Helen Keller International (HKI) - Indonesia
Position: Nutrition Technical Officer
Program(s): Nutrition, Agriculture, Food Security
Reports to: Nutrition Program Manager
Since the 1970s HKI has been working to establish sustainable evidence-based approaches to enhance health, nutrition, rehabilitation and education in Indonesia. HKI's programs in Indonesia engage all levels of the government health and education structure from national to village level. HKI provides services which are integrated into existing health and education systems by developing its human resources and infrastructure, conducting needs assessments, analyzing local characteristics to inform program design and implementation, training of personnel, providing basic equipment and medicines, delivering services, monitoring program progress and evaluating their impact.
HKI currently implements education, rehabilitation, eye care, health, and nutrition programs in 24 countries worldwide. Through 90 years of experience, HKI has developed particular expertise in large scale implementation of targeted interventions, development of government service delivery systems and comprehensive monitoring of program outcomes, such as policy developments, educational access, nutritional status, mortality and morbidity.
*II. **Position Description
Based in Soe, Timor Tengah Selatan District, Nusa Tenggara Timur, the Nutrition Technical Officer, will be responsible for the design, management, implementation and evaluation of the nutrition component of HKI Indonesia’s Homestead Food Production (HFP) program. S/he will assist Nutrition Program Manager in management of the field office. The Nutrition Technical Officer will report to the Nutrition Program Manager and collaborate closely with the Agricultural Technical Officer and other members of the HFP Soe and Jakarta teams.
*III. **Essential Job Functions
- Assist Nutrition Program Manager in ensuring effective project planning, implementation, evaluation and reporting of project in the field to achieve the objectives agreed to in grants and contracts for HKI Indonesia’s Homestead Food Production (HFP) project.
- Provide nutrition technical assistance to provincial and district government counterparts, non-governmental partners and other stakeholders.
- Design training programs (including need assessment, training curricula, lesson plans, and training materials) related to nutrition and lead the development of monitoring and evaluation plans following the trainings.
- Work with the Nutrition Program Manger and the Nutrition Field Educators to make sure that all Behavior Change Communications (BCC) materials have technically correct messages and in line with the government policies.
- Work with the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technical Officer in organizing and conducting research and surveys, in terms of recruiting survey teams, providing training to survey teams, and supervising survey teams during data collection period.
- Coordinate and manage the use of research data to develop new or refine existing BCC materials.
- Supervise the pre-testing and revision of all BCC materials developed in areas of nutrition and homestead food production
- Participate in the development and preparation of annual work plans, draft reports on HFP program, survey reports, factsheets, bulletins and other documents related HFP
- Manage day to day field office activities.
- Participate in new staff recruitment.
- Supervise HKI and NGO staff activities in the district
- Represent HKI in workshops/seminars and technical meetings on nutrition.
- Assist Nutrition Program Manager with other duties as needed.
*IV. **Qualifications and Experience*
- Master degree with strong back ground in nutrition program implementation is highly preferred. Bachelor degree in community nutrition with strong hands-on experience working in NTT will be considered
- At least 5 years of related field experience in community and public health nutrition (e.g. micronutrients, infant and young child feeding and women’s nutrition)
- Strong technical knowledge of nutrition programs/issues and BCC in Indonesia, particularly NTT
- Demonstrated ability to effectively interact and communicate with government, academia and other stakeholders in Indonesia
- Demonstrated ability to read, analyze and interpret complex documents and to prepare presentations and articles
- Excellent oral and written English
- Excellent oral and written Bahasa Indonesia
- Strong interpersonal skills in dealing with external contacts as well as internal colleagues
- Working knowledge of SPSS or other statistical analysis software
Applications
Please email a cover letter and CV in English to: esulistyani@hki.org
Ref.:* “HKI Nutrition Technical Officer” Application deadline: January 24, 2012.
*Contact:*
HKI Indonesia
Jl. Bungur Dalam 23 A/B
Kemang, Jakarta, 12730
Indonesia
Phone: +62 21 719 9163
Fax: +62 21 718 3804
*Only shortlisted candidates will be called for interview*
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