Field Medical Foundation is a non-governmental, voluntary and non-profit Foundation which is leading interested in providing health services to the citizens, and developing health service provided through proper health awareness, as well as through the establishment of training camps in different medicinal and preventive fields and provide therapeutic feeding for malnourished children .
Title: Nutritional Project Manager
Duty station: Aden with travel to the field
Duration : one year (12) months with possibility of extension Scope Of Work:
This position is to provide nutritional technical services in the outpatient therapeutic program(OTP) and support the activities of the stabilization center of the nutrition program and medical mobile team, as part of a larger primary health care intervention that includes maternal and child health and environmental health.
The nutritional manager leads FMF'S nutrition team in the running of all aspects of the therapeutic feeding program, in both the in- patient and out-patient setting.
The nutrition manager will be reporting to executive Director, Aden .
Responsibilities:
• Assess and monitor trends in the nutrition situation of children in Abyan, ALDhala and Shabwa and make technical recommendations for appropriate interventions and ensure high quality of CMAM and IYCF services.
• At the field level, provide possible analysis to the nutritional situation and its relation to other sectors especially WASH, Health and food security.
• Jointly organize and prepare training schedule, materials and venues with E.D manager.
• Conduct specific nutrition training for nutrition, health staff and community health workers(CHWs) in CMAM &IYCF.
• Participate in design,implementation,monitoring and evaluation of nutrition activities to ensure achievement of objectives.
• Ensure that the program's activities are well running and are meeting the CMAM standards/protocols.
• Be able to assess nutrition sector's ability to respond to the nutritional needs of acutely malnourished children and make recommendations to the FMF on how to best respond to those needs.
• To report on the field CMAM activities on weekly and monthly basis, by compiling the reports using the standards format and submitting it to the executive Director to enable early forecasting for nutritional supplies.
• To be an active supervisory team member during the nutrition survey, contributing in the planning, implementation and data analysis using appropriate nutrition soft ware as well as the reporting
• To assist the Executive Director in other office tasks on request.
QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
• University degree in medicine desirable in public health or related technical field. knowledge and skills in designing and implementing appropriate and effective holistic nutrition interventions.
• Analytical skills that demonstrate an understanding of the current concepts, priorities, and issues in monitoring ,data collection and evaluation.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other departments within FMF ,health facilities and other organizations.
• Professional work experience in project administration, including data collection and analysis, ideally pertaining to nutrition program.
• Experience in EPi info and ENA for smart essential, working knowledge of other statistical packages(e.g. STATA,SPSS,etc) an advantage.IPC experience is desirable .
• Experience of capacity building, staff training and monitoring
• Strong communication skills, including excellent English and Arabic (spoken and written).
• Strong skills in reporting, including narrative writing and data analysis
• Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a high workload and multiple tasks in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines.
APPLICATION PROCESS:
For all positions, applicants should send a CV and covering letter, both in English, to Field Medical Foundation( [email protected]) with the title of the position you are applying for in the title of email.
NOTE: covering letter is required for this vacancy, please submit yours along with your C.V.
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