Under the supervision of FSL and Nutrition Supervisor, the Community Nutrition Officer (CNO) is responsible for planning, implementing and monitoring nutrition activities, with a particular focus on awareness sessions about breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and prevention of malnutrition, together with individual counselling and support for those with difficulties and special vulnerabilities, while ensuring proper coordination and collaboration with municipalities, other authorities, beneficiaries and related Action Against Hunger departments. The CNO will work hand in hand with IYCF specialists and community mobilizers to achieve the objectives of the project.
Objective 1: Technical planning, supervision and monitoring of the field activities (65%)**
- Under the supervision of the FSL and Nutrition supervisor, the Community Nutrition Officer (CNO) will be responsible of assessing on a regular basis IYCF, nutrition and care practices amongst the targeted communities in the areas of interventions.
- Conduct and engage in nutrition and health education to ensure the promotion of positive health care- seeking behaviors, including maternal and child health
- Offer individual counselling on nutrition for women and married adolescents to complement the support provided by the IYCF specialist
- Follow- up the cases of malnutrition through collaboration with the nearest Primary Health Care Centers (PHCCs) in the targeted areas
- Provide caregivers of children between 6-59 months with multiple micronutrients powder (MNPs) to boost their capacity of the immune system
- Support pregnant women and caregivers of children under two years with nutrition education and family Mid-Upper-Arm Circumference (MUAC) training
- Identify and train community mobilizers to act as IYCF champions at their communities and extensions for the program and support the mobilizers to conduct their own awareness at the community level
- Manage, support, guide and develop the capacity with the IYCF specialist in assessing the challenges of the caregivers, progress of their work, follow up on their reporting, timely work management for sessions and follow ups, and managing the referrals to the PHCCs
- Determine the optimal and sub-optimal practices needing improvement*.*
- Support in conducting assessments and surveys throughout the project (rapid assessments, pre/post tests, baseline/end line, vulnerability assessments, etc.) as needed
- Conduct and follow up on referrals requested by the caregivers on nutrition, health, WASH, mental health, food security, protection, etc.
Objective 2: Data collection and reporting (15%)
- Report the challenges faced through the implementation process and provide possible solutions relevant to the context and culture as well as best practices and lessons learned
- File, document, and report work progress to the FSL and Nutrition Supervisor
- Ensure all activities are accurately documented and tracked
Objective 3: Stakeholder coordination (10%)
- Coordinate with local partners (NGOs and PHCCs) for better referrals pathway
- Support in building the relations between Action Against Hunger, authorities, municipalities, and communities.
Objective 4: Support humanitarian activities of Action Against Hunger (10%)
- Support the emergency interventions of the organization as per the employee’s abilities.
- Support any activity that helps reaching our humanitarian goals, as per the employee’s abilities.
- Promote the gender equality within the humanitarian work
Objective 5: Security
- Respect the security rules specified in the mission and base security plan, see to it that the team under his/her responsibility complies with the security plan and perform the security management tasks that can be assigned in its protocols.
- Communicate to the security managers of the working location any security related information or noncompliance with the security plan
Training/ Education:
Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics or relevant degree.
Technical specific knowledge:
- Knowledge about infant and young child feeding, child growth, nutrition during the life cycle, acute malnutrition, chronic undernutrition, child development and micronutrient deficiencies.
- Additional knowledge and abilities about the alignment of nutrition with maternal and child health, and food security and livelihoods programs
Previous experience:
- 1-2 years of experience working in community nutrition.
- Experience in humanitarian and development organizations is desirable.
Humanitarian sector knowledge:
Desirable
Action Against Hunger knowledge:
Desirable, not compulsory
Languages:
- Native Arabic (compulsory)
- Very good English (compulsory)
IT and specific systems:
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office suite
- Good knowledge of Kobo Collect/ODK
Action Against Hunger – Lebanon seeks to promote gender equality and is committed to empowering women to participate effectively in their communities, we strongly encourage women to apply.
We Strongly encourage people with disabilities to apply.
ACF has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, and abuse (SEA)
How to apply
Eligible candidates are invited to apply the earliest possible as we are screening applications on a rolling basis.
Only the applications received through our website will be taken into consideration.