Nutrition Officer
Trócaire, Somalia
Job Description
Trócaire works in partnership with national and local organisations, supporting communities in over 20 developing countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to bring about lasting change. Trócaire envisages a just and peaceful world where people’s dignity is ensured and rightsare respected, basic needs are met and resources are shared equitably, peoplehave control over their own lives and those inpower act for the common good.
The role of the Nutrition Officer provides technical leadership, guidance and training as well as providing hands on support to Ministry of Health, District Health Board and community groups to enhance their capacity and skills in the rollout of High Impact Nutrition interventions. The Nutrition Officer has responsibility for ensuring high quality services at static facilities (stabilisation centres) and for outreach activities.
Reporting to Nutrition Coordinator this is a fixed term contract for one year and is based in Gedo, Somalia.
Safeguarding Programme Participants-Children amp; Adults
Trócaire is committed to Safeguarding people within our programmes from Exploitation and Abuse and has specific policies on this commitment (including a Global Code of Conduct) which outlines the expected behaviour and responsibility of all staff, consultants and other organisational representatives. Any candidate offered a job with Trócaire will be expected to sign Trócaire’s Safeguarding Policies and Global Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.
Key Duties amp; Responsibilities
Project design and implementation.
· Support the design and delivery of high-quality standards of programming and contribute to effective program quality in all nutrition related multifaceted grants.
· Take responsibility for inpatient service delivery at Trocaire supported nutrition stabilization centres (SCs) across Gedo.
·Oversee and coordinate the implementation of IYCF activities at the health facilities and through Mother-to-Mother Support Groups in targeted community.
·Provide technical support to DHB/MoH staff through structured Trainings, OJT/mentorship on delivery of High Impact Nutrition intervention components at health facilities.
·Work closely with the District Health Board Nurses, Nutrition Officers, Health Officers, BCC supervisors, IYCF focal persons and Hospital matron and ensure the development and implementation of monthly work plans for the district.
·work closely with the resilience team and ensure linkages between the nutrition program and the resilience and WASH programs are applied where feasible.
· While working with the hospital matron and the DHB, support the rural health facilities to establish referral systems and create referral links for access to the nearest in-patient facility and other services beneficial to the beneficiaries not provided by the rural health facilities.
·Play an active role in the operationalization of community mobilization activities; facilitate recruitment, training, and supervision of Community Health/Nutrition Workers.
· Actively provide technical support to teams conducting outreaches across Gedo districts where Trocaire is offering integrated health and nutrition services.
Programme Quality
·Support the Nutrition coordinator in documentation of the programme implementation process to generate lesson learning as well as case studies.
· Participate in the implementation of nutrition surveillance and the coordination of KAP and coverage surveys to assesses the Nutrition situation of the target population.
· Ensure programme quality control through implementation of monthly and quarterly Mamp;E.
· Work closely with the Coordinator and MEAL team in monitoring the nutrition situation in Trocaire areas of work.
· Writing of monthly reports such as consolidated monthly IMAM and BCC data, submission of monthly ONA/3W matrix and briefs, as well as quarterly reports.
· Conduct joint monthly Support Supervision visits Together with MOH and other partners involved in delivery of nutrition services in the district.
· Work closely with the Trocaire, Donors, UNICEF, and WFP (where applicable) contact staff to ensure that all health facilities have adequate supplies of therapeutic commodities, at all times.
· Ensure that supplies pipeline is established and consistency in timely delivery of supplies to health facilities is maintained by developing monthly/Quarterly distributi