Nutritionist

The LHF funded project “Food security and nutrition for 450 migrant worker households in Beirut and Mount Lebanon” is due to launch in August 2021.

This project will target 450 vulnerable migrant households in Beirut and Mount Lebanon with balanced and nutritious food (both dry rations and fresh vegetables) for a period of 6 months. All recipients will also receive multi-sector messaging translated into languages appropriate for migrant workers in Lebanon. For households with children under 2 years old malnutrition will be prevented through IYCF awareness raising and the provision of micro-nutrient supplements to complement the food distributed. Early detection and referral for treatment of moderate or severe malnutrition for children aged 6-59 months will be improved through a family MUAC approach with strong referral pathways to referent malnutrition treatment centres in nearby PHCs.

The project will work with members of Migrant-Led Initiatives and focus on building their capacity in warehouse management, distributions, M&E, nutrition education, accountability to affected populations and referrals; ensuring benefits that last beyond the duration of the project.

This project is embedded within Concern’s strategic approach to working with migrant workers in Greater Beirut, which combines addressing immediate and basic needs with long term efforts to address the underlying and structural causes of migrant vulnerability, and works with and through migrant-led initiatives in a migrant-community based, bottom-up approach.

The project and post is an 8-month duration, starting on the 1st August 2021 until the 31st March 2022.

This job is based in Beirut.

The post holder will be expected to work on weekends, with Monday and Tuesday being rest days in lieu.

Because the beneficiaries of the nutrition component are almost exclusively female or children (mothers, PLW and caregivers) this post is open only to female applicants.

This post will be managed by, and report to, the LHF Project Manager.

Roles and responsibilities for this post:

Project Activities

• Take a lead on the nutrition components of the project, ensuring their timely and high quality delivery
• Negotiate with UNICEF for the delivery of micro-nutrient supplements, WHO/UNICEF for the delivery of other multi-sector communications materials, and IOCC for the delivery of traiing in IYCF and family MUAC
• Negotiate with MoPH for approvals for the family MUAC process
• Negotiate and deliver close referral pathways to nutrition treatment centres in Mazraa and Bourj Hammoud
• Negotiate and deliver close referral pathways to IOCC/MoPH lactation specialists

Management

• Manage the nutrition team, who are all members of migrant-led initiatives, and not Concern staff – this will be done under the principles of solidarity, not top-down line management

Partnership

• Ensure respectful interaction with members of the migrant-led initiatives under the principles of solidarity, and ensuring that they are fully informed about everything in the project, participate in all decisions, and are treated as team members
• Ensure that capacity strengthening of migrant-led initiatives are being met with regards to nutrition, with the goal of ensuring that their capacity is built to the fullest extent possible, so that they are increasingly able to implement projects on their own

MEAL

• Ensure that a complaints system is implemented within the nutrition component of the project, with appropriate responses to any complaint being addressed in a timely manner
• Ensure, with the Beirut MEAL officer, that all indicators and progress are monitored, analysed and reported on
• Ensure that nutrition activity progress is reported on a monthly basis, in time for team meetings/sitreps

Reporting

• Submit a monthly project situation report to the LHF Project Manager in time for it to be compiled into the Concern monthly SitRep

Qualifications for this post:

Necessary:

• Higher education degree in nutrition
• At least 5 years experience in humanitarian nutrition projects
• Previous experience with IYCF, family MUAC and interacting with the MoPH PHCs in Lebanon
• Proven experience working in partnership with other independent CSOs or NGOs
• Fundamental agreement and ethical buy-in to the principles of solidarity, anti-racism, feminism, equality and impartiality, with an acceptance that any discriminatory behaviour of any kind based on nationality, legal status or gender is the grounds for immediate dismissal
• Fluency in Arabic and English, both written and spoken

Preferred:

• Prior experience working with migrant workers in Lebanon
• Prior experience working with INGOs

Concern Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies.