Nutrition Officer - Maiduguri

Job Requirements:

• Health professional (Nutrition and dietetics, MD or RN with a MPH is preferred) with strong Nutrition background.
  

• A mature person of high professional discipline and moral integrity, able to work independently and under stress as the situation may dictate.
  

Work Experience:

• At least 3 years’ experience in managing and implementing Nutrition programs.
  

• Able to lead a team and experience in staff management.
  

• Experience in outbreak response interventions
  

• Ability to work with displaced communities with diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
  

• Experience in donor report writing and proposal development
  

• Have experience in general management including financial and budget management, HR and logistics management
  

Nutrition program management:

• Support planning and implementing of the project activities and outputs at the field level to ensure the project achieves its objective of improving access to quality Nutrition services
  

• The Nutrition Capacity Building Officer will take lead in coordinating with LGA authorities reviewing all the technical reports from the Implementing Partners which authorities assigned to them.
  

• Track the performance of the project activities and targets against the expected results and advise on implementation process to ensure the project is progressing towards attaining its targets in each LGA.
  

• Conduct periodic analysis of progress of the project at the LGA level and promote learning and sharing of best practices and lessons learnt through documentation
  

• Identifying program gaps in the supported OTP services with immediate solution for further necessary steps to address those gap.
  

Staff Performance Management, Learning & Development:

• Required for all positions with supervisory responsibility, if special considerations are needed (e.g. remote management), make this additive to the base language here.
  

• Hire, supervise, and build the capacity of team members in relevant technical and management competencies.
  

• Develop and implement remote management capacity building approaches to build the strengths of the team in Nigeria.
  

• Coach, train, supervise and mentor direct-report staff, including communicating clear expectations, setting annual performance objectives, providing regular and timely positive and constructive performance feedback, and providing documented semi-annual performance reviews.
  

Monitoring Nutrition program implementation:

• Monitor project implementation and provide on spot support to field teams and propose modifications as necessary;
  

• Ensure regular health program data analysis and review, take follow up action on project implementation and prepare relevant action reports;
  

• Supervise and provide technical oversight in the interpretation of data for improved programming and implementation;
  

• Monitor and promote integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of Nutrition program at the community level.
  

Coordination & Representation

• Represent the program to Local government representatives, , partner agencies, etc. as required;
  

• In coordination with the Nutrition Manager actively develop and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders with government actors, international and local NGOs, and other relevant actors;
  

• Attend all relevant meetings in relation to the Nutrition program as may be required and feed in the IRC priorities during meetings;
  

• Facilitate field visits for internal and external stakeholders, when required.