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Assistant (e) Health / Nutrition

Counterpart International
📍 Kolda, Sénégal 🇸🇳CDI🗓️ 2 months ago

Job Description

Kolda, Sénégal
CDI

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TITLE: Health/Nutrition Assistant WASH PRACTICE AREA: Programme

Location

REPORTS TO: Kolda Program DATEDUE: 20 September 2026

START DATE: ASAP

SUMMARY:

Education / Qualifications

Counterpart International is recruiting a (01) Health/Nutrition Assistant for its McGovern-Dole Food for Education program by the USDA in Senegal. Under the direct supervision of the Head of Office/Head of Health and Nutrition, the Assistant (e) will contribute to the planning, implementation and monitoring of activities related to health, nutrition and WASH He/she will work in collaboration with team members, including teams based at Kolda and Sédhiou as well as decentralized educational and health services. In addition, she (he) will have to work in collaboration with other partners and key actors for the project and the teams of partner organizations. This position is based at Kolda.

Responsibilities

RÔLESRÖTHE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Main tasks and responsibilities

  • Contribute to planning for the implementation and monitoring of WASH nutrition health interventions in project areas consistent with approved work plans;

Other information

  • Support operational coordination with regional health departments, Health Districts, IEFs, AIs, DCMS, hygiene services and other institutional actors involved in the project activities;
  • Participate in the development of monthly activity plans, monitoring schedules and other tools necessary to implement activities with health districts and regional health directorates;
  • Support the School Medical Control Division in the preparation, organization, implementation and follow-up of teacher training on the SNE guide and “one Health”;
  • Support the planning and monitoring of educational animation cells focused on health, nutrition and the environment in collaboration with DCMS and IEF;
  • Contribute to the review and adaptation of training modules of awareness materials and monitoring tools on health, nutrition education, culinary techniques and WASH;
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of communication and awareness-raising plans aimed at improving food quality, hygiene practices and health-promoting behaviour;
  • Participate in regular monitoring of school health activities, hygiene promotion and food diversification based on local products in communities and intervention schools.

Main duties

  • Prepare and participate in field missions, joint supervisions, coordination meetings organized in the intervention areas
  • Develop mission reports,
  • Support routine vitamin A supplementation for preschool children in intervention regions in collaboration with the relevant technical services
  • Participate in the review of tools and management documents for the Health Nutrition WASH program;
  • Collaborate with the MEAL team to ensure the quality, completeness and use of data related to WASH nutrition interventions
  • monitoring and evaluation in health data management;
  • Prepare project activity reports, activity reports and monthly reports and submit them within the required timeframe to:

Candidate profile

  • A technical diploma specializing in nutrition or health/medicine (Bac +4 at least), with a specialization in nutrition or equivalent;
  • Good knowledge of approaches to health promotion, hygiene and sanitation nutrition in school and community settings, field supervision or outreach activities with school or community institutions
  • Have a good ability to plan, track activities and write activity reports
  • Be able to work closely with decentralized state services, education and health authorities
  • Have experience in organizing training, community animation;
  • Be available to make frequent trips in the areas of intervention of the project including SĂ©dhiou and Kolda

Experience

  • Experience in a development organization will be an asset
  • Experience in the field of action research and training will be an asset
  • Experience in rural areas will be an asset;
  • ĂŠbe equipped to develop pedagogical procedures and methodologies.
  • A mastery of the participatory approach to development, and other group dynamics techniques;
  • Ability to communicate in the national languages of the area of intervention.
  • Strategic vision and analytical capacity

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