing monthly/quarterly/annual highlights/ reports and proposals and budgets for donors when needed.
• Coordinate community mobilization and sensitization of community on NUTRITION activities.
• Follow up, inspect and ensure project materials are delivered as per specified measurements at field level in a timely way, and follow up those not delivered as per requisition.
• Identify, engage and interface with other Implementing partners for efficient and effective implementation of the activities.
• Any other duties that may be assigned from time by supervisors.
• Coordinate and participate in project startup/project closure workshops, baseline survey and end of Project Evaluation for the project as per project design and within the project implementation deadlines.
• Prepare project documentation including monthly project reports.

Qualification and Requirements

• Degree in Nutrition and other relevant fields, especially Health, Public health, Environmental Health Science, or equivalent professional qualification.
• Minimum of 1-year programming experience with relevant working experience, preferably in Nutrition sector
• Proven ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills, calm, and a good sense of humour.
• Very good understanding of Nutrition policies, strategies, and programs.
• Experience in community-based interventions.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and representative skills (written, oral, cross-cultural).
• Ability to work with multicultural teams.
• Skills in training and management.
• Proficiency in the use of computers (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint Presentation).
• Ability to speak English fluently, Hausa and other local languages desirable.

Application Closing Date
14th November, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter as a single PDF document to: haskehumanitarianaidinitiative@gmail.com using the job Title as the subject of the mail.
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Note
By submitting your Application for this position you agreed to HHAI ZERO Tolerance to:

• Fraud
• Sexual Harassment, Exploitation, Abuse and Child Abuse
• Our employees enjoy a work culture that promotes diversity and inclusion.