Nutrition Technical Officer

Humanitarian Assistance Society (HAS) is a non- profit, non-political, and non-governmental organization. It is registered with the Ministry of Economy under license # 5824, HAS works to support the struggle against poverty, hunger, and social injustice. We work in a variety of sectors including health and nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), good governance, capacity building, social justice awareness-raising, advocacy, and human rights promotion and protection. HAS has been helping vulnerable Afghan communities since 2005 through launching different interventions in more than 30 provinces of Afghanistan

• The Nutrition assistant provides high quality technical assistance and support to technical staff and Health Facilities staff; he/she will work to increase health facility staff capacity to deliver appropriate services to improve women and children nutritional status.
• Regular supervision of health facility staff (midwives, nurses and head of health facilities) to ensure proper delivery of nutritional services (prevention, assessment, diagnosis and treatment).
• Overall management of SAM, MAM, IYCF, Iron and micronutrient distribution, TSFP and IMAM in the HFs Ensure the staff level of knowledge and identify their needs for training.
• Follow up of breast feeding and breast-feeding substitutes in HFs Follow up of Growth/Monitoring of all children and screening of mother’s nutritional status coming to HFs and HPs.
• Provide the Health facility Staff with high quality technical support and on-job training in field of nutrition and health.
• Conduct training in field of Nutrition and Health for Health facilities staff and if required for CHWs Inspire the medical staff in daily malnutrition screening and proper nutritional consultation in health facilities.
• Help the technical team in setting the target indicators for nutritional/health up to the end of project.
• Evaluate progress towards indicators and find the gap against progress.  
• Ensure timely and appropriately reporting by Health facilities.
• Ensure transfer of updated policies and guidelines related to Nutrition to all Health Facility staff and Health Posts.
• Ensure enough equipment required for quality Nutritional service provision in HFs.
• Ensure every child under 5Y is going for growth monitoring and have the Growth monitoring chart.
• Ensure every PLW is receiving IYCF consultation in HFs and HPs coordination with reproductive health officer.
• Coordinate with HMIS-Officer to ensure the data and information is collected and entered to database. 
• Assist the Project manager in preparation of quarterly report by providing needed data and information.
•  Participate in meeting/workshops in order to upgrade technical and managerial knowledge. 
• To provide to Project Manager monthly action plans and monthly reports.
• Able to Run Nutrition Database and Reporting.

Job requirements:

• At least 3 years of proven experience at field of nutrition;
• MD/ MBBS degree or graduation documents from a registered medical institute;
• Strong communications skills;
• Fluent Pashto and Dari, English, with excellent speaking and writing skills;
• Proficient computing skills – word processing, spreadsheet design and presentations.

Other skills required:

• Efficiency, result-oriented and excellent management capabilities;
• Problem solving/ conflict resolution;
• Respect confidentiality of organization;
• Ability to travel around the country;
• Capacity to perform effectively under pressure and harsh conditions; ability to handle confidential and politically sensitive issues in a responsible and mature manner;
• Excellent capacity development and teamwork skills; cross-cultural and gender sensitivity;
• Ability to use information technology effectively.

Interested Applicants should submit their CVs to Vacancies.has@gmail.com until 03/08/2024 to with the vacancy title indicating in the subject of their emails. Incomplete applications and applications received after the closing date will not be accepted, applications without the reference will not be considered Experience