Health and Nutrition Officer (3 Positions)

About the Role – Role Purpose

The Health and Nutrition Officer is responsible for the day-to-day implementation, coordination, and supervision of integrated Health and Nutrition programme activities within assigned operational areas. The role ensures quality, timely, and accountable delivery of lifesaving primary health care, SRH, nutrition, and community health interventions in close coordination with consortium partners, government health structures, and other sectors (including WASH, MHPSS, Protection, and ESNFI) to ensure an integrated and holistic humanitarian response.

 

Specific Duties and responsibilities

Programme Implementation and Technical Delivery

• Lead and oversee the day-to-day implementation of integrated Health and Nutrition activities in line with approved work plans, SOPs, and donor requirements.
• Support restoration and strengthening of essential primary and secondary health services, including SRH services aligned with MISP .
• Support implementation of integrated nutrition services (IMAM/CMAM), including OTP/SC services, MAMI, and IYCF-E interventions in collaboration with health facilities and community platforms.
• Ensure timely last-mile delivery of essential medicines, nutrition supplies (including therapeutic milks), and health commodities to targeted health facilities.
• Support outbreak preparedness and response, including disease surveillance, immunization campaigns, and community-based health promotion.

 

Capacity Building and Quality Improvement

• Provide on-the-job training, mentorship, and supportive supervision for health workers, HEWs, and community health actors.
• Support digital health reporting systems (e.g., DHIS2/PIMS) and strengthen routine data quality and reporting mechanisms.
• Contribute to minor rehabilitation and functionality improvements of selected health facilities, including biomedical equipment maintenance and IPC strengthening.

Community Health and Demand Creation

• Support community sensitization and health promotion activities focusing on MNCH, SRH service uptake, nutrition services, and referral pathways.
• Strengthen community-based screening (e.g., Family MUAC) and early detection of malnutrition and maternal/child health risks.
• Promote integrated referral systems between community, primary health facilities, and secondary hospitals, including support for referral tracking and patient transport coordination where applicable.

Coordination and Multi-Sector Integration

• Actively coordinate with consortium partners and other sectors (WASH, MHPSS, Protection, ESNFI) to ensure integrated service delivery at facility and community levels.
• Collaborate with WASH teams to ensure IPC, water supply, sanitation, and hygiene standards are maintained in health facilities.
• Work closely with MHPSS teams to integrate psychosocial support into health service delivery points and referral systems.
• Coordinate with Protection actors to ensure safe referral pathways for GBV survivors and vulnerable groups accessing health services.
• Participate in joint planning, assessments, monitoring missions, and multi-sector coordination meetings at field level.

 

Monitoring, Reporting, and Accountability

• Conduct regular field monitoring visits to assess progress, quality of services, and community feedback.
• Prepare and submit timely weekly and monthly narrative and quantitative reports.
• Support needs assessments and program learning exercises.
• Ensure accountability mechanisms are in place and community feedback is systematically captured and addressed.

 

Logistics and Resource Management

• Coordinate closely with logistics teams for procurement, transportation, and distribution of health and nutrition supplies.
• Ensure efficient and transparent use of resources in line with organizational policies and donor compliance requirements.

Safeguarding and Organizational Values

• Uphold and promote organizational values including safeguarding, accountability, equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Ensure all activities are implemented in a safe, ethical, and conflict-sensitive manner.
• Participate in emergency preparedness and response activities as required.

Gender Equity 

• Demonstrate understanding of Concern Worldwide Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy.
• Contribute to ensuring that Concern Worldwide Ethiopia is a place where men and women are treated equally and with dignity and respect.
• Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities.

Emergency response

Concern Worldwide Ethiopia is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike, this role may be required to actively participate in the response, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objectives.

Safeguarding

• Post holder must be able to seek appropriate advice, report concerns, and be confident to ensure that they have been understood.
• Understand Concern Worldwide structures and arrangements.
• Work and practice in a manner that seeks to reduce the risk of abuse, harm or neglect.

Accountability

Concern Worldwide, and its commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS):

• As relevant within this role, actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle (planning, implementation, M&E).
• Contribute to ensuring that the Feedback, Complaints & Response Mechanism (FCRM) is functional and accessible, that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed – with relevant staff whenever appropriate.
• Contribute to the effective dissemination of information about the FCRM, safeguarding and expected staff behaviour among programme participants and communities (when this is feasible and relevant).

Person Specification:

Essential knowledge, skills and experience

• Bachelor of Science  (BSc) degree in Public Health or Nursing with 3-4 years relevant experience .
• Proven experience in implementation of integrated Health and Nutrition programmes in humanitarian or emergency settings.
• Strong technical knowledge of SRH, IMAM/CMAM, MHPSS integration, and primary health care systems.
• Experience working with government health systems, NGOs, and multi-sectoral consortiums.
• Strong coordination, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in complex, insecure, and fast-changing environments.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications and basic health data systems (e.g., DHIS2).
• Fluency in English; knowledge of local language is an asset.

Competencies

Candidates are expected to demonstrate abilities in the following priority competency areas (highlight 3-4 competencies in bold as appropriate):

 

 

Important information:

Concern has an organizational Code of Conduct with three Associated Policies: The Programme Participant Protection Policy, the Child Safeguarding Policy, and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible here. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organizations, and the standards of behavior expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organization to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in their work, in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment.

By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Consequently, working or volunteering with Concern may be subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.

 

During this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.

What we offer

• A competitive salary and benefit package
• Excellent medical benefits (100% cover including dependents)
• 20 days annual leave
• 26 weeks (paid) maternity leave, 18 weeks (unpaid) parental leave