Nutrition Assistant at IsraAID

• Assist in conducting routine community and facility-based nutrition screening for children under five and pregnant and lactating women following national CMAM guidelines.
• Support enrolment, referral, follow-up and tracking of malnutrition cases in collaboration with community health volunteers and MOH health staff.
• Provide basic support in facility-based and outreach management of acute malnutrition (OTP/SFP).
• Promote MIYCN practices including breastfeeding counselling and complementary feeding messages in community settings.
• Support delivery of behaviour change communication on key nutrition and health practices.

• Support, mentor and mobilize community health volunteers and outreach workers to improve screening, referral, and follow-up.
• Provide on-the-job training and coaching to volunteers on CMAM, MIYCN best practices.

• Collect, compile and submit weekly, monthly and ad-hoc program data and activity reports to the Nutrition Officer in line with donor and organizational standards.
• Support accurate data entry and quality assurance of program monitoring tools.
• Assist in preparation of case studies, success stories and lessons learned.

• Participate in stakeholder meetings at community and sub-county level as required by supervisor.
• Liaise with the health facility teams, WASH and protection counterparts to support integrated referral pathways.

• Track basic nutrition commodities and equipment at field sites and report stock levels to Nutrition Officer.

• Perform additional tasks as assigned by supervisor.

• Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition & Dietetics, Public Health Nutrition, Community Nutrition, or related field from a recognized institution.
• Registered with the Kenya Nutrition & Dietetics Institute (KNDI) preferred.
• Minimum 2 to 3 years’ experience implementing community nutrition programs with exposure to CMAM, MIYCN, IMAM surge or related interventions.

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