Overview
Review existing health and nutrition policies, strategies and guidelines for adoption of the essential maternal nutrition package and develop a maternal nutrition training package for health workers.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical, operational, and coordination support to review existing health and nutrition policies and guidelines for adoption of the essential maternal nutrition package within the Essential Primary Health Services.
- Develop a maternal nutrition training package for health workers.
- Strengthen existing delivery platforms for maternal nutrition and health service, with a focus on MMS/IFA and MNP programming, anemia prevention and control, capacity building of health workers and partners.
- Establish and strengthen maternal nutrition screening, weight gain monitoring, nutrition education, and diet counselling, SBCC and referrals.
- Support supply planning and needs‑based release, SBC rollout, data systems strengthening DHIS2/HMIS integration and DQA and coordination with FMoH/MoH, clusters, and partners.
Required Experience
- 4–8 years’ experience in development and review of nutrition policy and programs.
- Experience in design and development of training curriculum/packages for maternal and child health and nutrition.
- Experience in capacity building, training and skill development in maternal adolescent and child health and nutrition areas within RMNCAH with experience in humanitarian settings.
- Proven experience of Capacity Development and Service Delivery with Integration of Multisystem, mainly health, social protection/cash transfer and livelihoods.
- Strong experience in Maternal nutrition programming, ability to demonstrate knowledge in the current WHO recommendations on maternal nutrition. and micronutrient supplementation (e.g., MMS, IFA, BEP?).
- Proven experience of review and development of health/nutrition policy, health and nutrition programme implementation MMS/IFA programming, anaemia prevention, SBC, and health systems integration and strengthening.
- Demonstrated experience in curriculum development and development of training materials in maternal and reproductive health and nutrition, and in capacity building of health workers at health facilities and community.
- Solid understanding of Anemia prevention and control strategies, Maternal nutrition and diet counselling and assessments of anemia and weight gain monitoring, Screening and Referrals of PBW to tailored counselling, supplementary feeding/Balanced Energy Protein, Cash transfer, livelihood and Community‑based nutrition approaches for maternal and child health and nutrition.
- Strong skills in capacity building, supportive supervision, and developing training materials.
- Proven experience in programme planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Knowledge on integration of maternal nutrition across ANC, PHC, community health, and humanitarian response programme.
- Strong interpersonal and coordination abilities with government, UN, and partners.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree in public health, Nutrition, or related field
