Nutritionist and Referral officer

• Overview:

PAC is an active NGO established in 2012, registered in Turkey, active in NWS, with other small operations offices in both Yemen and Sudan.

In NWS; PAC is a leading organization in both the health and Nutrition sectors through several central programs that work to improve the resilience of crisis-affected communities in NWS.

PAC’s programs always aimed to build and support the active health and nutrition systems in the target areas through maintaining a high level of integration across several sectors and leads central services to facilitate the provision of the service that other actors are running in NWS.

PAC is fully applying for the Protection against sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) principles in all its work stages, as well, PAC is highly committed to creating a safe service provision environment based on humanitarian principles, and international humanitarian law, clean of any racism. PAC is expecting any current and future employees to commit to these principles.

• DEPARTMENT: Program

• Position: Nutritionist and Referral officer

• REPORTS TO: Project Manager

• PLACE OF WORK: NW Syria

• LANGUAGE: Arabic.

• Position Overview:

Help the program in the early detection of malnutrition cases by reaching as many of the target community and ensuring the referral of these cases and spreading health and nutrition awareness.

Main Responsibility and main support required:

-helping the surveillance team in collecting the needed data.

– ensuring referral of detected malnutrition cases to the nearest treatment center and follow-up the success of the referral.

-Documentation on records

-Determining signs of violence in children and women.

-Raising awareness of health-care and nutrition services provided in the area.

-Encourage demand (nutrition services, family planning services and reproductive health /clinics/vaccine)

-dissemination of health messages (IYCF , Hygiene, Covid 19, Pregnant Feeding, Disease Prevention, Group Awareness Sessions)

-Follow public safety procedures while dealing with beneficiaries

-Attend scheduled training as needed.

-Commitment to the organization’s uniforms

-Maintaining the dignity of beneficiaries and the confidentiality of information

Qualifications:

• General high school diploma or equivalent
• Two years of experience in nutrition and health.
• Two years of experience in humanitarian work.
• Experience in conducting surveys and Anthropometric measurements
• Training courses in related field (CHW, IYCF, CMAM) Knowledge of working on data collection applications

Application deadline: 16.11.2022