Nutrition: Project Officer (PD Hearth project)

About Us

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities

• Programmatic and technical implementation for nutrition projects.
• Ensure all malnourished children, pregnant and lactating women are identified, admitted, and discharged from IMAM programs as per national Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) guidelines.
• Support the communities to identify nutrition gaps and develop community-led solutions during the implementation of nutrition and livelihoods projects.
• Provide technical support to the Ministry of Health staff to be able to implement PD Hearth, BFCI, IMAM Surge, and Family MUAC models at both County and Sub-County levels.
• Work closely with community health promoters to mobilize communities to participate in nutrition project interventions.
• Strengthening of community structures to ensure they receive appropriate health and nutrition services.
• Support community health promoters to conduct household nutrition counseling for project beneficiaries at the community level.
• Ensure effective integration of gender, child protection, disability, Christian commitment, and advocacy into nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions.
• Integration of nutrition into livelihood interventions to ensure food security at the household level.
• In liaison with the project accountant, ensure monthly tracking of project expenditure and manage work plans and budgets.
• Quality assurance for programmatic designs, assessments, monitoring, and evaluation processes.
• Develop quality reports: weekly situation reports, monthly reports, and quarterly reports as per WV and/or donor(s) reporting guidelines.
• In liaison with other project partners and MoH, develop a monitoring plan, analyze nutrition information from health information systems and other sources to understand trends for timely decision-making.
• Document success stories and best practices to demonstrate the impact created by WVK from the project implementation.
• Monitor project implementation levels and report progress, impact, and best practices.
• Work with M&E officer to develop ToRs for various activities that require external support and identify specific data requirements.
• Support MOH monitoring to ensure strengthened health systems and accurate reporting in the KHIS.
• Ensure timely analysis of monitoring data and dissemination to key stakeholders for management decision-making.
• Support the implementation of processes to ensure quality of existing project data and information collection.
• Ensure the project is compliant with the humanitarian accountability requirements.
• Ensure project alignment to the donor requirements and support office evaluation protocols and methodological tools.
• Ensure reporting to the CMAM database and PD Hearth database.

Advocacy, Engagement, Networking & Partnerships & Resource Acquisition

• Represent WVK in nutrition stakeholder meetings at county and/or sub-county levels.
• Participate in advocacy activities to ensure resource allocation to nutrition by county governments.
• Engage with MoH at County & Sub-County level to influence resource allocation for nutrition.
• Identify potential areas for fundraising and provide information to inform fundraising initiatives for health and nutrition, education, gender, child protection, and disability at all levels.

Enhanced Empowerment, Documentation & Capacity Development

• Ensure capacity building of government officers, community members, and CBOs to enable them to effectively manage and sustain health and nutrition interventions.
• Conduct training and sensitization of health facility staff and community health promoters on PD Hearth, BFCI, MIYCN, IMAM, Family, and micronutrient supplementation.
• Support the Sub-County and County nutrition officers to conduct community training and follow-ups for community units.
• Ensure continuous learning and documentation of lessons learned and best practices for program design, monitoring, and evaluation frameworks related to emergency response.
• Coordinate the sharing of learning related to MEAL practices across offices and provide support when internal/external reviews, evaluations, and lessons learned exercises should be employed.
• Support the development of project case studies, human interest stories, documentaries, and other related materials.
• In collaboration with M&E officers, document lessons learned and reports (printed, visual) and publish for sharing with the donor and other partners, and proactively share information and learning with internal and external stakeholders.

Knowledge/Qualifications for the Role

Required Professional Experience

• At least three years of working experience, of which two should be in PD Hearth, maternal infant and young child nutrition, and nutrition-sensitive interventions.
• Good understanding of Ministry of Health systems, nutrition programming models, standards, and guidelines, and Ministries of Health structures at county and national levels.
• Familiarity with national health and nutrition policy and advocacy instruments and structures.
• First-hand experience in health and nutrition community resilience programming.
• Significant experience working with an NGO environment, community and people’s groups, state institutions, etc.
• Familiarity with gender inclusion in community interventions.
• Good analytical skills with appropriate attention to detail.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills.
• High professional ethics and integrity.
• Good empirical knowledge of humanitarian codes, principles, and practice.
• Computer literacy in MS Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent team player with the ability to work under minimum supervision.

Required Education, Training, License, Registration, and Certification

• Must have a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition, Food Science and Nutrition, Food Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health Nutrition, or the equivalent from a recognized university.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Experience working in multicultural, multi-location, values-driven teams.
• Experience in working on donor-funded programs.
• Good understanding of nutrition programming in emergency and developmental contexts.

Important Notice

World Vision Kenya is part of the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in the Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector, and all candidates will thus be screened as appropriate for any safeguarding-related misconduct.

World Vision Kenya does not, and will never, solicit money for any part of its recruitment processes including short-listing, interviews, background, and/or medical check-ups.

World Vision Kenya will not be responsible for such fraudulent correspondence or any loss of money or theft which may result from anyone engaging in any fraudulent recruitment activity.

Applicant Types Accepted

Local Applicants Only

Skills Required:

• Food / Technology / Science / Engineering
• Health / Medical