Action Against Hunger (AAH) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that was created in France in 1979. AAH has been active in Afghanistan in the medical, nutrition, food security, and water and sanitation fields since 1995.  AAH improved access to health and nutrition services for the most vulnerable people, who live in remote areas without a local health system. In particular, the country team supported pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under five, who are at greater risk of malnutrition. Nutrition programmes rely on an integrated approach, addressing both primary and underlying causes, in order to have a lasting impact on nutritional status.  The country team worked at community level, in villages and at provincial level, strengthening the public health system. It also worked at national level to ensure reliable information about the nutritional situation reached the wider humanitarian community. Covid-19 prevention was integrated into all interventions and additional response activities were implemented, such as the disinfection of health facilities and public places, cash assistance, psychosocial support and the distribution of hygiene kits to affected populations.

Objective 1: Provide Treatment services for acute malnourish Under 5 children and PLW.

• Perform screening & promotion to all U5 children who are visiting RRT services.
• Perform Growth monitoring to all U2 Children who are visiting RRT services.

• Classification of all U5 children in categories of well-nourished and Acute Malnutrition (SAM & MAM).
• Admit all acute malnourished children in OPD SAM/MAM programs.
• Provide nutritional treatment to admitted malnourished children according to approved treatment protocols.
• Perform history taking and physical & medical examination including childhood illness of beneficiaries’ during admission time as well during follow up visits. 
• Perform appetite test for each admitted patient during admission time and decide for provision of treatment services or refer to higher treatment service.
• Perform anthropometric measurement during follow up visit.

• Ensure nutritional follow up of the beneficiaries.
• Prescribe routine medication to admitted patient during admission time according to approved treatment protocol.
• Identify those beneficiaries who do not respond to the treatment and manage their follow up.
• Check vaccinations of patients and refer to appropriate health facilities when required.
• Refer severe acutely malnourished beneficiaries with medical complications to higher health centers (IPD – SAM or Pediatric ward) for advance treatment. 
• Ensure medical examination at discharge time and validate the discharge upon the status of the beneficiaries;
• Check if all the procedures are completed before discharge (anthropometric measurements, medical and nutritional treatment, systematic treatment, and health and nutrition educations to caretakers).
• Check that the criteria of discharge are met and act according to the approved treatment guidelines.
• Record all the necessary information on the existing reporting’s tools (registration book and card for each beneficiary and etc..)
• Provide health and nutrition educations to the caregivers on breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and hygiene, care of pregnant and lactating women, prevention of illness.

Objective 2: Provide treatment and counselling services on IMNCI to under 5 children as assigned by  line manager

• Diagnostic and treatment services should be performed based on the validated guidelines.
• Conduct history taking and perform physical examination of sick children.
• Assess the different signs and symptoms for patient diagnosis
• Prescribe the appropriate medication for the patient.
• Determine if this is an initial or follow up visit for this problem.
• Counsel the caretaker and provide them a necessary messages especially on usage of medicine.
• Facilitate the referral for complicated patients with official document for advance treatment to higher health centers. 
• Record all necessary information in the existing reporting tools.

Objective 3: Infant Young Child Feeding (IYCF) counselling:

• Promote breastfeeding skills through spreading of relevant 1000 days of life messages to mothers and caretakers.
• Provide Key IYCF messaged to the mothers and caretakers duding performing of GMP to under 2 years children.
• Organize group sessions on basic/key messages on 1000 days of life to caretakers who are visiting RRT.
• Refer patients to proper services based on needs (having complication).
• Support the conduction of nutrition and health education sessions to clients who are searching RRT services.
• Record all the necessary information on the existing reporting’s tools. 

Objective 4: Prepare all the material /Reporting tools and documentation

• Before leaving the office ensure all the material is ready and active (relevant equipment’s, registers, nutritional supplies, medicines…).
• Keep all items in the field very well and after the field visit, clean and prepare the using in coming day.
• Update all reporting tools on daily basis.
• Keep and maintain a good filing system for all documents
• Prepared the reports (Daily, Weekly and monthly) according to the standard reporting tools.
• Assist line supervisor on performing other duties assigned by the organization.

• Graduate medical nurse from recognized institute
• At least 3 years’ experience in the field of health and nutrition.
• Previous experiences working in health nutrition activities (OPD, TFU, pediatric unit….) 
• Good organization, planning and reporting skills are necessary.
• Ability to manage working environment according to local culture
• Fluent in local languages (Dari & Pashto), knowledge of English is a plus.
• High flexibility in deployment, possible with Mahram
• Knowledge of intervention area is a plus
• Develops and promotes effective collaboration within and across units to achieve shared goals and optimize results.
• Continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate

Qualified and interested candidates should submit a cover letter and full CV with three Referees indicating the vacancy announcement to the address:

Human Resources Department AAH office

or can also be emailed to:

vacancies-hl@af-actionagainsthunger.org indicating the job tile and vacancy number of the position in the email subject line.

Eligible candidates are invited to apply the earliest possible deadline is set for 27 Nov 2024.

Do not submit academic certificates with the application. These will be requested if the candidate is selected. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the written test/interview.  

Action Against Hunger/Action Conter La Faim is an equal opportunity employer.  We strongly encourage women and people with disabilities to apply.  ACF/AAH has zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, and abuse (SEA).