Overview
The Nutritionist plans, implements, and monitors nutrition programmes in line with the country strategy. The role involves contributing to nutrition assessments, data collection, analysis, and the design of activities to improve beneficiaries' nutritional status.
Key Responsibilities
- Contributes to designing, planning and implementing a nutrition assessment.
- Collects data using data-collection tools and devices.
- Enters data into and maintains survey databases and the EcoSec Programme Management Tool (EPMT).
- Performs basic qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
- Describes results and produces data visualizations.
- Contributes to analysing the food system and households' nutrition situation.
- Provides nutrition-related input to food-system analysis.
- Contributes to identifying response options.
- Contributes to designing and implementing activities aimed at restoring, protecting and improving beneficiaries' food consumption and nutritional status.
- Contributes to designing and implementing a monitoring system and evaluating the results of nutrition-related activities.
- Contributes to analysing the security, socioeconomic, cultural and political environment.
- Contributes to internal reporting.
- Translates documents for internal use and interprets upon request.
- Contributes to organizing and providing capacity-building activities.
- May contribute to providing supervision, guidance, support and appraisals for EcoSec staff.
- Provides administrative support.
Required Experience
3–5 years’ experience in a similar field.
Qualifications
Bachelors degree in nutritional science or public health, or equivalent work experience.
