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Field Nutritionist (Several Positions) Job at IsraAID
IsraAID
Job Description
IsraAID is seeking Field Nutritionists to guide and support the implementation of integrated community-based management of acute malnutrition and nutrition surveillance. The role involves implementing preventive nutrition interventions, promoting maternal and infant nutrition, and coordinating community-based strategies in refugee settlements in Uganda.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Participate in conducting routine community and facility-based nutrition screening for children under five and pregnant and lactating women following approved CMAM guidelines.
- Support enrolment and admit eligible cases to the community treatment program, provide nutrition commodities, follow-up on progress of treatment, discharge from the program and track cases in collaboration with community health volunteers and MOH health staff.
- Identify malnutrition cases with medical complications and ensure timely referral to stabilisation centres, followed by admission into the OTP program upon stabilization.
- Ability to implement and abide by the approved community treatment protocol
- support facility-based and outreach management of acute malnutrition (OTP/SFP).
- Promote MIYCN practices, including breastfeeding counselling and complementary feeding messages in community settings.
- Support delivery of behavior change communication on key nutrition and health practices.
- Ensure accurate case documentation, including admission dates, treatment provided, quantities of nutrition commodities used, follow-up timelines, and any complications observed during treatment.
- Support, mentor, and mobilize community health volunteers and outreach workers to improve screening, management, referral, and follow-up of cases.
- Provide on-the-job training and coaching to volunteers on CMAM and MIYCN best practices.
- Collect, compile and submit weekly, monthly and ad-hoc program data and activity reports to the Nutrition Officer in line with donor and organisational standards.
- Support accurate data entry and quality assurance of program monitoring tools.
- Assist in the preparation of case studies, success stories and lessons learned.
- Participate in stakeholder meetings at the community and sub-county level as required by the supervisor.
- Liaise with the health facility teams, WASH and protection counterparts to support integrated management and referral pathways.
- Track basic nutrition commodities and equipment at field sites and report stock levels to the Nutrition Officer.
- Perform additional tasks as assigned by the supervisor.
Qualifications, Education and Competencies
See all details of the qualifications, competencies and education for this role under the "How to Apply" section below.
Apply here: https://israaid.bamboohr.com/careers/326
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