Project Officer – Nutrition at World Vision Kenya

Job Description

World Vision is an international Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation working in almost countries world-wide to create lasting change in the lives of children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.

Key Responsibilities:

Programmatic and technical Implementation for nutrition projects

Ensure all malnourished children, pregnant and lactating women are identified, admitted and discharged from IMAM programs as per national Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) guidelines Support the communities to identify Nutrition gaps and develop community led solutions during implementation of NICHE project Provide technical support to the Ministry of Health staff to be able to implement BFCI, IMAM Surge and Family MUAC models at both County and Sub County level. Work closely with community Health promoters to mobilize communities to participate in nutrition project interventions Strengthening of community structures to ensure they receive appropriate health and nutrition services. Support Community health promoters to conduct household nutrition counselling for project beneficiaries at community level. Ensure effective integration of gender, child protection, disability, Christian commitment and advocacy into nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions. Integration of nutrition into livelihood interventions to ensure food security at household level. In liaison with project accountant ensure monthly tracking of project expenditure and manage work plans and budgets.

Quality assurance for programmatic Designs, Assessments, Monitoring and Evaluation processes

Develop quality reports: weekly situation reports, monthly reports and quarterly reports as per WV and/donor(s) reporting guidelines In liaison with other project partners and MoH develop monitoring plan, analyze nutrition information from health information system and other sources to understand trends for timely decision making Document success stories, and best practices to demonstrate the impact created by WVK from the project implementation Monitor project implementation levels and report progress, impact and best practices. Work with M&E officer to develop ToRs for various activities that require external support and identify specific data requirements. Support MOH monitoring to ensure strengthened health systems and accurate reporting in the KHIS. Ensure timely analysis of monitoring data and dissemination to key stakeholders for management decision making. Support the implementation of processes to ensure quality of existing project data, and information collection. Ensure the project is compliant to the Humanitarian accountability requirements. Ensure Project alignment to the donor requirements and support office evaluation protocols and methodological tools.

Advocacy, Engagement, Networking & Partnerships & Resource Acquisition

Represent WVK in nutrition stakeholder meetings county and/or sub-county levels. Participate in advocacy activities to ensure resource allocation to nutrition by county governments. Engaging with MoH at County & Sub-County level to influence resource allocation nutrition Identify potential areas for fundraising and provide information to inform fund raising initiatives for health and nutrition, education, gender, child protection and disability at all levels Identify potential areas for fundraising and provide information to inform fund raising initiatives for health and nutrition, education, gender, child protection and disability at all levels

Enhanced Empowerment, Documentation & Capacity Development 

Ensure capacity Building of government officers, community members and CBOs to enable them effectively manage and sustain Health and Nutrition interventions. Conduct training and sensitization of health facility staff and Community Health Promoters on BFCI, MIYCN, IMAM, Family and micronutrients supplementation. Support the Sub-County and County nutrition officers to conduct community Training and follow ups for community units. Ensure continuous learning and documentation of lessons learnt and best practices for program design, monitoring and evaluation frameworks related to emergency response. Coordinate the sharing of learning related to MEAL practices across offices and provide support when internal/external reviews, evaluations, and lessons learned exercises should be employed. Support the development of project case studies, human interest stories, documentaries and other related materials. In collaboration with M&E officers document lessons learnt and reports (printed, visual) and published for sharing with the donor and other partners and proactively share information and learning with internal and external stakeholders.

Others

Attend and participate/ lead in daily devotions and weekly Chapel services. Any other duties assigned by the supervisor

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Must have a minimum of a Minimum of Bachelor degree in Nutrition, or the equivalent from a recognized University At least three years working experience of which two should be in maternal infant and young child nutrition and Nutrition Sensitive interventions. Good understanding of Ministry of health systems, Nutrition programming models, standards and guidelines, Ministries of Health structures at county and national levels Familiarity of national Health and Nutrition policy and advocacy instruments and structures First-hand experience in Health and Nutrition community resilience programming Significant experience working with an NGO environment, community and people’s groups, state institutions etc. Familiarity with gender inclusion in community interventions. Good analytical skills with appropriate attention to detail Strong communication and interpersonal skills Excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills. High professional ethics and integrity Good Empirical knowledge of humanitarian codes, principles and practice; Computer literacy in MS office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; Excellent team player with ability to work under minimum supervision Experience working in multicultural, multi-location, values driven teams; Experience in working on donor funded programs Good understanding of Nutrition programming in emergency and developmental contexts