Senior Project Officer – Emergency Health, Nutrition, and Cash Transfer at Catholic Relief

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is an international non-governmental organization supporting relief and development work in over 99 countries around the world. CRS programs assist persons on the basis of need, regardless of creed, ethnicity or nationality and works through local church and non-church partners to implement its programs. CRS has been helping po...

 

Senior Project Officer – Emergency Health, Nutrition, and Cash Transfer

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience5 years
  • LocationIsiolo
  • Job FieldMedical / Healthcare  , Project Management 

Roles and Key Responsibilities

Capacity Building

  • Provide county-level technical leadership in implementing emergency child health and nutrition actions.
  • Build capacity of CRS staff and stakeholders on MPCA, child health and nutrition emergency response, and related livelihood interventions (IMAM, MIYCN).
  • Oversee capacity strengthening of the health workforce on IMAM.
  • Participate in and provide technical leadership in emergency coordination meetings and technical working groups with County/Sub-County HMTs and other stakeholders.

Supportive Supervision & Quality Improvement

  • Collaborate with Local Implementing Partners in MPCA implementation.
  • Ensure quality of county-level child health and nutrition emergency response actions.
  • Lead quality improvement initiatives and learning exchanges among GOK and stakeholders.
  • Conduct supportive supervision and field monitoring visits, providing mentoring and technical assistance.
  • Organize and facilitate review meetings on child health and nutrition emergency response actions.

County Government Engagement & Representation

  • Lead county engagement and represent CRS in Emergency Nutrition Coordination Forums, County Steering Group meetings, Nutrition Technical Forums, and Cash Transfer Technical Working Groups.
  • Develop and present high-quality dissemination materials at county and stakeholder meetings.
  • Advocate for sustainable support of child health and nutrition emergency response actions and related livelihood interventions beyond CRS-funded activities.
  • Represent CRS in relevant county and sub-county meetings, technical working groups, and events.

Reporting

  • Provide timely inputs to quarterly and annual planning, monitoring, reporting, and budgeting processes.
  • Prepare and submit monthly progress reports highlighting successes, challenges, observations, and adaptations.
  • Document project results and impacts through media stories, promising practices, lessons learned, case studies, and client feedback.
  • Lead data collection, analysis, and reporting using CommCare to inform programming and decision-making.

Safeguarding

  • Continuously sensitize program teams and participants on safeguarding.
  • Ensure compliance with CRS safeguarding policies.
  • Report safeguarding incidents in program operations for appropriate action and follow-up

Required Language:

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; ability to draft and edit reports.
  • Excellent verbal communication skills in Kiswahili.

Required Travel: 

The position will be based in Isiolo, with occasional support to Marsabit and Turkana Counties. This requires approximately 50% travel to project sites across the respective sub-counties.

Supervisory Responsibility: Project Officers – Marsabit

Key Working Relationships:

  • Internal: Program Manager –Health, Nutrition, Social Services, Program Manager –Livelihoods, Project Officers, Marsabit, SPO Turkana, MEAL team, Operations team
  • External: Donors, government ministries/institutions at the National and County levels, health facilities, UN agencies, civil society and faith-based organizations providing multisectoral nutrition services, Community Strategy Focal Persons at County and Sub- County levels, universities/research institutions.

Qualifications

Qualifications and Experience: 

  • University degree required, preferably in Nutrition, Public Health, Nursing, or Social Studies.
  • Minimum of five years of professional experience, including at least two years in managing Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) and/or nutrition or public health programs.
  • Expertise in Emergency and Humanitarian Response in Health and Nutrition, with experience in monitoring, evaluation, and coordinating assessments and data collection.
  • Proven ability to implement IMAM protocols and multisectoral nutrition projects.
  • Demonstrated capacity to design and apply user-friendly guidance, tools, and SOPs at health facility and community levels, and to provide training, technical assistance, and mentoring.
  • Strong knowledge of Government of Kenya (GoK) systems, programs, and frameworks, with experience across both healthcare and community settings.
  • Ability to work effectively with various partners, including government actors, civil society, faith-based organizations, healthcare providers, and multisectoral nutrition service providers.
  • Excellent interpersonal, analytical, negotiation, and mentoring skills, with the ability to manage complex organizational relationships.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills in English.

Check how your CV aligns with this job

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Catholic Relief on eipn.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com to apply

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