Project Officer - Nutrition at World Vision Kenya

Key Responsibilities:

Programmatic and technical Implementation for nutrition projects

• Ensure all malnourished children, pregnant and lactating women are identified, admitted and discharged from IMAM programs as per national Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) guidelines
• Support the communities to identify Nutrition gaps and develop community led solutions during implementation of NICHE project
• Provide technical support to the Ministry of Health staff to be able to implement BFCI, IMAM Surge and Family MUAC models at both County and Sub County level.
• Work closely with community Health promoters to mobilize communities to participate in nutrition project interventions
• Strengthening of community structures to ensure they receive appropriate health and nutrition services.
• Support Community health promoters to conduct household nutrition counselling for project beneficiaries at community level.
• Ensure effective integration of gender, child protection, disability, Christian commitment and advocacy into nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions.
• Integration of nutrition into livelihood interventions to ensure food security at household level.
• In liaison with project accountant ensure monthly tracking of project expenditure and manage work plans and budgets.

Quality assurance for programmatic Designs, Assessments, Monitoring and Evaluation processes

• Develop quality reports: weekly situation reports, monthly reports and quarterly reports as per WV and/donor(s) reporting guidelines
• In liaison with other project partners and MoH develop monitoring plan, analyze nutrition information from health information system and other sources to understand trends for timely decision making
• Document success stories, and best practices to demonstrate the impact created by WVK from the project implementation
• Monitor project implementation levels and report progress, impact and best practices.
• Work with M&E officer to develop ToRs for various activities that require external support and identify specific data requirements.
• Support MOH monitoring to ensure strengthened health systems and accurate reporting in the KHIS.
• Ensure timely analysis of monitoring data and dissemination to key stakeholders for management decision making.
• Support the implementation of processes to ensure quality of existing project data, and information collection.
• Ensure the project is compliant to the Humanitarian accountability requirements.
• Ensure Project alignment to the donor requirements and support office evaluation protocols and methodological tools.

Advocacy, Engagement, Networking & Partnerships & Resource Acquisition

• Represent WVK in nutrition stakeholder meetings county and/or sub-county levels.
• Participate in advocacy activities to ensure resource allocation to nutrition by county governments.
• Engaging with MoH at County & Sub-County level to influence resource allocation nutrition
• Identify potential areas for fundraising   and provide information to inform fund raising initiatives for health and nutrition, education, gender, child protection and disability at all levels
• Identify potential areas for fundraising   and provide information to inform fund raising initiatives for health and nutrition, education, gender, child protection and disability at all levels

Enhanced Empowerment, Documentation & Capacity Development 

• Ensure capacity Building of government officers, community members and CBOs to enable them effectively manage and sustain Health and Nutrition interventions.
• Conduct training and sensitization of health facility staff and Community Health Promoters on BFCI, MIYCN, IMAM, Family and micronutrients supplementation.
• Support the Sub-County and County nutrition officers to conduct community Training and follow ups for community units.
• Ensure continuous learning and documentation of lessons learnt and best practices for program design, monitoring and evaluation frameworks related to emergency response.
• Coordinate the sharing of learning related to MEAL practices across offices and provide support when internal/external reviews, evaluations, and lessons learned exercises should be employed.
• Support the development of project case studies, human interest stories, documentaries and other related materials.
• In collaboration with M&E officers document lessons learnt and reports (printed, visual) and published for sharing with the donor and other partners and proactively share information and learning with internal and external stakeholders.

Others

• Attend and participate/ lead in daily devotions and weekly Chapel services.
• Any other duties assigned by the supervisor

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

• Must have a minimum of a Minimum of Bachelor degree in Nutrition, or the equivalent from a recognized University
• At least three years working experience of which two should be in maternal infant and young child nutrition and Nutrition Sensitive interventions.
• Good understanding of Ministry of health systems, Nutrition programming models, standards and guidelines, Ministries of Health structures at county and national levels
• Familiarity of national Health and Nutrition policy and advocacy instruments and structures
• First-hand experience in Health and Nutrition community resilience programming
• Significant experience working with an NGO environment, community and people’s groups, state institutions etc.
• Familiarity with gender inclusion in community interventions. Good analytical skills with appropriate attention to detail
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills.
• High professional ethics and integrity
• Good Empirical knowledge of humanitarian codes, principles and practice;
• Computer literacy in MS office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
• Excellent team player with ability to work under minimum supervision
• Experience working in multicultural, multi-location, values driven teams;
• Experience in working on donor funded programs 
• Good understanding of Nutrition programming in emergency and developmental contexts