Health & Nutrition Officer

Job Title: Health & Nutrition Officer (01position)
Position Type: Full-Time National Staff
Location: Lamwo
Reports to: Program Area Manager
Contract Length: 2 Years(Fixed)
Start Date: To be hired on a rolling basis

Position Summary:
Under the supervision of the Program Area Manager, the Health and Nutrition Officer will ensure the Health and Nutrition project is implemented in line with FH’s H&N technical program and strategy. Provide training and technical assistance to Care groups, and VHTs, and exhaustively monitor project implementation. This includes conducting surveys and assessments to determine training needs, mobilizing and sensitizing communities and stakeholders, forming participants’ groups, and designing and conducting training of project participants in Essential Nutrition Actions, and essential Nutrition Practices to ensure successful implementation of the project according to to project design document and result framework.

Duties and Responsibilities:
Key Result area #1: Project planning and implementation
Key Result area #2: Management of Maternal child health nutrition
Key Result area #3: Integrate Maternal child health and adolescent nutrition (MIYCAN) in health facilities

Education & Experience

• Degree in Food Science and Technology degree; Public Health or Human Nutrition or Post graduate qualification in the fields above is highly desired.
• Experience in health and nutrition assessments and working in a humanitarian context.
• A minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience in a similar setting is required.
• A good communicator; strong oral and written communications skills desired.
• Must have excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Must have motorcycle riding skills with a valid and clean permit and be willing to access communities by motorcycle
  Language
• Proficiency in any language spoken in the local community and written English is a Must.

NOTE:
*Complete Job Descriptions are available by contacting ckisakye@fh.org

Employment with FH offers an attractive package that includes; a good salary commensurate to one’s role, a good medical insurance package for staff and dependents, provident fund, GPA, and provision for other statutory requirements.

FHU is an equal-opportunity employer. All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply by Clearly stating the position applied for in the Subject line and submitting only electronic copies in one pdf file not more than 25MB of an application letter, a detailed CV, contact telephone numbers, copies of relevant testimonials/certificates, names/contact details of three referees, addressed to:

The Human Resources Manager, Food for the Hungry Uganda Email: recruitment-fhuganda@fh.org not later than Tuesday 4th October 2022 at 4:30 pm. Consider your application unsuccessful if you don’t hear from us by 23rd October 2022

Safeguarding & Protection Clause:
FH strives to provide an environment free from Sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment, and Fraud in all places where relief and development programs are implemented. FH holds a zero-tolerance policy against Sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment, and Fraud. FH expects its employees to maintain high ethical standards, protect organizational integrity and reputation, and ensure that FH work is carried out in honest and fair methods, in alignment with the FH Heartbeat, Anti-Fraud, Safeguarding, and associated policies. Violations to stated policies will be subject to corrective action up to and including termination of employment.

Note: All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and may be subject to appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with the Food for the Hungry Safeguarding, Anti-Fraud & HR policy. In line with this, we will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of fraud, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Disclaimer: It has come to our attention that several agencies or persons are claiming to be acting on Food for the Hungry’s (FH)behalf in recruiting or facilitating the recruitment of personnel. FH does not outsource its recruitment process to any organization or agency that, through website postings, mass e-mail messages, or otherwise claims to be doing recruitment on its behalf. FH does not solicit money for any part of its recruitment processes including short-listing, interviews, background, and/or medical check-ups. FH 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.