NUTRITION SUPERVISOR Medecins Sans Frontieres Belgium
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translates to Doctors without Borders. We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - bound together by our charter. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.
MSF was founded in 1971 in Paris by a group of journalists and doctors. Today, we are a worldwide movement of nearly 65,000 people.
Ensure the implementation of all nutritional related activities of the programme and coordinate and manage the team under his/her responsibility according to the MSF protocols in order to improve the nutritional conditions of the target population.
Duties and responsibilities:
Schedules and organizes all nutrition related activities, its organization design and sizing as well as its associated budget in order to efficiently maintain the continuity of the nutritional healthcare at the standard quality levels.
Supervise, in close coordination with the HR department, the associated processes (recruitment, training, evaluation, development and communication) of the nutrition staff of the project in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required, improve people capabilities and skills.
Supervise the implementation of the nutritional program according to MSF protocols, standards. This includes:
Draw up outpatients activity planning,
Follow up the evolution of patients and discuss the problem cases taking part in the medical assistant’s round, and install referral system
Check that medical and nutrition prescriptions are carried out.
Check the diffusion, knowledge and application of medical, nutritional and anthropometric protocols.
Supervise nursing care and hygiene circumstances.
Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and trained. Ensuring cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols. Reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
Ensure that mothers are well informed about the functioning of the centre, the state and evolution of their child: their tasks (help with cleaning, feeding their child, etc)
Supervises, in cooperation with the pharmacist and project medical referent, the management of the pharmacy, ensuring reception and storage of orders, preparing new orders when required, supervising expiration terms and consumption patterns, in order to ensure, a rationale use as well as pharmacy stock levels are permanently updated and above minimum safety point.
Ensure correct nutritional data collection (registers, nutritional forms, morbidity forms), compile weekly and monthly statistics for the outpatients unit, report this information to the line manager and provide feedback on the results to the team. In these sense, this function includes all kind of nutritional information that nutritional supervisor has in his /her hands.
Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:
Education
Nurse qualification. Desirable with a nutritionist diploma
Experience
Minimum 2 year experience as nut nurse.
Application procedure
Assemble your application including letter of motivation, CV with active contact number, copies of required diplomas / certificates, work experience, active references of the previous employers and copy of Sudanese National ID.
Clearly indicate the position you are applying for and submit your application to:
Omdurman
HAC office / Medecins Sans Frontieres Belgium offices (MSFOCB), Omdurman, Khartoum Sudan
Online
Sudanjob.net
Deadline
Thursday July 24, 2025, 4PM
MSF is a civil society initiative that brings together individuals committed to the assistance of other human beings in crisis. As such MSF is by choice an association. Each individual working with MSF does it out of conviction and is ready to uphold the values and principles of MSF.