Nutrition Officer – Damboa

JOB SUMMARY

Médecins du Monde seeks a Nutrition Officer to support quality nutrition programming at clinic and community levels, including services for adolescents and adolescent mothers. Contract duration is subject to funding availability.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Plan, implement and monitor nutrition activities in coordination with state and LGA health authorities and programme teams.
• Develop and use technical resources, activity plans, workplans and budgets for assigned nutrition interventions.
• Ensure services are culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive, safe and accessible to vulnerable groups.
• Support follow-up of beneficiaries and monitoring of service quality, coverage and outcomes.
• Maintain clear information flow between clinic, community, technical and management teams.
• Assess staff and community-mobiliser learning needs and prepare practical capacity-development plans.
• Develop or adapt training materials and facilitate training, coaching and supportive supervision for health workers, community mobilisers and project staff.
• Verify nutrition data, maintain complete programme records and contribute to routine, donor and internal reporting.
• Work with monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning colleagues to strengthen indicators, data quality, feedback and learning.
• Identify implementation gaps and recommend corrective actions based on field evidence.
• Represent the programme in relevant technical and coordination forums when delegated.
• Build constructive working relationships with government counterparts, facilities, community structures and partner organisations.
• Follow organisational policies, nutrition standards, safeguarding rules, confidentiality requirements and security procedures.

QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES

• Relevant degree or professional qualification accepted by the employer for nutrition, health or a related field.
• Practical experience implementing and monitoring nutrition or public-health programmes.
• Capacity to train and support frontline workers and community actors.
• Strong planning, reporting, communication and teamwork skills.
• Ability to work respectfully with diverse communities and under changing humanitarian conditions.

APPLICATION CONDITIONS

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and the vacancy may close before the stated deadline. Apply by email to recruitment.nigeria@medecinsdumonde.net, clearly stating the position and location. Médecins du Monde does not request bribes, recruitment fees, gifts or favours.