Senior Nutrition Officer
Job purpose:
The Senior Nutrition Officer is responsible for the oversight of the direct implementation of GOAL’s nutrition activities in Northern Syria. The Senior Nutrition Officer, together with the Nutrition Field Officers and other members of the Nutrition team, will develop the key messages to provide technical support to beneficiaries to contribute to the reduction of malnutrition and the realisation of positive nutrition outcomes for the projects. The aim is to build capacity in people which will allow them to understand the causes, prevention methods and treatment of malnutrition for U5s and PLW, at household level. The Senior Nutrition Officer will also be responsible for ensuring nutrition service mapping in GOAL and its partners area of operation is updated regularly. The Senior Nutrition Officer in coordination with the Nutrition team will use the referral mechanism between GOAL’s other programmes e.g. food security and nutrition and between GOAL and partners or external actors.