The Nutrition Data Base officer will be responsible overall management of nutrition data in Hirshabelle state, including data collection from all different field, reviewing, analysing, custodian, and cleansing then submitting to the Area Nutrition data base coordinator as well as Deputy Nutrition Manager and area PM on need basis. He/she is also responsible for the setting up and support of the early warning and response system at the supported facilities of the two states. Building on what already exists in terms of nutrition data collection for priority of early warning systems and triggering prevalence and incidence of acute malnutrition. diseases, and ensuring the system is in place to quickly identify potential outbreaks, by being able to identify trends of disease patterns simply and timely. The role will also include participation in technical assessments, collection of nutrition data, and reporting of the projects under the nutrition components running the two states and by extension southern states. He/she will the overall custodian of nutrition data that can easily be retrieved when it comes to the review of the projects, annul total reaches, proposal developments and any other need that the DPM may request.

Requirements: 

• Minimum bachelor’s degree of Health/Nutrition, health records, social science, and health system management or other relevant disciplines.
• Academic background in fields related to Experience of setting up early warning and response system at facility and community level.
• Experience in is an added advantage.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Minimum of 2 years of experience directly related to Health and Nutrition data management, preferably in a humanitarian/ developmental context.
• Experienced in using data reporting tools i.e ONA, MoDA, DHIS2 and cluster reporting tools.
• Proficiency in using computer applications, and data analysis tools advanced excel, ENA, EP-info, SPSS, STATA.
• Good written and spoken English and Somali languages.

Desirable

• Computer skills
• Reporting skills
• Education in emergency minimum standards
• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Psychological and first aid skills
• Cash and voucher assistance.
• TOT skills
• Humanitarian sphere standards and Core humanitarian standards (CHS)
• SCI common approaches
• Basic pedagogical skills