Project Officer - Nutrition at World Vision in Lodwar

Job description

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories! Employee Contract Type: Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term) Job Description: To implement and monitor nutrition activities in emergency programs. He/she will be responsible for implementing Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition, Maternal infant and young child nutrition, Positive Hearth Deviance and other approaches which include Baby Friendly community initiatives, Family MUAC, IMAM Surge and capacity building of health workers, community health promoters and community leaders. He/she will be responsible to ensure quality program implementation in line with the planned budget; monitor program effectiveness and support surveys and assessments. Work in close collaboration with and active involvement of the county and sub county health officials, health staff of the target health facilities and the communities. Please Note: World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization with a mission centred on following Jesus Christ in service to the world´s most vulnerable children. Therefore, in all locations to the fullest extent legally permissible, the successful applicant will affirm our core documents, observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, serve at a high level of professional ethics, and strive to act in accordance with cultural sensitivities. Furthermore, regular attendance with team and office devotions, chapel, and prayer gatherings are expected in line with policies in the World Vision host location and its departments. Job 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 nutrition and livelihoods projects. Provide technical support to the Ministry of Health staff to be able to implement PD Hearth, 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, analyse 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