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Nutritionist
Nutritionist
2025-12-20
Job Description – Nutritionist
Project: oPt, Humanitarian Fund
Donor: OCHA
Location: Gaza Strip
Contract Type: Full-time Project-Based
Reports to: Technical Director
1. Job Purpose Summary & Objectives
The Nutritionist will play a core role in ensuring that the proposed gardening and food-production interventions translate into measurable dietary improvements among targeted households and community-led initiatives. Working directly with vulnerable families, farmers, community groups, and PARC agronomists, the Nutritionist will design and deliver nutrition-sensitive agriculture, promote dietary diversification, and support safe food handling, in alignment with the Food Security Sector’s priority of improving diet diversity through gardening initiatives.
The position aims to:
- Improve the nutritional status and dietary diversity of targeted households.
- Link home gardening to nutrition outcomes through tailored guidance and follow-up.
- Ensure that households apply safe, healthy, and culturally appropriate food practices.
- Conduct awareness sessions, develop nutrition materials, and contribute to MEAL data collection.
2. Roles and Responsibilities
- Lead all nutrition-related components of the home-gardening intervention.
- Ensure integration of nutrition-sensitive approaches into agronomic activities.
- Conduct household-level assessments on dietary practices and nutritional needs.
- Provide tailored technical advice to households to maximize the nutritional benefits of garden production.
- Support the design and delivery of community-level nutrition education.
- Work closely with agronomists, MEAL teams, and community focal points.
- Ensure all activities comply with safeguarding, PSEA, Partners, and OCHA HF accountability standards.
3. Main Tasks & Duties
A. Nutrition Assessment & Planning
- Conduct initial assessments on household dietary patterns, food access constraints, and nutritional risks.
- Identify nutritionally vulnerable groups (children, pregnant and lactating women, elderly).
- Analyze dietary diversity indicators and contribute to baseline and PDM tools.
B. Nutrition-Sensitive Gardening Support
- Translate gardening inputs into practical nutritional benefits (e.g., recommended varieties for micronutrient gaps, seasonal consumption patterns).
- Provide tailored household advice on Crop selection for maximum dietary diversity, Balanced meal planning using home-grown produce, and Safe storage and preservation of vegetables.
C. Community Education & Behaviour Change
- Deliver nutrition awareness sessions on:
- Healthy diets during crises
- Infant and young child feeding (IYCF)
- Anaemia prevention
- Vegetable-based food preparation
- Food safety and hygiene
- Develop culturally appropriate IEC materials (leaflets, posters, key messages).
- Support community-led initiatives in creating nutrition-promoting activities (demonstrations, cooking sessions, etc.).
D. Monitoring, Reporting & Accountability
- Support MEAL teams in monitoring diet diversity and nutrition outcomes.
- Collect field data for Process monitoring, PDM visits, and Beneficiary feedback.
- Document challenges affecting dietary intake (water scarcity, food availability, household constraints).
- Contribute to monthly reports, donor updates, and case studies.
E. Coordination & Compliance
- Coordinate with Partner, PARC agronomists, Food Security Sector partners, and Protection and WASH clusters when relevant.
- Ensure adherence to OCHA HF accountability and reporting standards, PARC safeguarding and PSEA policies, and Humanitarian principles.
4. Required Academic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in nutrition, Public Health, pharmacy, Dietetics, or related field.
- Certification in community nutrition, IYCF, or food safety is desirable.
5. Required Experience
- Minimum 3–5 years of experience in nutrition programming, preferably in humanitarian or crisis contexts.
- Experience conducting community-level nutrition education and behavior change activities.
- Prior experience working with agriculture–nutrition linkages, home gardening, or food security interventions is highly preferred.
- Experience working in Gaza’s humanitarian context and with INGOs/NGOs is an asset.
6. Required Skills (Technical, Behavioural, Computer)
Technical Skills
- Strong knowledge of Nutrition assessment tools, Dietary diversity indicators, IYCF practices, and Micronutrient needs and food-based recommendations.
- Ability to design and deliver nutrition education sessions for diverse groups.
- Understanding of nutrition-sensitive agriculture.
- Clear understanding of food safety, hygiene, and storage methods.
Behavioural & Soft Skills
- Strong communication and facilitation skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and in highly challenging field conditions.
- Empathy, patience, cultural sensitivity.
- Strong coordination and teamwork abilities.
- Integrity, accountability, and commitment to humanitarian principles.
- Respect for confidentiality and safeguarding protocols.
Computer Skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook).
- Ability to work with Kobo or other digital data collection tools.
- Ability to communicate via WhatsApp and online platforms for remote coaching.
7. Other Requirements Languages
Arabic: Required (native).
English: Good command (written & spoken).
Work Environment
- Extensive fieldwork across Gaza, the Middle Area, and Khan Younis.
- Working in a highly dynamic, volatile humanitarian context.
- Some remote support may be required during access restrictions.
Safeguarding & PSEA
- Commitment to PARC’s and Partners’ safeguarding standards.
- Zero tolerance for Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA).
- Participation in mandatory safeguarding training.
Equal Opportunity
PARC is an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified individuals—including women, persons with disabilities, and members of vulnerable groups—are strongly encouraged to apply.