Job Title: Health and Nutrition Coordinator
Job location: Gaziantep-Turkey
Report to: Programs Manager
Job Code : TR:17
ABOUT MEDGLOBAL
MedGlobal is a global humanitarian non-profit organization providing medical and health education services to people in need, including refugees and displaced persons, in disaster and underserved regions. The organization is composed of medical and public health professionals of diverse backgrounds.
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CODE OF CONDUCT
MedGlobal Code of Conduct reflects the profession’s core set of beliefs and values of care, respect, trust, and integrity. These beliefs and values are fundamental to MedGlobal employees, volunteers, interns, consultants, officers’ coordinators, and directors to guide their practice and conduct.
The Code is organized into categories, as follows:
- Always act with fairness, honesty, integrity, and openness; respect the opinions of others and treat all with equality and dignity without regard to gender, race, color, creed, ancestry, place of origin, political beliefs, religion, marital status, disability, age, or sexual orientation.
- Provide a positive and valued experience for those receiving service within and outside MedGlobal.
CHILD PROTECTION POLICY
Child abuse in all forms is unacceptable to MedGlobal, which recognizes its responsibility to protect children from harm in all areas of its work.
MedGlobal is committed to ensuring a child-safe environment and is applying a zero-tolerance approach towards any kind of child abuse and exploitation.
DISCRIMINATION, ABUSE AND HARASSMENT POLICY
MedGlobal provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and expressly prohibits and will not tolerate any form of discrimination, abuse, harassment (sexual or otherwise), based upon race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, citizenship status, disability, or military status. MedGlobal employees and related personnel must under no circumstances take part in any form of discrimination, harassment, or abuse (physical, sexual or verbal), intimidation or exploitation, or in any other way infringe the rights of others inside or outside the organization.
Responsibility
The Health and Nutrition Coordinator has the following responsibilities and duties:
- Create a complete work plan and budget plan for health and nutrition activities and verify that planned activities are carried out in accordance with the work plan and the budget, in accordance with Medglobal standards, and that program expenditure is in accordance with budgets and pipelines.
- Encourage and support program/logistics/administrative/finance staff in their work by providing proper training, mentoring, and supervision by technical leads.
- Manage employee recruiting and training, conduct performance monitoring in coordination with HR, and ensure that standards and regulations are followed.
- Work closely with logistics to ensure that nutrition program supplies are not interrupted.
- Organize and monitor any additional project-related procurements. Capacity Building and Coordination
- Assess nutrition staff training needs; develop a training program to meet these needs; conduct nutrition training for project nutrition staff and MOH counterparts implementing nutrition programs, focusing on all aspects of community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), IYCF, and health with the Health and Nutrition Supervisors’ support.
- Assist in the creation/adaptation of nutrition education training manuals and facilitator’s guides based on existing national nutrition guidelines and curricula, as well as training follow-up.
- Represent Medglobal in Health and Nutrition coordination meetings with government bodies, international agencies, other NGOs, and donors at the regional and district levels.
- Establish and maintain smooth relations and open collaboration with government and local stakeholders; and serve as the health and nutrition resource person Implementation and Development
- Identify potential nutrition and nutrition-related projects for development and lead on the concept note or proposal development while liaising with interested partners and stakeholders.
- Plan and conduct nutritional assessments and surveys following the nationally approved survey protocol and feed assessments results into proposals.
- Ensure proper functioning of reporting systems for regular assessment, monitoring and evaluation of the program against its objectives and expected results. And conduct critical monitoring of all aspects of Health, CMAM and IYCF programs, and identify areas of concern.
- Develop, implement, and evaluate quality assurance measures and ensure appropriate follow up.
- Prepare and provide regular monthly progress reports in coordination with the M&E Officer
- Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed above are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all inclusive.
Requirements and Skills:
The Health and Nutrition Coordinator should have the following skills, education, and experience:
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, Degree in health or nutrition-related fields is a plus.
- At least 4 years of NGO experience in multiple countries focused on principles and guidelines of program planning and implementation.
- Experience with personnel management including supervision, training, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Experiencing with project proposals writing, budgeting, and reporting methods
- Experience with computer systems, data records, and related software applications
- Excellent attention to detail and strong organizational and project coordination skills
- Maintain flexibility to take on added responsibility when needed.
- An extensive knowledge of the UN and INGOs funding and partnership system
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Encourage Female strongly to apply.
How to apply
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The applications will be reviewed and candidates will be selected irrespective of the expiration of the application period.
