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Health & Nutrition Assistant

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Position Title: Health & Nutrition Assistant

2024-12-16    Herat     Full Time     223

Job Location: Herat
Nationality: Afghan
Category: Health Care
Employment Type: Full Time
Salary: As per organization's salary scale
Vacancy Number: OCCD/HERAT2024/008
No. Of Jobs: 1
City: Herat
Organization: OCCD
Years of Experience: At least 2 years’ experience in the provision of BPHS/Nutrition services.
Contract Duration: 4 Months with possible extension
Gender: Male/Female
Education: Graduated from medical faculty or any other related field
Close date: 2024-12-16

About OCCD:

Organization for Community Coordination and Development (OCCD) established and registered with Ministry of Economy in 2013, is a non-profit, non-governmental, non-political and independent organization. OCCD works in partnership with Government, development and implementing partners in Health, Education, Agriculture and Livestock, Research and Development

Job Descriptions:

…………..Major Responsibilities 

 

  • Ensure quality of health and nutrition activities (screening for children under five, Growth monitoring, IYCF, IMAM, OPD-MAM, OPD-SAM, and MAM-BPW, OPD, MCH, and EPI in target HFs.
  • Provision of health and nutrition support for HFs on OPD-SAM and OPD-MAM, Services in target together with the MHNTs or Health Facilities.
  • Ensure quality of work (Health and Nutrition) individual level and community level (CHWs) in the field.
  • Supportive supervision from the HFs to ensure the quality of performance and doing job assessment to increase capacity building of HFs staff.
  • Following and conducting the training which targeted area in the project.
  • Coordinate with relevant departments and stakeholders to ensure timely response needs.
  • Ensure that community nutrition health and interventions (MUAC screening and Referral of malnourished children, IYCF and Critical diseases, and hygiene promotion are integrated.
  • Build the capacity of HFs staff by providing on-the-job training on IMAM activities.
  • Support quality data collection of activities conducted in the HFs.
  • Promote increasing awareness of appropriate health and nutrition behaviors in the project
  • Ensure quality and timely reporting on all areas of implementation.
  • Liaise closely with the MEAL team to understand the project outcomes
  • Support the development of case studies and success stories from programmed implementation.
  • Any other additional responsibility as communicated by the supervisor

Job Requirements:

•              At least 2 years’ experience in the provision of BPHS/Nutrition services.

•              Good report writing skills.

•              Ability to engage with different stakeholders and partners in the project site.

•              Must have good attention to detail, all work must be checked.    

•              Graduated from medical faculty or any other related field

Submission Guidelines:

Interested candidates should submit their resumes along with the cover letter to recruitment-af@occd.org.af

PLEASE REMEMBER TO WRITE THE VACANCY#, POSITION, AND PROVINCE IN THE SUBJECT OF YOUR EMAIL. NOTE: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Submission Email:

recruitment-af@occd.org.af

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