Nutrition Volunteer - Beirut

Who we are 

Save the Children's work saves and improves children's lives around the world. We work to ensure children have healthcare, food, and shelter, as well as learning and child protection services when children need it most. We are committed to helping all children achieve their full potential by ensuring they grow up healthy, receive a good education, and stay safe.

Securing children's rights is the foundation of our work. Millions of children around the world are denied their rights, simply because of who they are or where they are from. We know that to ensure every child has the chance for a future their rights must be upheld.

Through our programming, emergency responses, and advocacy, we put the most vulnerable children first, tackling the barriers to survival, learning, and protection.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Main Mission: Supporting the Food Security and Nutrition team in all activities related to the development of the Technical Guidance on Healthy Refreshments in Lebanon – including field data collection, market assessment, supplier mapping, and nutritional quality review – while also contributing to community-based nutrition services by assessing the nutritional status of households, providing health and nutrition awareness sessions.

Specific tasks:

• Participate in community-based nutrition activities, including assessing households’ nutritional status, providing general health and nutrition awareness sessions – especially on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) – screening children under five and pregnant and lactating women for malnutrition, and ensuring proper referral of identified cases to Primary Health Care Centers (PHCs).
• Support the distribution of micronutrient supplements to eligible children aged 6–23 months and perform other related duties as needed to ensure smooth implementation of nutrition activities.
• Support the market assessment by conducting field visits to supermarkets, wholesalers, suppliers, and local markets to gather information on available snack, meal, and beverage products, including pricing, labeling, shelf life, and nutritional quality.
• Assist in mapping suppliers, caterers, and distributors, including documenting food-safety certifications (ISO 22000, HACCP, etc.), and in carrying out Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with relevant stakeholders and community members.