Nutrition Officer at Life at Best Development Initiative (LABDI)

Life at Best Development Initiative (LABDI) is a team of change-makers who believe that every helping hand can create a better future for survivors of wars. We started extending help to vulnerable children and women who were affected by the insurgency which began in Borno state, Nigeria, in 2009. This moment intensified when we found that there were many such vulnerable children, women, and households who needed help with food, shelter, and education. Our team expanded and we spread out into different parts of the BAY states to make sure we cover all possible areas and help as many children, women, and households as possible. We support children, families, and communities affected by insurgencies and natural disasters.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nutrition Officer

Location: Borno

Job Summary

• The Nutrition Officer will provide support to nutrition programmes and activities to contribute to meeting the nutritional needs of NHF/LABDI beneficiaries.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Plan and monitor Nutrition programmed, verify the planned movements and distribution of nutrition products, resolving routine issues and/or escalating where appropriate, to ensure that the quantity distributed, and the quality of the operation is in line with the standards.
• Summarize Nutrition data, conduct analysis and prepare reports to support programme reviews and informative decision-making.
• Improvements to field staff/monitoring processes and procedures for efficient implementation of Nutrition programmers.
• Build team capacity in Nutrition through effective guidance, coaching, training, and accountability.
• Assist in developing and expanding malnutrition prevention activities through promotion of IYCF and awareness raising in targeted areas.
• Strengthen eternal stakeholder engagement including district local governments to strengthen nutrition programming.
• Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure NHF/LABDI can quickly respond and deploy needed resources to affected areas at the onset of the crisis.
• Participate in national level nutrition technical working group discussions as may be required by the Project/Sector Manager.
• Any other duties as may be required.

Qualifications (Know How)
Education / Training:

Required:

• University Degree / HND / OND in any of the following disciplines: Nutrition, Public Health, or related field.  

Desired:

• First Degree in a related field.  

Experience:
Required:

• At least 3 years experience in Nutrition, Biology, Public Health, Nursing, or food aid support.
• Good experience in supervision is required. 
• Experience with survey methodologies, nutrition assessment and relevant data analysis.

Desired:

• Previous experience working with an INGO, National NGO or a Development organization.  

Technical Skills:
Required:

• 2 - 3 years progressively responsible experience in Nursing, Biology, Nutrition/or Public Health Sector or directly related area.
• Fluency in English and Hausa,kanuri and Mafa.

Desired:

• Experience in a development and/or humanitarian organization. 
• Strong knowledge of Nutrition and/or Public Health.
• Advanced computers skills at least intermediate skills in windows-based word processing, spreadsheet.
• Ability to establish priorities, plan, coordinate and organize own work plan.
• Resourcefulness, initiative, maturity, tact, advocacy skills.
• Excellent analytical, conceptual, communication and public speaking skills
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment and work without direction.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications (Letter of Motivation and CV) in a single PDF file to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Note: Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.