International Medical Corps (IMC), Jordan Hiring for Nutrition Officer FSR 387 at Al Zaatari, Jordan Full Time

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Job Title: Nutrition Officer FSR 387

Location: Zaatari Camp

BACKGROUND

International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

Job Summary:

The nutrition officer will work alongside the senior nutrition officer to ensure that Nutrition Program (IYCF Program and SBCC programs) operate effectively and efficiently to deliver optimal quality care to infants and children following up within nutrition program, girls and boys under the age of 5 and pregnant & lactating women.

The nutrition officer will report to the senior nutrition officer (SNO) to accomplish the following tasks:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation.

• Overall responsibility for the day-to-day administration of project activities and staff (IYCF activities in nutrition clinics, SBCC activities, and nutrition staff)
• Provide technical guidance on IYCF to support staff (nutrition team, healthcare team, community health team, child protection, MH and other humanitarian actors as necessary to promote consistent good practice
• Ensure all staff understand and implement program guidelines used for assessing the mother-child pair, advising the best feeding option and following up as appropriate;
• Ensure that all staff understand and implement IYCF program guidelines when assessing the mother-child pair and advise the best feeding options and follow-up as appropriate.
• Support in Assessing infants for infant danger signs, growth, and feeding; especially infants nutritionally at risk, to be closely followed up and ensure timely referral at any time a sign of risk is identified,
• Ensure appropriate and consistent education messaging to mothers and other care takers at all programming contact points and in the community.
• Ensure comprehensive health checks and treatment according to the agreed protocols
• To monitor infant milk formula prescription, following infant milk formula SOPs and BMS code.  
• Review the forms completed by staff to ensure completion, accuracy and coherence
• Facilitate the development and scheduling of outreach activities (e.g. for IYCF Outreach Workers/volunteers);
• Facilitate cross-sectoral programming, particularly to promote excellent communication and referral between IYCF, CMAM, and SBCC programming.
• Ensure adequate availability of all medical and food supplies for each distribution, input in to creation and maintenance of a monthly distribution plan and ensure stock is pre-positioned as planned with SNO, pharmacists and logistics team
• Ensure that the community nutrition volunteers provide effective follow up of all cases – particularly: ensure the prompt tracing of children who are absent from the program
• Ensure that specific children to be followed up as required (new born infants, infants not gaining enough weight, pre-term infants, infants with low-birth-weight, infants with identified or potential special health conditions, infants at risk of becoming malnourished, malnourished infants and young children, infant-mother with social problems etc.)
• Ensure appropriate and consistent education messaging to mothers and other care takers at all programming contact points (e.g. nutrition clinics, RH clinics, pediatricians, GPs, delivery units, post-maternity ward) and in the community
• Conduct interviews for incentive-based volunteers (IBVs) and tackle hiring process.
• Train IBVs on best practices for IYCF messaging and SBCC messaging.
• Conduct routine performance evaluation and build the capacity of volunteers (IBVs) to ensure consistent quality messaging and programming.
• Contribute in monitoring of the IYCF and SBCC activities, support group sessions, counselling sessions, SBCC sessions.
• Contribute to the development of contextually appropriate IEC materials for local IYCF assessments
• Develop training material and Information, education, and communication (IEC) materials on IYCF messages.
• Develop existing program forms or create additional ones (e.g.: IBV performance evaluation, IYCF, MUAC screening, tally sheets, distribution sheets, assessment, and counselling … etc.) as needed
• Support nutrition trainers in identifying mothers to lead Mother Support Groups (MSGs) and support them in successful leading of groups, to promote optimal IYCF practices
• Support in identifying SBCC champions, develop their scope of work, support capacity building and support in monitoring of their activities.
• Support in identifying and reporting of success stories and beneficiaries’ stories, who were supported with the IYCF and SBCC interventions.
• Assist in procurement planning and following up procurement requisitions with the assigned procurement officer to ensure the timely and receipt of items per requirements.
• Raise procurement requisitions (PRs) regularly & timely to ensure that program supplies are available all the time.
• Conducting community training sessions as needed
• Assess training needs and implement ongoing didactic and on-job training activities targeting the nutrition volunteers and nutrition counsellors’ team to build their capacity and enhance program services and practices, especially newly hires.
• Support the weekly and monthly IYCF, and SBCC reporting and timely submission of compiled IYCF, and SBCC reporting;
• Report and track progress on the follow up of infants and children with special cases, follow-up on their medical nutrition care plans;
• Liaise with IMC logistics to ensure adequate and timely provision of standardized anthropometric tools and other nutrition equipment; and
• Liaise with Health, Protection, Mental Health, Disability Support and WASH Projects in the camp to meet potential crosscutting needs; and
• Support coordinated donor/IMC visits to integrated IYCF and SBCC services in both camps.
• Cover nutrition clinics in case of absence of nutrition staff
• Monthly tracking records of IYCF activities, and SBCC activities.
• Periodic relevant statistical reports and data required by nutrition officer and the senior nutrition officer (SNO); and
• Comprehensive periodic and ad hoc reports to inform the supervisors and IMC Field Manager about any security incidents or other related issues.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• Honesty, openness, and transparency
• Dependability, and commitment.
• Emotional maturity and ability to deal with matters of strict confidentiality;
• Proven capacity of teamwork with ability to maintain positive relationships with colleagues,
• Approachable, supportive, and acquire active listening skills
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff;
• Highly organized and has excellent communications, public relations, supervisory, personnel management skills
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathize with all beneficiaries, and their caregivers;
• Prioritization, planning, follow-up and multitasking skills.
• Demonstrable ability at report writing and good written, verbal, & electronic communication skills required
• Capacity to keep accurate records of activities and report in a timely manner;
• Ability to make a work plan and direct work independently
• Ability to identify problems immediately and initiate improvements if needed with senior management
• Good computing skills in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel & PowerPoint is required.
• Experience working in humanitarian settings

Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and not necessarily all inclusive.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum a BSc degree in Nutrition, Dietetics, or related fields
• Minimum experience of two years in clinical nutrition and nutrition counselling
• Previous experience in IYCF programming, or MIYCN,
• Minimum one year of experience in a similar role.
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff;
• Very Good command of spoken and written English

Child Safeguarding

International Medical Corps is committed to child safeguarding and expects all employees to strictly adhere to the values and principles of the International Medical Corps Child Safeguarding Policy.

Code of Conduct

It is our shared responsibility and obligation to prevent matters involving Sexual Exploitation & Abuse, trafficking in Persons, Child Safeguarding and any suggested violation to our Code of Conduct, which may involve Conflicts of Interest, Fraud, Corruption or Harassment.  If you see, hear or are made aware of any suggested activities then you have an obligation to report.

Compliance & Ethics

Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps’ and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.  Conducts work with the highest level of integrity. Communicates these values to staff and to partners and requires them to adhere to these values.

Equal Opportunities

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or status as a veteran.

This job description is subject to periodic review and adjustment in order to achieve International Medical Corps goals in Jordan, and any changes to the job description will be discussed and agreed

“I hereby certify that all the information provided through the application and CV are accurate and the supportive documents are available upon request, any false information provided will cause cancelation of the application and applicant will be subject to legal action”.

Our screening process will be on a rolling basis, once a candidate is selected the announcement will be closed.