Nutritionist at Alight: (Deadline 15 January 2024)

Nutritionist at Alight: (Deadline 15 January 2024)

Vacancy – Nutritionist 

ALIGHT works with its partners and constituencies to provide opportunities and expertise to refugees, displaced people and host communities – to better survive conflicts and crisis, and to rebuild lives of dignity, health, security and self-sufficiency. ALIGHT presently works in and with partners in seventeen countries globally. ALIGHT has consistently operated in Rwanda since the year 1994, and today has a strong and committed team of over eight hundred personnel who include full time staff, community mobilizers and incentive workers– implementing programs in Primary Health Care, Reproductive Health, HIV and Nutrition; also, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Shelter and general Infrastructure, Livelihoods/Economic strengthening, and Sexual and Gender Based Violence Prevention/ Protection. Our work in Rwanda currently covers all the refugee locations and their kind Rwandan-host communities. And we are always looking to expand and, jointly with our partners, offer lasting impact with and for the communities we serve! ALIGHT is looking for a qualified, self-driven and committed individual to join its team as Nutritionist with fix term contract to March 2024. 

PRIMARY PURPOSE:

Based at the refugee camp, the Nutritionist is responsible for support to planning, implementation and monitoring as well as reporting on nutrition programming at respective assigned Camp or site. H/She is also in charge of screening of patients, facilitating prevention activities and conduct follow-up on treatment and nutrition support.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Liaise regularly with Nutrition Coordinator to ensure proper implementation of Nutrition Education and Counselling activities within the camp including but not limited to selection and training of volunteer nutrition animators, identification and engagement of relevant stakeholders, delivery of awareness raising activities, support to nutrition animators, and monitoring and evaluation;
• Liaise with Nutrition Coordinator, community health workers and other partners to ensure harmonized messages across the camp;
• Conduct nutritional screening in coordination with site level and nutrition staff;
• Build the capacity of Community Health Workers on identification and treatment malnourished children, pregnant and lactating women at risk of delivering malnutrition, and other vulnerable groups;
• Monitoring, compile, submit, and analyze monthly, quarterly and annual data from the nutrition sector, support nutrition surveys, analyze survey data and implement action plans based upon data, supervised by nutrition coordinator;
• When necessary, represent ALIGHT in sector meeting and communities’ nutrition information to donors. Leadership, government bodies, and coordinating bodies;
• Conduct anemia prevention awareness sessions; Facilitate access to treatment and effective follow up anemia cases and conduct home visits;
• Follow up anemia cases feeding program as part of treatment;
• Providing nutritional counselling and advice to clients;
• Perform any other duties assigned by ALIGHT Coordinator and Site Manager, or any other ALIGHT senior Manager.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• A1 in Nutrition or other health-related field from a recognized university preferred;
• Relevant training in food and diets or experience in supplementary or therapeutic feeding programs is an added advantage;
• Previous 2 years’ experience in nutrition in a low-resource, fast-paced setting, working with vulnerable/displaced persons;
• Knowledge of Nutrition protocols, including SPHERE standards, WHO protocol, and Rwandan MoH Nutrition standards;
• Experience in community health education and writing reports to high technical standard required;
• Excellent organizational, administrative and Management skills;
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment;
• Experience in managing and working with multicultural staff;
• Ability to motivate and council field staff, volunteers and community members, within a complex emergency environment;
• Experience in rural health center/ hospital setting;
• Kinyarwanda, English, and French oral/writing skills, Kiswahili oral skills also preferred. 

KEY BEHAVIORS & ABILITIES:

• Commitment to personally champion ALIGHT’s program vision and mission and inspire others to do the same;
• Ability to create self-reliance among refugees;
• Must have cross-cultural and strong interpersonal skills to work with refugees and vulnerable persons;
• Punctual at his/her duty station;
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment;
• Ability to coordinate with other health sector staff in a diverse environment;
• Ability to work under minimal supervision;
• Respectful and willing to support others;
• Confident in carrying out his/her tasks;
• Ability to maintain patient confidentiality;
• Ability and willingness to live and work in a remote, low-resource setting;
• Solution, service and support-oriented attitude and work ethic; and a willingness to guide colleagues and charges towards exploring options and solutions, while assuring fidelity to expected policies and compliance;

APPLICATION GUIDELINES : Interested and qualifying candidates should submit applications to ALIGHT Rwanda Country Director – to include 1 page Cover Letter, an updated CV (max. 3 pages), and three names (plus titles & contacts) of relevant professional referees, to include most current Employer/ Supervisor ( All in one document) – to the following email address only: [email protected] with the position applied for CLEARLY indicated in the subject line. The deadline for submission of applications is January 15^th, 2024 at 16:00hrs. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Alight is an Equal Opportunity Employer offering employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, citizenship, physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status.  Alight complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.