Nutrition Officer (Roster) at CTG Global

Role objectives    

• Program implementation:
• Support implementation of CMAM (Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition) & IMAM (Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition) services in line with national & international protocols.
• Supervise screening & referral of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) & Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) cases using Mid Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) & other indicators.
• Coordinate Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programs (BSFP) & Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programs (TSFP) at facility & community levels.
• Support IYCF (Infant & Young Child Feeding) counselling & behaviour change communication activities.
• Capacity building & coordination:
• Train & mentor Community Health Workers (CHWs), partner staff & volunteers on nutrition protocols.
• Participate in nutrition coordination forums & working groups as required.
• Liaise with health, protection, food security & education actors to ensure integrated programming.
• Monitoring, data & reporting:
• Support collection & analysis of nutrition data using tools such as KOBO, DHIS2, Excel & SMART survey outputs.
• Contribute to situation reports, donor reports & internal performance monitoring.
• Ensure that gender, protection, inclusion & Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) are integrated into monitoring & feedback mechanisms.
• Project reporting    
• This role reports to the line manager.

Key competencies    

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in nutrition, public health, food science or a related field.

Experience:

• Minimum of three (3) years of progressively responsible experience in nutrition programming in humanitarian or low resource settings, opportunities also exists for more senior candidates.
• Demonstrated experience with CMAM, IMAM & IYCF implementation.