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| Nutrition Technical office | |||
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| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Kabul, |
| Categories | Program, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2021-04-01 | Close Date | 2021-04-10 |
| Vacancy No | OPHCD-029-21 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | One Year - Extendable |
| Education | University Degree | Experience | 3 years |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | As per organization salary scale |
About Company
About OPHCD: Organization for Promotion of Health & Community Development (OPHCD) is a nonprofit, non-political, impartial and independent organization registered with the NGOs Department of the Ministry of Economy of the Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan with the registration No 4160. The organization established to serve the community and advocate for better coordinating and directing the available resources and activities for provision of quality services to the communities with an equitable manner.
Job Description
- The Nutrition Technical officer provides high quality technical assistance and support to technical staff and Health Facilities staff; he/she will work to increase health facility staff capacity to deliver appropriate services to improve women and children nutritional status.
- Regular supervision of health facility staff (midwives, nurses and head of health facilities) to ensure proper delivery of nutritional services (prevention, assessment, diagnosis and treatment).
- Overall management of SAM, MAM, IYCF, Iron and micronutrient distribution, TSFP and IMAM in the HFs Ensure the staff level of knowledge and identify their needs for training.
- Follow up of breast feeding and breast-feeding substitutes in HFs Follow up of Growth/Monitoring of all children and screening of mother’s nutritional status coming to HFs and HPs.
- Provide the Health Facility Staff with high quality technical support and on-job training in field of nutrition and health.
- Conduct training in field of Nutrition and Health for Health facilities staff and if required for CHS& CHWs Inspire the medical staff in daily malnutrition screening and proper nutritional consultation in health facilities.
- Help the technical team in setting the target indicators for nutritional/health up to the end of project.
- Evaluate progress towards indicators and find the gap against progress.
- Ensure timely and appropriately reporting by Health facilities. Ensure transfer of updated policies and guidelines related to Nutrition to all Health Facility staff and Health Posts.
- Ensure enough equipment required for quality Nutritional service provision in HFs.
- Ensure every child under 5 is going for growth monitoring and have the Growth monitoring chart.
- Ensure every PLW is receiving IYCF consultation in HFs and HPs coordination with reproductive health officer.
- Coordinate with HMIS-Officer to ensure the data and information is collected and entered to database.
- Assist the Project manager in preparation of quarterly report by providing needed data and information.
- Participate in meeting/workshops in order to upgrade technical and managerial knowledge.
- To provide to Project Manager monthly action plans and monthly reports.
- Able to Run Nutrition Database and Reporting.
- 100% Traveling to provinces for monitoring and supporting supervision from each HFs
- Assist program line managers, supervisors in the planning and implementing of program. Contribute.
- Develop and submit project progress (weekly, monthly and quarterly) and other reports as per requirement to project donor.
- Liaise with partners (governmental and non-governmental), Participate in all coordination meeting with UN, NGOs and government agencies.
- Develop weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual project activity plan, allocate required fund for activities as pore endorsed budget, and keep track of expenses against the allocated budget.
- Lead the different sections of the project and provide technical support.
- Follow organization established policies, procedures and objectives; continuous quality improvement initiative works/ performance.
- Identify and make decision to solve immediately any problem which interferes in the delivery of services or in achieving the program objectives and provide report to his/her immediate supervisor.
- Meet all Supervisors to discuss program progress and problems on a weekly base.
- Evaluate and supervise the performance of the project staffs
- Responsible for the planning, implementing, and supervision of the project activities.
- Monitor and supervise progress of programs.
- Provide weekly, monthly and quarterly report of program activities to Donor.
Job Requirement
- University degree in Medical required.
- At least 3 years’ experience in relevant field in governmental or non-governmental organizations.
- Expertise in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint Excel and internet is required.
- Good communication skills and strong local language correspondence skill.
- Fluently English, Dari and Pashtu speaking /writing skills are required.
- Ability to write logical, clear and concise reports.
- Skills:
- Demonstrated analytical skills
- excellent communication skills in Dari, Pashto and English
- Demonstrated ability in M&E tool development and analysis
- Ability to work under difficult circumstances
- He/she works as an active member of the team.
- Excellent computer skills (word, excel, power point)
- Presentation skills
- Planning and reporting skills
- Travel to insecure areas on need basis
Submission Guideline
The interested candidates should submit their application letter with CV not more than 5 pages and with three references.
Please Mention the announced position vacancy number in email subject like (…………… Position V# …………)
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Note: only short-listed candidates will be contacted