Nutrition Supervisor (White Nile) – MSF Spain
Job Description
| Salary | 1,205 USD |
| Reports to | Nutrition Activities Manager or, Project Medical Reference |
| Location | White Nile Refugee Camps |
| Closing date | 03/08/2023 |
Main Purpose
Ensure the implementation of all nutritional-related activities of the program and coordinate and manage the team under his/her responsibility according to the MSF protocols in order to improve the nutritional conditions of the target population
Accountabilities
- Schedules and organizes all nutrition-related activities, its organization design and sizing as well as its associated budget in order to efficiently maintain the continuity of nutritional healthcare at the standard quality levels.
- Supervise, in close coordination with the HR department, the associated processes (recruitment, training, evaluation, development, and communication) of the nutrition staff of the project in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required, improve people capabilities and skills.
- Supervise the implementation of the nutritional program according to MSF protocols, standards. This includes:
- Draw up outpatients’ activity planning,
- Follow up on the evolution of patients and discuss the problem cases taking part in the medical assistant’s round, and install referral system.
- Check that medical and nutrition prescriptions are carried out.
- Check the diffusion, knowledge, and application of medical, nutritional, and anthropometric protocols.
- Supervise nursing care and hygiene circumstances.
- Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and trained. Ensuring cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols. Reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
- Ensure that mothers are well informed about the functioning of the center, the state and evolution of their child: their tasks (help with cleaning, feeding their child, etc)
- Supervises, in cooperation with the pharmacist and project medical referent, the management of the pharmacy, ensuring reception and storage of orders, preparing new orders when required, supervising expiration terms and consumption patterns, in order to ensure, a rationale use as well as pharmacy stock levels are permanently updated and above minimum safety point.
- Ensure correct nutritional data collection (registers, nutritional forms, morbidity forms), compile weekly and monthly statistics for the outpatient unit, report this information to the line manager, and provide feedback on the results to the team. In this sense, this function includes all kinds of nutritional information that the nutritional supervisor has in his /her hands.
MSF Section/Context-Specific Accountabilities
- Ensure coordination of all activities in the camps and OTPs and Stabilisation Centres
- Evaluate gaps and provide training to key staff including health promotions.
- Ensure timely data collection and reporting with detailed analysis.
- Constantly consult with PMR to ensure activities are aligned with the desired goal.
Requirements
| Education | Bachelor’s degree in nutrition science or public health /Nurse with Nutrition Background with valid practicing License in Sudan |
| Experience | Desirable previous clinical supervision experience of at least two years. |
| Languages | Essential English and Arabic. But English is Mandatory for all supervisor position |
| Knowledge | Desirable computer literacy |
| Competencies | Results and Quality Orientation Teamwork and Cooperation Behavioral Flexibility Commitment to MSF Principles Stress Management |
How to Apply?
Interested candidates are requested to send their CVs & copy of educational and experience certificates to the Labour Office, Kosti, in a sealed envelope mentioning (MSF Spain – application for NUTRITION SUPERVISOR).
