Accountabilities:
- Schedules and organizes all nutrition related activities, its organization design and sizing as well as its associated budget in order to efficiently maintain the continuity of the nutritional healthcare at the standard quality levels.
- Supervise, in close coordination with the HR department, the associated processes (recruitment, training, evaluation, development and communication) of the nutrition staff of the project in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required, improve people capabilities and skills.
- Supervise the implementation of the nutritional program according to MAGNA protocols, standards. This includes:
- Draw up outpatients activity planning,
- Follow up the evolution of patients and discuss the problem cases taking part in the medical assistant’s round, and install referral system
- Check that medical and nutrition prescriptions are carried out.
- Check the diffusion, knowledge and application of medical, nutritional and anthropometric protocols.
- Supervise nursing care and hygiene circumstances.
- Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and trained. Ensuring cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols. Reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
- Ensure that mothers are well informed about the functioning of the centre, the state and evolution of their child: their tasks (help with cleaning, feeding their child, etc)
o Supervises, in cooperation with the pharmacist and project medical referent, the management of the pharmacy, ensuring reception and storage of orders, preparing new orders when required, supervising expiration terms and consumption patterns, in order to ensure, a rationale use as well as pharmacy stock levels are permanently updated and above minimum safety point.
Ensure correct nutritional data collection (registers, nutritional forms, morbidity forms), compile weekly and monthly statistics for the outpatients unit, report this information to the line manager and provide feedback on the results to the team. In these sense, this function includes all kind of nutritional information that nutritional supervisor has in his /her hands.
Context Specific Accountabilities:
- Overall responsibility of the nutrition activities supervision and control on provincial level.
- Proper planning of the HER project nutrition activities.
- Proper implementation of the nutrition activities according to the project plan and achievement of the seated targets.
- Project coordination on provincial and regional level with all stakeholders.
- Providing ground for smooth implementation on facilities level.
- Participation in different meetings on provincial/regional level which are related to nutrition activities.
- Provision and participation in capacity building program for/with the project nutrition staff.
- Nutrition staff orientation regards their duties and responsibilities.
- Proper management of stock, supply chain, quantification and monthly consumption reporting of the nutrition commodities on provincial level.
- Proper supply of medical and non-medical items to the nutrition sites. Also suitable follow up to proper use supplied items.
- Submitting timely nutrition supply request to the relevant agency.
- Rationalization of the target facilities for nutrition services.
- Conducting regular supportive supervision and follow up of findings strictly.
- Joint monitoring and supervision with PHD, country office team and other stake holders to follow findings and remove all gapes in the projects activities.
- Collecting, analyzing and reporting of the project activities data on regular base and maintain national nutrition database.
- Providing regular feedback on collected data and regular tracking of the progress.
- Preparing ad hock, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and end of project reports and sharing with provincial and country office.
- Any other task assigned by senior management staff or line manager.
Education:
Graduated form from recognized Medical university (MD)
Experience:
At least 3 years’ experience in public health management specially in nutrition (IMAM/MIYCN)
Fluent in English and local languages.
Well familiar with Ms. Office, internet and data entry.
Effective communication and problem solving skills
Interested and Qualified applicants can send their application and CV to the following email:
No other type of submission will be accepted.
Regarding MAGNA recruitment process, please note that!
· MAGNA will conduct its recruitment on the basis of need only.
· MAGNA commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.
· Only HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.
· MAGNA may keep data of your application for its pool of candidate and might propose to you another position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.
Only short-listed candidates whose application responds to the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.
MAGNA is a medical humanitarian organization that has been actively working worldwide and providing humanitarian aid for more than 20 years. Now our projects cover about 15 countries. The largest programs are deployed in Congo (DR), Syria, South Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine. We implement our humanitarian aid projects by working directly with the medical institutions and supporting doctors provided direct emergency medical care to patients who need it.
MAGNA operates internationally and provides assistance to children and their families in need, including victims of natural disasters, wars and conflicts. In the field we maintain doctors and medical staff but also technical and other specialists, providing humanitarian assistance and help to treat children and their families.
MAGNA focusing on Health, Nutrition and MHPSS projects, primarily aimed at saving lives and alleviating the suffering of those in need. Armed conflicts and unstable political situations have a devastating impact on ordinary people. Consequences, often associated with inadequate local health services, commonly include direct violence, forced displacement, epidemics, famine, and psychological trauma. Providing medical assistance to victims of conflicts and crises is MAGNA workers’ top priority. Alleviating suffering from infectious diseases neglected by local structures is another major area of MAGNA’s focus