Project Summary: The objective of our project is to provide primary and secondary level of health care to the Refugees in Dagahaley refugee camp. MSF provides a full package of medical care through 2 primary health care units and 1 hospital (100 beds) with 24 hour emergency and Operating Theatre.
Health services include curative, preventative, nutritional activities and emergency preparedness and intervention with partners.
Reporting: The selected candidate will be reporting to the Project Medical Referent
Start date: Immediately
Package: Attractive salary package on offer with additional benefits including comprehensive health cover.
Contract duration: 12 months fixed term contract with possibility of extension based on performance (includes 3 month probationary period)
Roles for the Nutrition Supervisor Job
- Responsible for management of day to day operations and efficient coordination of nutrition program activities in MSF CH catchment area.
- Provide technical guidance in the planning and implementation of the supplementary and therapeutic feeding programmes.
- Lead and supervise team of staff providing nutrition support services in the hospital based therapeutic feeding centres and the outreach based supplementary feeding centres
- Manage the supply chain of food and nutrition related commodities to the health facilities in the MSF CH operations catchment area.
- Oversee the distribution of supplementary food provided by WFP at health posts
- Prepare regular food requests and Cooperating Partner Distribution (CPD) reports on consumption, whilst ensuring compliance with WFP guidelines.
- Ensure staff training and capacity building (formal and informal) under the supervision of the hierarchical referent.
- Manage efficiently the nutritional program supplies and medical equipment: orders, follow-up of the stock, storage conditions, inventories, follow-up of expired supplies and their destruction.
- Assure coordination and representation of MSF in nutritional sector inter agency activities and coordination meetings with other implementing partners such as UNHCR, World Food Programme and CARE International
- Prepare monthly performance indicator reports on the nutrition sector, whilst ensuring continuous monitoring of trends in admissions to guide programme and stakeholder decisions for timely interventions on malnutrition
- Participate actively in the monitoring and the reporting of nutritional program activities and propose analysis of these statistics, its quality and its functioning, storage conditions, doing follow-up of expired drugs, etc.)
Nutrition Supervisor Job Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Nutrition. Must be registered and licensed by KNDI.
- Desirable previous clinical supervision experience of at least one year, Essential, 2 years of relevant working experience
- English and Local language essential
- Desirable computer literacy
- Competencies Results, teamwork, commitment, flexibility, service.
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