Project Officer at World Vision Kenya

Responsibilities for the Project Officer Job

Project design, planning and implementation

• Ensure all children, pregnant and lactating women are identified, admitted and discharged from emergency nutrition programs as per national Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition(IMAM guidelines and
• Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition
• To work closely with MOH and other partners to establish a referral mechanisms of both moderately and severely malnourished children and women to Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition(IMAM), food assistance programs or other health services
• In liaison with Ministry of Health organize and coordinate integrated outreaches in hard to reach areas to increase access to nutrition services
• In liaison with Ministry of health mobilize Community Volunteers for biweekly screening and treatment of children. pregnant and lactating for acute malnutrition
• Mobilize communities to participate in nutrition project interventions though the community health workers
• Conduct health and nutrition education sessions, screening children for malnutrition, systematic treatment, supplementary and therapeutic food distribution
• Conduct training to health facility staff and Community Health Volunteers on treatment, referral of children and reporting of children with acute malnutrition
• Integrate WASH and livelihood messages during nutrition activities such as during mass screening, supplementary and outpatient therapeutic program activities
• Ensure good storage, handling of all food commodities at health facilities and any other storage areas, efficient safe distribution to the beneficiaries.
• Support the Sub-County and county nutrition officers) to make timely requests and reporting for nutrition commodities and to ensure gaps in commodities are reported to county nutrition office in timely manner
• Carry out on the job training during supervision or monitoring for health facilities implementing interventions
• Ensure project processes such as purchases are done in line with WV approved policies
• Ensure integration of Child protection, Disability, Gender mainstreaming and environmental protection into nutrition interventions during the emergency response
• Participate in Sub-County or county emergency, nutrition or food security joint assessments.
• In liaison with the Accountant track project implementation expenditure levels and budgets
• In collaboration with Area Programs Manager, ensure the timely preparation and implementation of phase-out of emergency nutrition projects

Monitoring, Reporting and Documentation

• Develop quality reports: weekly situation reports , monthly reports and quarterly reports as per WV and/donor(s) reporting guidelines
• Monitor recovery of beneficiaries in nutrition projects as per SPHERE standards
• In liaison with MoH develop monitoring plan ,analyse nutrition information from health information system to understand trends of beneficiaries for timely decision making
• Monthly monitor project expenditure and level of implementation and report any variances to the Area
• Programs Manager and/ or NO Program Officer (focal person) for decision making
• Document best practices, human interest stories and work with Area Programs Manager and M&E officer to refine the stories for publication

Advocacy, Engagement and Networking

• Represent WVK in nutrition stakeholder meetings county and sub-county levels.
• Engaging with MoH as Sub-County or county level to influence resource allocation nutrition

Project Officer Job Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Food Nutrition and Dietetics, Food Science or Community nutrition or related field from a recognized university
• At least two years field experience in projects integrating nutrition to livelihood
• Demonstrated experience in integrating nutrition and other sectors
• Demonstrate experience and skills in advocacy
• Experience in local level partnerships including Government Line Ministries(Agriculture, Ministry of Water, Ministry of Water and other stakeholders
• Must be registered with the Kenya Nutrition and Dietetics Institute (KNDI)
• Computer literate – Microsoft Office and ENA