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Job Title:        Nutrition Assistants 

Location: North/South Waziristan.

Application submission Date: December 1, 2015

Gender: Male/Females

  •  Education &Skills:
  • Graduate in Nutrition’/B.sc Nursing/Lady Health visitor diploma /Health Technology diploma /midwifery diploma/
  • Minimum 2 years’ experience relevant experience
  • Ability to work under pressure.
  • Multitasking
  • Record keeping skills.
  • Preference will be give local candidates
  • English/Pashto/Urdu.

Job description of NA The “Nutrition Assistants” will be responsible for all activities at the assigned government health facility.

-       Prepare weekly and monthly work plan for health and nutrition education sessions to be conducted in the project area.

-       Arrange, organize and conduct health, IYCF, hygiene and nutrition education sessions with special involvement of pregnant women and lactating mothers.

-       Training of community CNW, lady health workers and community nutrition supervisors on MUAC based Anthropometry for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers

-       Organize and conduct nutrition screening in the project area with the involvement of community nutrition promoters and CNW

-       Systematic reporting of community nutrition screening, health & nutrition education sessions.

-       Ensure that program implementation follows the defined strategies and methodologies

-       Guide and supervise field personnel (Community Nutrition supervisors and community nutrition promoters) in community based CMAM methodologies.

-       Actively participate in the improvement and strengthening   of CMAM  strategies and methodologies

-       Assist nutrition assistants in weekly and monthly CMAM report preparation.

-       Ensure expanded community mobilization strategies to maximum involvement of the target population through village and UC level community committee formation.

-       Assist in the nutrition coordinator in monitoring and reporting of activities

-       Facilitate relevant trainings to field staff and community members targeted by the project

-       Collect data from the field and consolidate them in weekly, bi-weekly and monthly reports