Health and Nutrition Officer
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Save the Children Nigeria is hiring a Health and Nutrition Officer based in Yobe to strengthen facility- and community-level systems for managing severe acute malnutrition and child illness. The role leads IMAM, IMCI, MIYCN-E, and MAMI programming under the Health and Nutrition Coordinator, providing technical support, on-the-job coaching, and integration with Ministry of Health and LGA partners.
- Full-time programme operations role based in Yobe, Nigeria
- Reports to the Health and Nutrition Coordinator; no direct reports
- Leads IMAM, IMCI, MIYCN-E, and MAMI interventions across supported health facilities
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Save the Children Nigeria is hiring a Health and Nutrition Officer based in Yobe to strengthen facility- and community-level systems for managing severe acute malnutrition and child illness. The role leads IMAM, IMCI, MIYCN-E, and MAMI programming under the Health and Nutrition Coordinator, providing technical support, on-the-job coaching, and integration with Ministry of Health and LGA partners.
- Full-time programme operations role based in Yobe, Nigeria
- Reports to the Health and Nutrition Coordinator; no direct reports
- Leads IMAM, IMCI, MIYCN-E, and MAMI interventions across supported health facilities
- Strengthens OTPs and Stabilization Centre linkages within target communities
- Works with MoH, LGA teams, health facility staff, and implementing partners
- Requires alignment with WHO and national nutrition and clinical guidelines
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Health and Nutrition Officer at Save the Children Nigeria
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Oct 15, 2026, 7:01 AM
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Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children is working in Nigeria because one in five children in Nigeria dies before their fifth birthday. About 40% of children miss out on school and have to work to survive while nearly 2 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related disease.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Health and Nutrition Officer
Job Identification: 17952
Location: Yobe
Employment Type: Full-Time
Job Category: Programme Operations
Reports to: Health and Nutrition Coordinator
Staff reporting to this post: None
Role Purpose
The role will focus on strengthening facility- and community-level systems for the early identification and management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM), supporting Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM), Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition in Emergencies (MIYCN-E), and Maternal and Infant Nutrition Assessment (MAMI) programming to achieve improved health and nutrition outcomes.
The Program Officer will provide technical support and lead the implementation of health and nutrition interventions within the project, ensuring that activities align with WHO and national guidelines, global best practices, and Save the Children’s clinical standards.
Scope of Role
The post holder will work under the direct supervision of the Health and Nutrition Coordinator and collaborate with relevant Ministry of Health (MoH) personnel, Local Government Area (LGA) teams, health facility staff, implementing partners, and other stakeholders to ensure effective delivery of health and nutrition interventions.
Key Areas of Accountability
Technical Support and Service Delivery
Facilitate the operationalization of Outpatient Therapeutic Programmes (OTPs) and MIYCN services in target communities, ensuring integration with existing Stabilization Centre services.
Lead the establishment and implementation of IMAM and IMCI services across supported health facilities in line with national guidelines.
Provide regular on-the-job coaching and mentoring for health workers to strengthen their capacity in IMCI, IMAM, disease surveillance, and the management of SAM with medical complications.
Ensure that children under five years of age, including those with acute malnutrition, are appropriately assessed and treated according to updated national and WHO protocols.
Support health facilities to maintain uninterrupted service delivery by monitoring stocks of medicines, nutrition commodities, and essential supplies.
Capacity Building and Supervision:
Support the planning and delivery of technical training on IMCI, IMAM, disease surveillance, MIYCN-E, and MAMI.
Facilitate supportive supervision and post-training follow-up to ensure that acquired skills are applied effectively in clinical practice.
Ensure that MoH and SCI staff use approved quality assessment tools and supervision checklists during facility visits.
Develop and share monthly supervision and monitoring plans, conduct regular facility visits, and track the progress of supervised staff.
Conduct health worker capacity assessments and identify training, coaching, and mentoring needs.
Monitoring, Reporting, and Data Management:
Compile monthly health and nutrition reports highlighting implementation progress, contextual changes, service quality, challenges, and proposed corrective actions.
Update and maintain the 5W/4W mapping of health and nutrition services at LGA level and share updates monthly with the Health and Nutrition Coordinator.
Track acute malnutrition screening data and update facility-level morbidity and disease surveillance reporting tools.
Collaborate with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team during assessments, ensuring quality data collection, documentation, and analysis.
Support MoH staff in accurately completing Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR), DHIS2, IMCI/IMAM registers, and other relevant reporting tools.
Coordination and Partnership:
Organize and participate in LGA-level coordination meetings and quarterly review workshops with implementing partners and government counterparts.
Contribute to project planning and budget phasing, particularly for maternal, newborn, and child health components.
Represent Save the Children International (SCI) at relevant sector coordination meetings and technical working groups when required.
Collaborate closely with the Ministry of Health and LGA teams in supportive supervision, joint planning, and implementation of health and nutrition activities.
Logistics, Finance, and Administration:
Monitor supervisee attendance and validate timesheets to support accurate payment processing.
Prepare monthly supply requests and submit them to the line manager.
Liaise with the Human Resources team to support staff performance reviews, appraisals, and orientation on SCI values, safeguarding, and the Code of Conduct.
Promote the rational use of medical equipment, medicines, nutrition commodities, and other supplies across supported health facilities.
Identify health facility-level supply, human resource, and logistical needs and report them to the appropriate personnel for timely action.
Safeguarding and Accountability:
Report any safeguarding concerns or suspected incidents promptly through SCI’s established reporting mechanisms and comply with the organization’s safeguarding policies, Code of Conduct, and mandatory reporting procedures.
Maintain confidentiality and respect the privacy, dignity, and rights of children, caregivers, and other programme participants.
Ensure that health workers and relevant project personnel understand and comply with safeguarding requirements during service delivery and community engagement.
Promote and uphold child safeguarding and protection standards across all health and nutrition activities, ensuring that children and vulnerable beneficiaries are treated with dignity and protected from abuse, exploitation, neglect, and harm.
Requirements
- Degree in Nutrition, Registered Nurse/Midwife or B. Sc. Nursing/Midwife, Health education, Medicine & Surgery (MBBS), or any other relevant health related field.
- Experience and Skills
- Extensive experience in in stakeholders’ management, participation in TWGs, and other coordination meetings.
- Fluency in written and spoken English and at least one major Nigerian Language
- Ability and willingness to travel frequently, live and work in difficult physical conditions in an area of potential insecurity.
- Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills
- Commitment to working in deep field locations
- Extensive knowledge of Nutrition and Health interventions.
- Significant knowledge of humanitarian and development systems, institutions and donors and best practices in emergency management
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s Vision, Mission, Values and Practices
- Recommended a minimum of 2 to 3 years’ experience in a humanitarian and development environment, including significant field operations experience and experience working with MOH.
- Ability to analyse information, evaluate options and to think and plan strategically.
- Behaviours (Values in Practice):
- Accountability:
- holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
- holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Ambition:
- future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
- sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Collaboration:
- builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
- Creativity:
- develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- willing to take disciplined risks.
- Integrity:
- honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
- How to Apply
- Interested and qualified candidates should:
- Click here to apply online
- Application Deadline:
- 22nd October, 2026, 02:00 AM.
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