Community Nutrition Supervisor

Job Purpose:

The Community Nutrition Supervisor coordinates all nutrition community outreach activities in a designated coverage area, including strategic planning, liaising with community leaders and authorities, and overseeing community groups. The Community Nutrition Supervisor is responsible for the facilitation of networking between individuals and communities to recognize problems, identify solutions, and implement project activities related to the identified solutions. The Community Nutrition Supervisor creates demand for nutrition services among target community members as well as leading in continuous community sensitization and accountability. Other duties include delivering trainings, producing reports, home visits, tracking of defaulters, relapses, non-response, nutrition counselling or any other roles as may be assigned by the line managers with utmost quality.

Responsibilities:

• Mobilizing the Community Outreach teams to work with the target community to ensure that the project activities are delivered with maximum efficiency and professionalism.

• Organizing the logistical arrangements for community level meetings with support from other project staff

• Ensuring that the targeted community (under five, adolescent girls and pregnant and lactating women) are linked to the nutrition centre for services e.g., Counselling, diagnosis, treatment.

• Facilitating effective screening, listing and mobilization of the targeted community towards achieving objective

• Facilitating effective screening at the community level among the targeted population

• Ensuring that volunteers are adequately trained and are regularly supporting screening and refer the SAM, MAM and at-risk children.

• Establish, train, and support Mother to Mother Support Groups (MtMSGs) and adolescent girl support groups.

• Engaging the community members and motivate them to bring positive changes with the minimum resources towards achieving objective.

• Ensuring that the nutrition mobilization plan is developed jointly with the team and delivered timely and effectively to ensure improvement in the nutrition status of the project participants beyond project end.

• Regularly meet with, inform, and sensitize the local authorities, community leaders and members to ensure good understanding of the nutrition program. Anticipate possible community concerns and work proactively to address them.

• Strategize and implement methods to ensure complete coverage of eligible beneficiaries within the assigned nutrition site catchment area.

• Support the distribution of IFA to adolescent girls in the community, following CMAM protocols.

• Support surveys and assessments in the assigned nutrition site catchment area

• Ensure high quality standards for measurement and other technical tasks carried out by Community Nutrition Volunteers, through assessment, training, and supportive supervision.

• Document internal and external monitoring findings, prepare action plan and share with Nutrition Supervisor, DPM and PM and execute that plan as per instruction.

• Collaborate with MEAL team to ensure timely compiling statistical data and draft appropriate reports on activities including producing monthly reports and end of program evaluation report.

• Ensure documentations of lessons learnt and best practices within the implementation of the INI program.

• Identify capacity gaps among component staffs/volunteers, prepare on the job capacity building and supportive supervision plan and provide initial and ongoing training to Community Nutrition Volunteers

• Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and provide guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.

• Attend CIC and other field level meetings as requested by the line managers.

• Liaise with other partners providing nutrition and health activities in the nutrition site catchment area for good coordination of outreach activities.

Skill and Competencies

Educational Requirements

• Minimum BSc/BS in Nutrition and Food Science from any reputed University

 Experience Requirements

• Minimum 1 to 2 Years working Experience in Same or Similar Position in NGOs/INGOs and in the area of community mobilization with a bias in CMAM, MIYCN and C-MAMI.

• Technical knowledge on Community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programming

• Pro- active with an ability to think analytically & results oriented.

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Please note that application via any other method will not be considered.

“FRIENDSHIP is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults, and employees, Donors, visiting Doctors, visiting Journalists, visitors, beneficiaries including communities where we work and volunteers/interns. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with, has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure fully include background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding. 

FRIENDSHIP is an equal opportunity employer and will do everything possible to ensure that those who are suitable to work within our values and beliefs are recruited to work for us. Any personal persuasion will result in a disqualification of candidature”.

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