Project Officer - Nutrition

World Vision Kenya

Posted: Oct 14, 2026

Deadline: Not specified

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World Vision is an international Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation working in almost 100 countries world-wide to create lasting change in the lives of children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.

Project Officer - Nutrition

• Job Type Full Time
• Qualification BA/BSc/HND
• Experience 3 years
• Location Turkana
• Job Field Project and Program Management

Job Description:

To implement and monitor nutrition activities in emergency programs. He/she will be responsible for implementing Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition, Maternal infant and young child nutrition, Positive Hearth Deviance and other approaches which include Baby Friendly community initiatives, Family MUAC, IMAM Surge and capacity building of health workers, community health promoters and community leaders.

He/she will be responsible to ensure quality program implementation in line with the planned budget; monitor program effectiveness and support surveys and assessments. Work in close collaboration with and active involvement of the county and sub county health officials, health staff of the target health facilities and the communities.

Please Note: World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization with a mission centred on following Jesus Christ in service to the world´s most vulnerable children. Therefore, in all locations to the fullest extent legally permissible, the successful applicant will affirm our core documents, observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, serve at a high level of professional ethics, and strive to act in accordance with cultural sensitivities. Furthermore, regular attendance with team and office devotions, chapel, and prayer gatherings are expected in line with policies in the World Vision host location and its departments.

Job Responsibilities:

Programmatic and technical Implementation for nutrition projects

• Ensure all malnourished children, pregnant and lactating women are identified, admitted and discharged from IMAM programs as per national Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) guidelines
• Support the communities to identify Nutrition gaps and develop community led solutions during implementation of nutrition and livelihoods projects.
• Provide technical support to the Ministry of Health staff to be able to implement PD Hearth, BFCI, IMAM Surge and Family MUAC models at both County and Sub County level.
• Work closely with community Health promoters to mobilize communities to participate in nutrition project interventions
• Strengthening of community structures to ensure they receive appropriate health and nutrition services.
• Support Community health promoters to conduct household nutrition counselling for project beneficiaries at community level.
• Ensure effective integration of gender, child protection, disability, Christian commitment and advocacy into nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions.
• Integration of nutrition into livelihood interventions to ensure food security at household level.
• In liaison with project accountant ensure monthly tracking of project expenditure and manage work plans and budgets.

Quality assurance for programmatic Designs, Assessments, Monitoring and Evaluation processes

• Develop quality reports: weekly situation reports, monthly reports and quarterly reports as per WV and/donor(s) reporting guidelines
• In liaison with other project partners and MoH develop monitoring plan, analyse nutrition information from health information system and other sources to understand trends for timely decision making
• Document success stories, and best practices to demonstrate the impact created by WVK from the project implementation
• Monitor project implementation levels and report progress, impact and best practices.
• Work with M&E officer to develop ToRs for various activities that require external support and identify specific data requirements.
• Support MOH monitoring to ensure strengthened health systems and accurate reporting in the KHIS.
• Ensure timely analysis of monitoring data and dissemination to key stakeholders for management decision making.
• Support the implementation of processes to ensure quality of existing project data, and information collection.
• Ensure the project is compliant to the Humanitarian accountability requirements.
• Ensure Project alignment to the donor requirements and support office evaluation protocols and methodological tools.
• Ensure reporting to the CMAM database and PD Hearth database.

Advocacy, Engagement, Networking & Partnerships & Resource Acquisition

• Represent WVK in nutrition stakeholder meetings county and/or sub-county levels.
• Participate in advocacy activities to ensure resource allocation to nutrition by county governments.
• Engaging with MoH at County & Sub-County level to influence resource allocation nutrition
• Identify potential areas for fundraising and provide information to inform fund raising initiatives for health and nutrition, education, gender, child protection and disability at all levels.
• Identify potential areas for fundraising and provide information to inform fund raising initiatives for health and nutrition, education, gender, child protection and disability at all levels

Enhanced Empowerment, Documentation & Capacity Development

• Ensure capacity Building of government officers, community members and CBOs to enable them effectively manage and sustain Health and Nutrition interventions.
• Conduct training and sensitization of health facility staff and Community Health Promoters on PD Hearth, BFCI, MIYCN, IMAM, Family and micronutrients supplementation.
• Support the Sub-County and County nutrition officers to cond