Identification 1
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Job Title:
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Distribution Nutrition Officer
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Reports to:
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Project Manager
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Duty station
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Fako and Meme
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Duration
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2 months with possibilities of extension
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Duties and Tasks
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- Implementing and following at all times the universal hygiene standards, security rules and other protocols and procedures regarding nursing and children nutrition matters.
- Ensuring proper functioning of the Therapeutic Program. This includes:
- Daily collecting the number of new admissions and exits and to check the attendance
- Calculating the quantity of food needed for the day based on the number of children registered
- Ensuring triage of patients in waiting areas, detecting the priority acute cases, carrying out first aid care when necessary and referring them to the doctor if necessary.
- Carrying-out all patient's related tasks for the admission, weighing and measuring the children, identifying the degree and types of malnutrition, administration (patient card, register...) etc.
- Ensuring that medical and nutritional care is properly delivered to the patients and to daily follow the evolution of the patients.
- Carrying-out consultations to children and their parents, undertaking a complete clinical examination of children, looking for associated pathologies, drawing up nutritional surveillance forms and milk cards, providing required vaccination, etc.
- Carrying-out surveillance and follow-up of patients' medical and nutritional evolution, identifying possible emergency situations arising and keeping doctors informed if necessary.
- Providing advice and inform children's families about everything concerning the hospitalization, participate in the health education of the mothers and/or treatment process.
- Controlling all pharmacy, food, and medical equipment (carrying out inventories, checking its quality and its functioning, storage conditions, doing follow-up of expired drugs, etc.)
- Carrying-out and supervise administrative procedures and documents (fill in patients files, forms, statistics, etc.), ensure an appropriate written/oral handover, and report any problematic situations and cases arising.
- Performing minor maintenance and cleaning of the biomedical equipment following user manual and protocols. Alerting the supervisor in case of malfunctioning of any device.
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Competences and Knowledge
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- Master's degree in social sciences, management, agronomy, and / or rural development
- Experience in a humanitarian context, preferably in an emergency context.
- Work experience in the cash transfer and food distribution approach at methodological and operational levels.
- Experience working and / or collaborating on a PAM project would be an asset
- Managerial experience of at least 1 year at a decision-making level for a project.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure, in a tense secure environment and with limited means.
- Good organizational skills and responsiveness.
- Ability to develop methodological and training tools.
- Strong analytical and proposal capacity.
- Good writing skills ;
- Knowledge in analysis of the functioning of markets in rural and urban areas.
- Strong skills in team and project management.
- Strong communication and information skills.
- Excellent knowledge of Excel (data and list processing, direct mail, knowledge of basic formulas), Word (Narrative reporting) and Microsoft Outlook
- Critical mind
- Sense of priorities and responsibilities, strong organizational capacity
- Autonomous and sense of teamwork,
- Sincere motivation for humanitarian engagement
- Sense of diplomacy and negotiation
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Educational and professional experience required
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- Formation et experiences:
- Nursing diploma with nutritional training essential.
- Previous experience required. Experience other NGO's and /or in similar context desirable.
- Local language essential. Mission language desirable.
- Desirable computer literacy (word, excel)
- Results, teamwork, commitment, flexibility, service.
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Technical and behavioral competencies required
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Adaptability:
- Ability to work effectively under pressure, in a safe, tense environment and with limited means;
- Good organizational skills and responsiveness;
- Ability to develop methodological and training tools;
- Strong capacity for analysis and proposal;
- Good writing skills;
Team Management:
- Knowledge in analysis of community sensitization an appraisal in rural and urban areas ;
- Strong team and project management skills;
- Strong communication and information skills.
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Desirable competencies and qualifications
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Personal qualities:
- Critical thinking
- Sense of priorities and responsibilities, strong organizational capacity
- Autonomous and a sense of teamwork,
- Sincere motivation for humanitarian involvement
- Diplomacy and negotiation skills
Computer literacy:
- Excellent knowledge of Excel (data and list processing, direct mail, knowledge of basic formulae), Word (narrative reporting) and Microsoft Outlook.
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Languages
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- Knowledge of pidgin English mandatory
- English: working language of the project
- Knowledge of local vernacular languages would be an asset
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Special requirements
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Gender:
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Local position:
Be a native of English-speaking regions
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