Description

Position Title: Health & Nutrition Assistant

Activation Date: 19 October, 2025   Announced Date: 19 October, 2025   Expire Date: 22 October, 2025

Job Location: Herat

Nationality: Afghan

Category: Health Care

Employment Type: Full Time

Salary: As per organization's salary scale

Vacancy Number: OCCD/HERAT/001

No. Of Jobs: 1

City: Herat

Organization: OCCD

Years of Experience: Experience requirement 2 years relevant experience

Contract Duration: 2 Months with possibility of extension

Gender: Male

Education: Education requirement Graduated from Medical Faculty

Close date: 2025-10-22

About OCCD:

Organization for Community Coordination and Development (OCCD) established and registered with Ministry of Economy in 2013, is a non-profit, non-governmental, non-political and independent organization. OCCD works in partnership with Government, development and implementing partners in Health, Education, Agriculture and Livestock, Research and Development

Job Description:

1. Ensure quality of health and nutrition activities (screening for children under five, Growth monitoring, IYCF, IMAM, OPD-MAM, OPD-SAM, and MAM BPW, OPD, MCH, and EPI in target HFs.

2. Provision of health and nutrition support for HFs on OPD-SAM and OPD-MAM, Services in target together with the MHNTs or Health Facilities.

3. Ensure quality of work (Health and Nutrition) individual level and community level (CHWs) in the field.

4. Supportive supervision from the HFs to ensure the quality of performance and doing job assessment to increase capacity building of HFs staff.

5. Following and conducting the training which targeted area in the project.

6. Coordinate with relevant departments and stakeholders to ensure timely response needs.

7. Ensure that community nutrition health and interventions (MUAC screening and Referral of malnourished children, IYCF and Critical diseases, and hygiene promotion are integrated.

8. Build the capacity of HFs staff by providing on-the-job training on IMAM activities.

9. Support quality data collection of activities conducted in the HFs.

10.Promote increasing awareness of appropriate health and nutrition behaviors in the project 11.Ensure quality and timely reporting on all areas of implementation.

12.Liaise closely with the MEAL team to understand the project outcomes.

13.Support the development of case studies and success stories from programmed implementation.

14.Any other additional responsibility as communicated by the supervisor

Job Requirements:

 At least 2 years’ experience in the provision of BPHS/Nutrition services.

Good report writing skills.

Ability to engage with different stakeholders and partners in the project site.

Must have good attention to detail, all work must be checked.

Graduated from medical faculty or any other related field

Submission Guideline:

Interested candidates should submit their resumes along with the cover letter to recruitment-af@occd.org.af

PLEASE REMEMBER TO WRITE THE VACANCY#, POSITION, AND PROVINCE IN THE SUBJECT OF YOUR EMAIL. NOTE: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Submission Email:

recruitment-af@occd.org.af