Position Title: Food and Nutrition Security Interns
Location: Nutrition and Health Program Plus -Busia, Tharaka Nithi, Samburu, Kitui and Marsabit
Project Description: Nutrition and Health Program
plus
Kenya goal is to increase access and demand for nutrition services and
improve food and nutrition security, as well as commodity management
support.
At national level Nutrition and Health Program
plus aims to
expand Nutrition Assessment Counseling and Support (NACS) services
beyond HIV, offering technical and financial support to roll-out NACS to
include High Impact Nutrition Interventions (HINI).
To help achieve this, national and sub-national levels will be
engaged to create a heightened profile for nutrition and strengthen
budgeting, planning and monitoring and evaluation (M&E).
Nutrition and Health Program
plus will provide commodity
management support for vulnerable populations following PEPFAR Food and
Nutrition guidance and be expanded at national level to reach additional
clients. A critical element of this work will involve coordination with
and strengthening of existing USAID/Kenya and East Africa efforts.
Job Summary: The Food and Nutrition Interns will work as
apprentices. They will work closely with the Deputy Chief of Party,
Agriculture Specialist, Nutrition Specialist, M&E Specialist,
Sub/County Agriculture and Livestock Officers, Sub/County Nutrition
Coordinator, implementing partners, Department of Education, and other
NHPplus staff to provide technical support for community NACS and
agri-nutrition activities designed to contribute towards reduction in
stunting.
These activities shall include increasing market access and
consumption of diverse and quality foods while embracing improved
maternal, infant and young child diets, as well as increasing resilience
of vulnerable households and communities.
Essential Job Functions: Duties and Responsibilities:
- Identifying and promoting/supporting/implementing:
- investments that target vulnerable groups to increase food
production for consumption, and increase women’s empowerment, including
assets, use of energy and time, and income
- livelihood opportunities that promote gender equity in combination with achieving nutrition objectives
- community driven development approaches to enhance social, economic,
and environmental resilience, through effectively linking vulnerable
clients with food security, livelihood and economic support.
- Promoting and strengthening linkages between agriculture and health
frontline service providers to work towards improving food security and
nutrition at community and household levels.
- Establishing linkages and facilitating collaboration across relevant
sectors, departments, public and private partners and stakeholders:
- to scale up targeted nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive
services appropriate to local needs and contexts through a gender lens
- for sharing information, planning, programming and service provision at both health facility and community levels
- Promoting: awareness and consumption of diversified, nutrient dense,
fortified and nutritionally adequate foods; High Impact Nutrition
Interventions (HINI) during the 1000-days window of opportunity and
among women and youth; agri-food and nutrition sensitive technologies;
best practices for food preparation & utilization; and energy &
time saving technologies
- Supporting implementation of the community approach for Nutrition
Assessment Counselling and Support (NACS), Integrated Community
Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) and Maternal Infant and Young
Child Nutrition (MIYCN)
- Coordinating capacity building and technical support on agri-foods
and nutrition issues including nutrition sensitive technologies, dietary
diversification and nutrient dense diets
- Promoting food safety including appropriate methods of handling, preservation, processing, storage and utilization of agri-foods
- Promoting/supporting water and sanitation activities
- Executing any other activities and strategies based on the approved NHPplus work plan.
Minimum Requirements Standards:
- University degree in Nutrition, Home Economics or other relevant disciplines and certified by the KNDI Council.
- (A master’s degree in above mentioned disciplines or Bachelors
degree with three years research experience, will be an added advantage)
- Field experience is essential as this position will be based in the
five focus counties of Busia, Tharaka Nithi, Samburu, Kitui and
Marsabit.
- (Ability to speak local language will be an added advantage)
How to Apply
Interested candidates who meet the requirements are invited to send their CV and cover letter to
jobs@lanxafrica.co.ke clearly indicating the job title on the subject line on or before 25th June 2018.