Nutrition Senior Officer - Akkar

The Nutrition Senior Officer will support the health program in the implementation and supervision of the nutrition component, ensuring that the related activities of the program are delivered properly, providing quality care to all beneficiaries. 

Day-to-day activities

• Manage nutrition activities and staff (such as IYCF activities, malnutrition screening, breastfeeding counseling, IYCF counselor).
• Provide IYCF technical support to concerned staff.
• Ensure that concerned staff understand and implement recommendations and guidelines when assessing the mother-child pair and advise the best feeding options and follow-up as appropriate.
• Facilitate the development and scheduling of outreach activities related to the nutrition component.
• Prepare field visit plans and supervision checklists.
• Facilitate cross sectoral programming, particularly to promote communication and referral between health program and partners, IYCF, Early childhood development program.
• Facilitate the Focus group discussions with caregivers, mother/father, and pregnant and lactating women to identify specific barriers, opportunities and communications related to IYCF practices and knowledge.
• Develop tools to assess the knowledge of beneficiaries before and after services as per need.
• Contribute to the development of awareness sessions content and messages for adolescents, children, and caregivers according to the needs.
• Contribute to the development of education materials on breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices.
  

Capacity building and Training

• Monitor the education and awareness sessions conducted by the outreach workers.
• Conduct orientations and training to build the capacity of IRC and partners staff and volunteers, for key messages on IYCF, danger signs, screening, referral and follow-up of clients.

Referral and Coordination

• Oversee the referral of children and mothers for intensive nutritional/medical care as required.
• Coordinate with other humanitarian actors, nutrition Sector/UNICEF/MoPH as appropriate to maximize collaboration and ensure proper coordination and delivery of services.
  

Reporting

• Ensure that the outreach workers and staff are maintaining records of mothers and children attending education sessions, receiving skilled assessment and support.
• Submit monthly reporting of activities to the Health Manager.
• Document case studies regularly and share with team members.