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Job Title: Deputy Program Manager, Nutrition and Health
Location
Jigawa
Job Field
Medical, Health, Safety
Job Detail
The Deputy Program Manager, Nutrition and Health role will focus on the delivery of nutrition communication interventions. From 2013-2017, CDGP will provide 60,000 pregnant women and mothers with children under two with unconditional cash transfers and nutrition behaviour change communication training to contribute to the eradication of extreme hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Northern Nigeria.
Summary of Key Objectives
To assist in the development and implementation of an appropriate nutrition focused BCC and IYCF methodology
Collaborate with health centres and other nutrition focused stakeholders in order to successfully carry out CDGP activities.
Represent ACF externally in relevant local and state level forums and technical working groups
Qualifications & Essential Skills
Bachelor degree in health, nutrition, nursing or related field. Higher level degree preferred.
Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and culturally sensitive
Excellent communication, writing and analytical skills
Proven ability to translate evaluated results into learning strategies.
Experience in monitoring and evaluating donor i.e. USAID, ECHO, DFID, CIDA funded activities
Skills on statistical and other software MS Excel, SPSS, SPHINX, STATA, EPI Info, ENA for SMART, GIS, etc.
Fluency in Hausa and English
Microsoft Office Skills Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word
Experience in humanitarian PQA or M & E.
Experience in designing and leading internal and external evaluation.
Experience designing and leading capacity building and training for national teams.
Familiarity with nutrition, healthcare and systems.
Preferred
Experience and good knowledge of North-western Nigeria culture
Female Hausa speaker
Previous experience with food security and livelihoods programming.
Previous experience managing cash based interventions i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers
Previous experience with ACF
Interested Candidates should send CV and Cover Letter to recruitment.ng@acf-international.org
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