Deputy Programme Manager - Nutrition and Health

Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger is the world’s hunger specialist and leader in a global movement that aims to end life-threatening hunger for good within our lifetimes. For 40 years, the humanitarian and development organization has been on the front lines, treating and preventing hunger across nearly 50 countries. It served more than 21 million people in 2018 alone.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Deputy Programme Manager - Nutrition and Health

Location: Sokoto

Employment Type: Full-Time

Reporting to: Nutrition and Health PM

Proposed start date: October 2026

Job Summary

• We are currently looking to fill the role of Deputy programme Manager – Nutrition and health to contribute to the to the successful implementation of nutrition and health program activities in Sokoto State through extending capacity building to nutrition and health officers, LGA PHC health facilities staffs in the program supported areas.
• The DPM will also oversee the implementation of nutrition and health programmed, complementary activities on nutrition and health, sensitization and counselling, active case finding and integration and referral with health, nutrition, FSL and WASH components of the project.

Key Responsibilities

Mission 1: Mapping of nutrition and health services and gaps in the targeted Local Governments:

The Deputy Manager (DPM) is responsible for:

• Carrying out LGA assessment.
• Determine the needs at the LGA primary health care department and health facilities.
• Ensure on-going high quality relationships with the LGAs, Health facilities and its representatives.

Tasks:

• Coordinate with the respective PMs / project coordinators (where applicable) to ensure that data generated from ACF supported health facilities is submitted to the LGA HMIS for compilation and utilization
• Update stakeholder contact information at state level and targeted local government area (LGA) for nutrition and health sector on a regular basis.
• Develop health facility matrix for tracking gaps in service provisions, HRH, supplies, technical capacities, information management and availability of policies / guidelines at health facility level
• Liaise with Nutrition and Health service delivery team; and keep them updated about the identified gaps on a regular basis
• Ensure a feedback mechanism is established-between health facility-LGA-state with active participation from State and LGA authorities
• Joint planning with state and LGA authorities to conduct review meetings and supportive supervision alongside project staff to monitor the quality of nutrition and health services
• Work with project staff and LGA counterparts to continually monitor the supply chain for nutrition and health supplies and make timely recommendations on how to address specific gaps sustainably

Mission 2: Establish and supervise activities in the framework of Project Design and Innovations:

The Deputy Programme Manager-Porridge mum is responsible for:

• Technical support and capacity building of local partners implementing the Porridge mom project.
• Management of the project cycle for porridge mum nutrition project.
• Ensure projects are implemented in line with donor proposals and requirements and in accordance with Action against Hunger, Country and international standards

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Ensure the local partner implements the porridge mom project inline with donor proposals and requirements and in accordance with Action against Hunger, country and international standards;
• Finalize and manage the update and implementation of the detailed Project(s) Implementation Plan (DIP);
• Develop detailed monthly / weekly implementation plans in collaboration with the local partner project staff in order to achieve the activities in the DIP;
• In collaboration with the Nutrition and Health PM and HOD, support the development of strategies addressing the problems linked to poor health and malnutrition in the Northeast region;
• Jointly with the SPHCDA and the LGA health authorities promoting and supervising high quality care for beneficiaries of the project;
• Through the local partner, support in the monitoring of community health and nutrition activities and ensure proper linkage and referral with the primary health care services supported by the project.
• Lead assessment, beneficiary identification and implementation of porridge mom in line with the project proposal and donor strategies through collaborating with FSL and H&N team;
• Initiate and oversee needs and technical assessments and analysis, as well as preparing the follow up reports in coordination with the Program Manager , Project Coordinator, HoD/DHoD Nutrition and Health, M&E HoD/DHoD and DCDs;
• In keeping with the policy of ACF - NIGERIA LTD/GTE as a learning organisation, contributing to building on good practice, experience, and assessments, and working with the health and nutrition officers to ensure proper documentation of all aspects of the nutrition and health interventions.

Mission 3: Establish training and skills development for Health Workers and LGA staffs:

The DPM is responsible for:

• Involving State and LGA in evaluating the skills and technical level of the teams in health facilities
• Consulting with LGAs/State to determine their training needs
• Proposing training plans to SPHCDA staffs at LGAs and health facilities.
• Developing the skills of Health workers across project supported LGAs.
• Ensuring, with the SPHCDA, the quality and appropriateness of the training programmes put in place

Tasks:

• Identifying the training needs of government staff having regard to the level of expertise within the SPHCDA.
• Proposing sequences of training sessions and integrating them into the working routine of the Health workers in the health facilities.
• Setting out the specifications of the training sessions to be put in place
• In collaboration with the DHODs, Identifying resource people in the SPHCDA to create training modules and their educational material, and contact them, whilst taking consideration throughout of the local cultural context
• In coordination with the DHODs, planning joint training sessions in the areas identified
• Training and monitoring the partner's teams of trainers
• In coordination with the DHOD, ensuring that the training content offered takes account of such issues as the protocols in line with the National standard protocols.
• In coordination with the nutrition and health teams, facilitating the organisation and execution of training programmes
• Carrying out on the spot as well as considered assessments and analyses of the training sessions undertaken (quality of the session(s), degree of retention= before and after testing)

Mission 4: Information management, reporting, coordination and representation:

The DPM is responsible for:

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