Nutrition Officer

The Nutrition Project Officer will be responsible for the nutrition work in Pochalla. This includes providing technical oversight; facilitating training; monitoring and evaluation (of feeding centres, community screening, follow up and sensitisation); development of project and monthly reports and representation to the community and other stakeholders.

The post-holder will, at all times, carry out their responsibilities with the utmost respect for the protection of children in accordance with Tearfund's Child Protection Policy.

The post-holder will be required to actively participate in the spiritual life of Tearfund.

Do you have experience of:

Proven experience in supervising nutrition programmes knowledge of good practice standards: SPHERE Experience in training staff and community members. Proven experience in both People Management and Project Implementation. Experience in working with health structures At least 2 years' experience in implementing CMAM programmes.

Do you have ability to:

Good verbal and written English. Good command of local language Training skills Problem solving skills Familiarity with the local area Ability to communicate with children and their caretakers. Report writing skills Computer literate (Word & Excel) Ability to manage others and organise workload. Ability to work unsupervised Development of positive relationships with community stakeholders Physically fit Ability to lead, participate and facilitate in collective staff prayer and bible studies

Do you:

Hold a degree in Nutrition, public health, nursing or equivalent qualification (certified nurse, clinical officer / certified midwife) Share in Tearfund's vision to see all people freed from poverty, living transformed lives, and reaching their God-given potential?

Then we'd love to hear from you.

All applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs.

The role will be based in Uror, South Sudan, the successful candidate must be ready to travel to Uror.

The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.

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