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Role Summary

Assist and supervise Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) and the Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) nutrition programmes. Provide training and supervision to local staff, manage reports and data, ensure adequate stocks, and monitor health and nutrition activities. Oversee intermittent programme management requiring creative approaches.

Project Overview

Medair implements a comprehensive nutrition programme in Leer County to combat the high rates of malnutrition affecting vulnerable populations, particularly children under five and pregnant and lactating women. At the heart of Medair’s approach is the Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition where Medair operates 19 nutrition sites (18 OTP/TSFP and 1 stabilisation center) with an overarching goal of reducing morbidity and mortality in Leer’s vulnerable communities, particularly in areas where Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rates exceed emergency thresholds.

Workplace & Conditions

Field based position in Leer, South Sudan

Responsibilities:

• Nutrition Management: Oversee the nutrition programme (CMAM and MIYCN), ensuring quality service delivery, staff training, accurate reporting, and represent the organisation in local coordination meetings.

• Programme integration: Coordinate with Behaviour Change Communication (BCC), health, WASH and MHPSS projects to maximise benefits of Medair’s multisectoral programme to the admitted children and caregivers.

• Staff Management: Assist in recruiting local staff, manage and oversee nutrition staff, and ensure they receive appropriate supervision, mentoring, and training to develop their skills and knowledge.

• Financial Management: Manage field location finances and salary payments in coordination with the Project Manager and Project Support Manager. Oversee petty cash requirements and paperwork.

• Logistics and Quality Management: Coordinate ordering and management of stocks and supplies and systems, monitor expiration dates, implement policies including Sphere and HAP standards. Participate in workshops.

Qualifications, Experience & Technical Competencies:

• Degree in Nutrition

• 2 years post-qualification experience in humanitarian work implementing CMAM programmes

• Experience working in a nutrition programme in a developing country, preferably humanitarian context

• Language skills: Good English (spoken and written)

• Supervisory management experience

Behavioural Skills

• Creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner, with good understanding of cross-cultural issues

• Capacity to work under pressure and manage personal stress levels

• Able to oversee multiple tasks, prioritizing and delegating as required

• Good communication skills

• Team-player with good inter-personal skills, creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner

Before you apply

Please ensure you are fully aware of the:

a. Medair organisational values.

b. Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staff are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with, Medair’s accountability policies and best practices.

c. Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).

Application Process

To apply, go to this vacancy on our Medair page. Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications. Only English-language applications / CVs will be reviewed.

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Medair is a humanitarian aid organisation inspired by Christian faith. For our Headquarters and Internationally Recruited Staff, we are looking for professionals who share our values, and are committed and motivated to relieve suffering in some of the world’s most remote and vulnerable communities. What’s so rewarding about a career with Medair? You will help save and sustain the lives of people who truly need assistance, while also learning new skills in a complex humanitarian environment. You will immerse yourself in a foreign culture and experience the joys and challenges of living and working with an international team. You will know the rich blessing of saving a life, of teaching new skills, of seeing communities restored and transformed.

Medair is an international non-governmental organization NGO of humanitarian aid with a stated mission, "to relieve suffering in some of the world’s most remote and devastated places." Medair provides emergency relief and recovery services including Health and Nutrition; Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene; and Shelter and Infrastructure. Medair lists its values as: hope, compassion, dignity, accountability, integrity, and faith.Medair’s statutes were registered in 1989 with the Registre du Commerce of the state of Vaud, Switzerland. Its international and operational headquarters are based in Switzerland. Medair has been active in 31 countries, working in some of the most remote, hard-to-reach places in the world. It is independent of any political, economic, or social authority. As a signatory of the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief, the organization provides aid to the most vulnerable, irrespective of race, gender, religion, age, or nationality.Medair has approximately 750 employees worldwide, many with years of humanitarian experience. Medair’s annual operating income in 2013 was USD 45.3 million. Its programs served 1.25 million direct beneficiaries in 2013.The organization is responding to the Nepal earthquakes, to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon and Jordan and providing relief and recovery services in, South Sudan, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Afghanistan, Syria and Somalia. Recent programs have been run in Albania, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Chad, Chechnya, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Ingushetia, Iraq, Iran, Kenya, Kosovo, Liberia, Mozambique, Ossetia, Philippines, Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Pakistan, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

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Role Summary

Assist and supervise Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) and the Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) nutrition programmes. Provide training and supervision to local staff, manage reports and data, ensure adequate stocks, and monitor health and nutrition activities. Oversee intermittent programme management requiring creative approaches.

Project Overview

Medair implements a comprehensive nutrition programme in Leer County to combat the high rates of malnutrition affecting vulnerable populations, particularly children under five and pregnant and lactating women. At the heart of Medair's approach is the Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition where Medair operates 19 nutrition sites (18 OTP/TSFP and 1 stabilisation center) with an overarching goal of reducing morbidity and mortality in Leer's vulnerable communities, particularly in areas where Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rates exceed emergency thresholds.

Workplace & Conditions

Field based position in Leer, South Sudan

Responsibilities:

• Nutrition Management: Oversee the nutrition programme (CMAM and MIYCN), ensuring quality service delivery, staff training, accurate reporting, and represent the organisation in local coordination meetings.

• Programme integration: Coordinate with Behaviour Change Communication (BCC), health, WASH and MHPSS projects to maximise benefits of Medair’s multisectoral programme to the admitted children and caregivers.

• Staff Management: Assist in recruiting local staff, manage and oversee nutrition staff, and ensure they receive appropriate supervision, mentoring, and training to develop their skills and knowledge.

• Financial Management: Manage field location finances and salary payments in coordination with the Project Manager and Project Support Manager. Oversee petty cash requirements and paperwork.

• Logistics and Quality Management: Coordinate ordering and management of stocks and supplies and systems, monitor expiration dates, implement policies including Sphere and HAP standards. Participate in workshops.

Qualifications, Experience & Technical Competencies:

• Degree in Nutrition

• 2 years post-qualification experience in humanitarian work implementing CMAM programmes

• Experience working in a nutrition programme in a developing country, preferably humanitarian context

• Language skills: Good English (spoken and written)

• Supervisory management experience

Behavioural Skills

• Creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner, with good understanding of cross-cultural issues

• Capacity to work under pressure and manage personal stress levels

• Able to oversee multiple tasks, prioritizing and delegating as required

• Good communication skills

• Team-player with good inter-personal skills, creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner

Before you apply

Please ensure you are fully aware of the:

a. Medair organisational values.

b. Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staff are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with, Medair’s accountability policies and best practices.

c. Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).

Application Process

To apply, go to this vacancy on our Medair page. Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications. Only English-language applications / CVs will be reviewed.

2024-11-08

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