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Position: Health & Nutrition Officer
Location: Samburu
Apply Before: 02/24/2024, 11:59 PM ROLE PURPOSE: Following 3 years of extensive research and piloting phase, USAID Nawiri’s context and audience-appropriate interventions have taken shape complemented by continued experiential learning and adaptations based on what works and what needs to change.
The research phase was aimed at providing contextual and nuanced insights to inform co-creation, designing, piloting, and scaling up interventions with the highest potential to contribute to the reduction of persistent acute malnutrition (PAM). Using the designed interventions, USAID Nawiri aims to contribute to the reduction of PAM by 6% by 2024, although there is potential for an extension by a further 3 years.
USAID Nawiri is now implementing a variety of innovative and business unusual interventions designed to fit context and meet audience-specific needs and vulnerabilities. The interventions include multisectoral, multiple system nutrition resilience, policy environment and Governance strengthening interventions requiring a multiplicity of partners, governments, communities, local implementing partners and civil society organizations.
Under the general guidance and direction of the Field Health and Nutrition Advisor, the Health and Nutrition Officer will support people management, technical support to program implementation and monitoring of all health and nutrition activities in the project sites including case management for all the anchor groups, coordinate and work closely with County departments responsible for both nutrition specific and sensitive interventions, local partners, and communities, prepare reports and build capacity of the County/Sub-county staff and respective local communities, promote best practices in health and nutrition programmes and contribute to the overall success of the USAID Nawiri project.
The health and nutrition Officer will ensure joint targeting , planning and implementation, multi-sectoral coordination, learning and adaptation of health and nutrition interventions across all program participants through the anchor group models led by different USAID Nawiri program teams. He/she will ensure continued alignment and monitoring of progress being made towards contributing to improvements in the research and experiential learning informed priority behaviors, practices, policy and system actions, nutrition enabling environment among others for improving nutrition outcomes in Samburu and Turkana county.
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