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Action Against Hunger/Action Contre La Faim (AAH/ACF) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that was created in France in 1979. AAH/ACF has been active in Afghanistan in the medical, nutrition, food security, and water and sanitation fields since 1995.  AAH/ACF improved access to health and nutrition services for the most vulnerable people, who live in remote areas without a local health system.

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In particular, the country team supported pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under five, who are at greater risk of malnutrition. Nutrition programmes rely on an integrated approach, addressing both primary and underlying causes, in order to have a lasting impact on nutritional status.

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The country team worked at community level, in villages and at provincial level, strengthening the public health system. It also worked at national level to ensure reliable information about the nutritional situation reached the wider humanitarian community. Covid-19 prevention was integrated into all interventions and additional response activities were implemented, such as the disinfection of health facilities and public places, cash assistance, psychosocial support and the distribution of hygiene kits to affected populations.

Major Responsibilities

Objective 1: Supervise the admissions of patients in the centre:

• Identify patients in a critical state of health ;
• Give sweetened water to all the patients upon arrival whatever their state of health. ;
• Take anthropometric measurements of the patients and check for oedema. Admit those presenting at least one of the admission criteria ;

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• Receive the patients admitted, together with those accompanying them, and give them information on how the centre functions ;
• Note down the patient’s name in the registry ;
• Check if the patient has been vaccinated against measles and if he has a vaccination card;

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• Put on the identity bracelet ;
• Fill in a nutritional follow-up card and give it to the patient.

Objective 2: Ensure the anthropometric follow-up of the patients

Patients present in the centre:

• Check on oedema and take the anthropometric measurements of the patients, measure their MUAC and height ;
• Detect anomalies in the measurements and correct them immediately ;
• Up-date the registry and the patient’s individual card ;
• Check that the anthropometric material is in good working order.

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Patients at home:

• Check the height, the weight, the MUAC and the presence of oedema ;
• In case of a medical problem, refer the patient to the closest care centre to the home ;
• In case of loss of weight, the patient should be re-admitted to the centre.

Objective 3: Discharge the patients:

• Check that all the procedures have been followed ;
• Update all the discharges in the registry and the follow-up book ;
• Give the patient or the person accompanying him the treatment card, a food ration, and an appointment for the follow-up ;
• Remove the identity bracelet.

Objective 4: Set up health education sessions:

• Let the patients and those who accompany them participate in health education sessions and adapt these according to the reasons for the transfer. ;
• Train new colleagues in how to carry out anthropometric measurements.

Objective 5: Develop the statistics:

• Develop daily and monthly statistics of the centre.

Educational / Professional Background :

• High school graduate; graduates from Nursing, midwifery institutes are preferred.
• At least 2 years’ experience in the field of health and nutrition at community level.

Required Competences & Skills :

• Sufficient knowledge of arithmetic to make anthropometric measurements
• Precision and exactitude. Good capacity to work in a team

• Excellent communication with communities
• Having a high flexibility
• Good planning, organizing and reporting kills.

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• Ability to manage working environment according to local culture
• Fluent in local languages (Dari & Pashto), Knowledge of English language is a plus.
• Knowledge of intervention area is a plus
• Develops and promotes effective collaboration within and across units to achieve shared goals and optimize results.
• Continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate

Qualified and interested candidates should submit a cover letter and full CV with three Referees indicating the vacancy announcement to the address:

Human Resources Department AAH office

or can also be emailed to:

vacancies-hl@af-actionagainsthunger.org indicating the job tile and vacancy number of the position in the email subject line.

Eligible candidates are invited to apply the earliest possible deadline is set for 18 Feb 2023.

Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.

Do not submit academic certificates with the application. These will be requested if the candidate is selected. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the written test/interview.

Action Against Hunger/Action Conter La Faim is an equal opportunity employer.  We strongly encourage women and people with disabilities to apply.  ACF/AAH has zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, and abuse (SEA).

vacancies-hl@af-actionagainsthunger.org