Nutrition Officer at GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON)

GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON) is a policy-driven humanitarian, non-governmental organization that implements her program through a revitalized partnership. It is a non-profit organization with a mandate of making the lives of vulnerable people better, those affected by disaster or crisis. GPON is presently operating in the Northeastern regional part of Nigeria where we have reached over 100,000 lives with relief materials, child protection services. GBV mitigation services, livelihood skill-building, health services, and Education support services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nutrition Officer

Location: Dikwa / Ngala LGA, Borno
Reports to: Project Coordinator
Staff reporting to this post: Project Assistant
Duration: 3 months

Role Purpose

• Under the supervision of the Project Coordinator, the Nutrition Officer will be responsible for the Nutrition project in the specified Local Government of implementations and is expected to ensure integrity, high-level transparency, and commitment in the implementation of the project.
• S/he will support project implementation, which includes but is not limited to Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition IMAM, Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNA), and other nutrition-related activities as agreed with the donor.
• The Nutrition Officer will also work with the Government and other key stakeholders in ensuring the quality delivery of nutrition interventions in the Project locations.

Key Areas of Accountability
Working closely with the Project Coordinator, the Nutrition Officer will do the following :  

• Coordinate with partners to ensure quality of nutrition screening for children conducted by Community Nutrition Mobilizers (CNM) or CHIPs in target Communities.
• Supervise and support the provision of OTP Services in target communities together with the IMAM team.
• Ensure quality of IYCF counselling sessions provided during Support group meetings and one-on-one counselling at health facilities.
• Ensure integration by coordinating with other sectors such as WASH, Health, and CP to ensure complementary services are provided.
• Monitor nutrition commodities supplied (RUTF, MNP, and others) to ensure proper utilization and avoid stockouts.
• Distribution support for Vitamin A supplementation to children 6–59 months and other commodities to beneficiaries.
• Distribution support for SAM WASH kits to SAM cases.
• Conduct community sensitisation on micronutrient uptake.
• Support in conducting Mass MUAC screening and analysis of the nutritional status of the location based on SAM and MAM cases identified and reported.
• With support from the Project Coordinator, coordinate with partners to ensure quality cooking food demonstration sessions are conducted in project-supported communities.
• Build the capacity of local partners, Health Workers, CNMs, and Mother Leaders by providing on-the-job coaching on IMAM and M-IYCN and other identified capacity building needs.
• Support Project-level nutrition assessment/surveys as approved by Donor.
• Support quality data collection of activities conducted in the Communities.
• Promote increasing awareness of appropriate nutrition behaviour in project communities by ensuring behaviour change materials are visible in supported communities and health facilities.
• Support the development of case studies and success stories from programme implementation.
• Provide maternal and child-care/feeding key messages to beneficiaries of the food program during food distribution.
• Plan Project activities in line with the detailed implementation plan, ensuring they are conducted as planned and in the right quality.
• Ensure to participate in nutrition sector meetings at the LGA and state level.
• Support the Project coordinator in procurements for the project.
• Assess and identify service delivery gaps for improves service delivery.
• Support the Project Coordinator in budgeting and reporting of activities.
• Support other duties as assigned.

Additional job responsibilities:

• The job duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to carry out additional duties within the reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Qualifications

• Certificate or Degree in Nursing, Nutrition, Human Nutrition/Dietetics, Public Health, or any related field.

Experience And Skills:

• Certificate or Degree in Nursing, Nutrition, Public Health, or any related field.
• At least 2 years of experience working in a Nutrition programme.
• Excellent report writing skills
• Good communication skills in English and local language(s) (verbal and written).
• Excellent IT Skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Highly numerate
• Confidentiality
• High level of organisation
• Timeliness.
• Willing to work additional hours at crucial times

Behaviours (Values in Practice):

• Accountability: Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving, and role modelling GPON values. Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance, and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
• Ambition: Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development, and encourages their team to do the same. Widely shares their personal vision for GPON, engages and motivates others. Thinks strategically and on a global scale.
• Collaboration: Builds and maintains effective relationships with their team, colleagues, and external partners and supporters. Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength. Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
• Creativity: Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions. Willing to take disciplined risks.
• Integrity: Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates the highest levels of integrity.

Child Safeguarding:

• The post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight). We need to keep children safe, so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Application Closing Date
29th March, 2026.