Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition & Dietetics, Public Health Nutrition, Community Nutrition, from a recognised institution.
  
• Minimum 3 years’ experience implementing community nutrition programs with exposure to CMAM, MIYCN, IMAM surge or related interventions.
  

Skills and Competencies

• Knowledge of CMAM, nutrition screening, assessment methods and referral pathways.
  
• Experience in behaviour change communication strategies.
  
• Proficient in data collection, reporting and Microsoft Office applications.
  
• Strong communication, planning and collaboration skills.
  
• Ability to work in hardship and field conditions.
  

Program Implementation

• Participate in conducting routine community and facility-based nutrition screening for children under five and pregnant and lactating women following approved CMAM guidelines.
  
• Support enrolment and admit eligible cases to the community treatment program, provide nutrition commodities, follow-up on progress of treatment, discharge from the program and track cases in collaboration with community health volunteers and MOH health staff.
  
• Identify malnutrition cases with medical complications and ensure timely referral to stabilisation centres, followed by admission into the OTP program upon stabilization.
  
• Ability to implement and abide by the approved community treatment protocol
  

Community Mobilisation & Capacity Building

• Support, mentor, and mobilize community health volunteers and outreach workers to improve screening, management, referral, and follow-up of cases.
  
• Provide on-the-job training and coaching to volunteers on CMAM and MIYCN best practices.
  

Monitoring & Reporting

• Collect, compile and submit weekly, monthly and ad-hoc program data and activity reports to the Nutrition Officer in line with donor and organisational standards.
  
• Support accurate data entry and quality assurance of program monitoring tools.
  
• Assist in the preparation of case studies, success stories and lessons learned.
  

Coordination

• Participate in stakeholder meetings at the community and sub-county level as required by the supervisor.
  
• Liaise with the health facility teams, WASH and protection counterparts to support integrated management and referral pathways.
  

Logistics Support

• Track basic nutrition commodities and equipment at field sites and report stock levels to the Nutrition Officer.
  

Other Duties

• Perform additional tasks as assigned by the supervisor.