Nutrition Intern

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

1.      Develop an understanding of community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) and national nutrition guidelines.

2.      Learn about screening for acute malnutrition mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), weight, height/length, and other appropriate methods under supervision.

3.      Understand the identification and referral of children with severe and moderate acute malnutrition.

4.      Gain knowledge of nutrition screening, counselling, and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices.

5.      Learn about nutrition registers, reporting tools, data collection, and data quality.

1.      Observe the management of nutrition supplies, stock records, and storage practices.

2.      Understand the integration of nutrition services primary healthcare (PHC), immunization, and community mobilization.

Participate in learning sessions and supportive supervision visits under the guidance of the designated supervisor.

Organizational Responsibilities:

Policy Adherence

·        Adhere to the Code of Conduct, maintain humanitarian principles and respect international humanitarian law.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:

·        Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within International Medical Corps and amongst beneficiaries served by International Medical Corps.

Compliance and Ethics:

·        Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.  Conducts work with the highest level of integrity.

Safeguarding

It is all staff’s shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly crisis-affected and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children and adults at risk; and any form of trafficking in persons. 

Qualifications:

• Completion of 12th grade is required.
• The candidate Fluency in both Dari and Pashto is required.

The candidate must be a resident of Paktika Province.

Competency:

Fluency in local languages is required.

Submission Guideline:

Dear Applicant,

International Medical Corps never asks job applicants for a fee, payment, or other monetary transaction. If you are asked for money in connection with this recruitment, please report to International Medical Corps at the website provided at the end of this document. 

Please note that:

·        IMC commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.

·        IMC will conduct his recruitment on the base of need only.

·        Only HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.

·        IMC may keep data of your application for its pool of candidate and might propose you other position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.

·        Only short-listed candidates whose application responds to the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.

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Equal Opportunities:

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status as a veteran.

Misconduct Disclosure Scheme:

All offers of employment at International Medical Corps are subject to satisfactory references and background checks. The International Medical Corps participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme from the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR). In accordance with this, we will request information from an applicant’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Submission Email:

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