Nurse (Nutrition)
Job Description
Title: Nurse (Nutrition)
Company Name: Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Cox's Bazar
Vacancy: --
Age: 25 to 50 years
Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)
Minimum Salary: Tk. 48000 (Monthly)
Experience:
∎ At least 1 year
Published: 4 Jun 2025
Education:
∎ Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Nursing
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age 25 to 50 years
∎ Ability to communicate in the Rohingya language (spoken Chittagong dialect)
∎ Working Experience in the Rohingya context with the Nutrition sector will add an extra advantage.
∎ Ability to communicate in the Rohingya language (spoken Chittagong dialect)
∎ Working Experience in the Rohingya context with the Nutrition sector will add an extra advantage.
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Ensuring the treatment of severe acute and moderate acute malnourished cases as per standard protocols and national guidelines.
∎ Verifying the anthropometric measurements of acute malnourished cases and enrolling in outpatient therapeutic or targeted supplementary feeding programs.
∎ Examine any medical complications among acutely malnourished children and refer to health facilities and stabilization centers if required
∎ Ensuring medication, supplementations, and therapeutic/supplementary feeding to acutely malnourished children as per protocol
∎ Support linkages to other services, particularly the IYCF Corners- Encouraging lactating mothers to use the IYCF corners.
∎ Ensuring follow-up home visits for the required beneficiaries with support and coordination with the outreach team and keeping the proper documentation.
∎ Ensuring that services are delivered with maximum efficiency and professionalism and that beneficiaries are treated with respect at all times
∎ Ensuring that caregivers understand the information on their child's progress as recorded in the cards.
∎ Assisting in the Referral/transfer of sick patients and the safe handover of patients.
∎ Filling up Nutrition Sector/GK authority provided registers, treatment, and beneficiary cards of OTP/TSFP/OTP
∎ Follow up components accurately and neatly, asking caregivers' questions as per the information required in the register.
∎ Responsible for maintaining excellent infection control standards at the facility level
∎ Flexibility in working hours because of the emergency nature of activities
∎ Enable a friendly collaborative working culture within the team, actively sharing information and knowledge to enable the team to ensure effective learning and sharing across the team
∎ Support preparing and compiling monthly and weekly reports capturing the best practices.
∎ Ability to face workload and good time management
∎ Language requirement: Bangla and Rohingya Refugee/ Cox's Bazar
∎ preferable employee shall respect Gonoshasthaya Kendra's & partner’s Conditions of Engagement
∎ Carry out any additional assignment in accordance with her/his position entrusted by the clinic Manager of GK from time to time and mutually agreed upon;
∎ Management may, at any point of time, modify this job description as it is deemed necessary in Gonoshasthaya Kendra's interests in consultation with incumbent.
∎ Job Context
∎ GK was created in 1972 with two visions. Firstly, "the fate of the poor decides the fate of the country". Secondly, the "development of the country depends on the development of women". Since 2017, Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK) and multiple Donors have entered in a partnership to respond to the Rohingya crisis in Cox Bazar & Bhasanchar.
∎ Job Location: Teknaf / Ukhiya (Cox's Bazar)/ Bhasanchar (Hatia, Noakhali)
∎ Job Responsibilities:
∎ Ensuring the treatment of severe acute and moderate acute malnourished cases as per standard protocols and national guidelines.
∎ Verifying the anthropometric measurements of acute malnourished cases and enrolling in outpatient therapeutic or targeted supplementary feeding programs.
∎ Examine any medical complications among acutely malnourished children and refer to health facilities and stabilization centers if required
∎ Ensuring medication, supplementations, and therapeutic/supplementary feeding to acutely malnourished children as per protocol
∎ Support linkages to other services, particularly the IYCF Corners- Encouraging lactating mothers to use the IYCF corners.
∎ Ensuring follow-up home visits for the required beneficiaries with support and coordination with the outreach team and keeping the proper documentation.
∎ Ensuring that services are delivered with maximum efficiency and professionalism and that beneficiaries are treated with respect at all times
∎ Ensuring that caregivers understand the information on their child's progress as recorded in the cards.
∎ Assisting in the Referral/transfer of sick patients and the safe handover of patients.
∎ Filling up Nutrition Sector/GK authority provided registers, treatment, and beneficiary cards of OTP/TSFP/OTP
∎ Follow up components accurately and neatly, asking caregivers' questions as per the information required in the register.
∎ Responsible for maintaining excellent infection control standards at the facility level
∎ Flexibility in working hours because of the emergency nature of activities
∎ Enable a friendly collaborative working culture within the team, actively sharing information and knowledge to enable the team to ensure effective learning and sharing across the team
∎ Support preparing and compiling monthly and weekly reports capturing the best practices.
∎ Ability to face workload and good time management
∎ Language requirement: Bangla and Rohingya Refugee/ Cox's Bazar
∎ preferable employee shall respect Gonoshasthaya Kendra's & partner’s Conditions of Engagement
∎ Special Note:
∎ Carry out any additional assignment in accordance with her/his position entrusted by the clinic Manager of GK from time to time and mutually agreed upon;
∎ Management may, at any point of time, modify this job description as it is deemed necessary in Gonoshasthaya Kendra's interests in consultation with incumbent.
Skills & Expertise:
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
Workplace:
∎ Work at office
Employment Status: Full Time
Gender:
∎ Only Female
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)
Read Before Apply:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews. The initial contract will be until December 31, 2025. The selected candidates are expected to join by July 01, 2025
Company Information:
∎ Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Cox's Bazar
∎ GK-UNHCR/UNICEF/ WFP Project Office Chowdhury Properties, Ward No: 10 Middle Baharchara, Cox’s Bazar (Nearby Cox's Bazar International School)
Address::
∎ GK-UNHCR/UNICEF/ WFP Project Office Chowdhury Properties, Ward No: 10 Middle Baharchara, Cox’s Bazar (Nearby Cox's Bazar International School)
Application Deadline: 16 Jun 2025
Category: Nurse
