Nutrition Officer, Hoima Baylor

Implement food and nutrition security activities in the region; support mentorship of health workers in nutritional assessment, treatment of moderately or severely malnourished children, manage the supply chain management of nutritional supplies and follow-up of malnourished clients.

Overall Responsibilities
• Develop and implement annual and quarterly work plans and budgets and ensure their consolidation into the overall cluster project Plans and budgets.
• Build the capacity of project implementing teams on nutrition care and support (in terms of training, mentorship and coaching).
• Develop procurement plans, provide timely requisitions and offer technical input in evaluation of nutrition related bids.
• Manage the delivery of Therapeutic/supplementary feeding and other nutrition services to the health facilities, monitor client progress and outcomes and provide nutrition/diet related guidance to the cluster and health facility teams.
• Ensure that clients are provided with routine nutrition education and individual counseling.
• Maintain an updated nutrition database and prepare monthly and quarterly reports.
• Ensure that clients in nutrition care are followed-up at the community to ensure adherence to therapeutic/supplementary feeding and support linkage of clients to other livelihood /economic support activities.
• Carry out nutrition oriented research basing on the identified nutrition research gaps and document and disseminate nutrition best practices.
• Mentor and appraise Linkage facilitators, peer mothers and case management officers on nutrition services.
• Monitor the Identification, documentation and referral of identified ‘Sexual and gender based violence‐ SGBV ’victims and other psychosocial problems in the face of HIV/AIDS in line with Baylor‐Uganda objectives for HIV & Gender main streaming.

Required Qualification, Experience and Competencies:
• Masters in Nutrition or related field is an added advantage
• 3 Years of relevant working experience with the knowledge of Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition, IYCF, NACS mostly in HIV settings), conducting both didactic and on-job trainings, Project planning especially work plan development and budgeting, Knowledge of national guidelines and protocols for IMAM, and good understanding of current IYCF guidelines.
• 3 Years Relevant Experience

NOTE:
Applications should include a cover letter, CV, daytime telephone contact, three traceable professional references and certified UNEB certificates as well as certified University Transcripts
You must have at least a credit 6 in MATHEMATICS and ENGLISH at Ordinary Level (UCE). Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview. Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.