Nutrition Supervisor at Medecins Sans Frontieres Switzerland

Project Summary: The objective of our project is to provide primary and secondary level of health care to the Refugees in Dagahaley refugee camp.  MSF provides a full package of medical care through 2 primary health care units and 1 hospital (100 beds) with 24 hour emergency and Operating Theatre.

Health services include curative, preventative, nutritional activities and emergency preparedness and intervention with partners.

Reporting: The selected candidate will be reporting to the Project Medical Referent

Start date: Immediately

Package: Attractive salary package on offer with additional benefits including comprehensive health cover.

Contract duration: 12 months fixed term contract with possibility of extension based on performance (includes 3 month probationary period)

Roles

• Responsible for management of day to day operations and efficient coordination of nutrition program activities in MSF CH catchment area.
• Provide technical guidance in the planning and implementation of the supplementary and therapeutic feeding programmes.
• Lead and supervise team of staff providing nutrition support services in the hospital based therapeutic feeding centres and the outreach based supplementary feeding centres
• Manage the supply chain of food and nutrition related commodities to the health facilities in the MSF CH operations catchment area.
• Oversee the distribution of supplementary food provided by WFP at health posts
• Prepare regular food requests and Cooperating Partner Distribution (CPD) reports on consumption, whilst ensuring compliance with WFP guidelines.
• Ensure staff training and capacity building (formal and informal) under the supervision of the hierarchical referent.
• Manage efficiently the nutritional program supplies and medical equipment: orders, follow-up of the stock, storage conditions, inventories, follow-up of expired supplies and their destruction.
• Assure coordination and representation of MSF in nutritional sector inter agency activities and coordination meetings with other implementing partners such as UNHCR, World Food Programme and CARE International
• Prepare monthly performance indicator reports on the nutrition sector, whilst ensuring continuous monitoring of trends in admissions to guide programme and stakeholder decisions for timely interventions on malnutrition
• Participate actively in the monitoring and the reporting of nutritional program activities and propose analysis of these statistics, its quality and its functioning, storage conditions, doing follow-up of expired drugs, etc.)

Job Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nutrition. Must be registered and licensed by KNDI.
• Desirable previous clinical supervision experience of at least one year, Essential, 2 years of relevant working experience
• English and Local language essential
• Desirable computer literacy
• Competencies Results, teamwork, commitment, flexibility, service.