Manager - Nutrition, Al Thani
Job Description
Title: Manager - Nutrition, Al Thani
Company Name: Save the Children
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's Degree, preferably in Food and Nutrition/Nutrition Education/Social Science or relevant subject.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 6 year(s)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ The Manager - Nutrition will be responsible for providing guidance and technical backstopping in health education, nutrition and social behavioural change communication to camp and host community teams to ensure caregivers and households have knowledge about optimum nutrition practices.
∎ S/he will also provide capacity building support to partner staffs to train health care providers to educate patients on what constitutes a nutritionally balanced diet, provide information for homestead food production.
∎ The Manager will carry out district and sub-district level advocacy to increase the understanding of government stakeholders and capacity for delivery of nutrition sensitive services, and strengthen service provision in the malnutrition treatment centres through the provision of technical advisory services.
Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 6 years' experience in nutrition, communication or food security development programmes, with developing and/or revising nutrition, health or behaviour change training materials in English and Bengali
∎ Experience in producing SBCC/nutrition materials and providing training in essential nutrition and hygiene actions will be an advantage.
∎ Excellent facilitator with experience in providing technical training and guidance in nutrition education and behaviour change programmes.
∎ Demonstrated experience in incorporating counselling, behaviour change theory and adult learning principles into training curricula.
∎ Experience with formative/qualitative and quantitative research and studies in health and nutrition.
∎ Experience liaising with government health and family planning departments and institutions in implementing nutrition programmes.
∎ Excellent written communications skills, including report writing
∎ Proficiency in MS Office, especially in power point and excel
∎ Motivated, committed, responsible, able to work independently with limited direct supervision.
∎ Training/capacity building skills
Application Deadline: December 21, 2019
Company Information:
∎ Save the Children
∎ Business : The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Category: NGO/Development
