Senior Nutrition Officer - Internals Only - SYNAT / Syria - Idleb Governorate

General Description of the Programme:

GOAL is an international humanitarian and development NGO dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the poorest and most vulnerable. GOAL was established in 1977 and is currently operational in 14 countries worldwide. GOAL began operations in Syria in 2012 responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL’s areas of operations include but not limited to Aleppo, and Idleb Governorates.

GOAL has been responding to the acute needs of conflict affected communities. The program focuses on food and nutrition security, WASH, shelter, livelihoods/ERMS and emergency response with a growing emphasis on cash and voucher modalities. GOAL Syria implements its programs directly, with over 500 staff based in Syria, as well as through Syrian NGO partners. GOAL’s program works at the household, community, and camp levels to improve community resilience and household coping strategies.

GOAL’s nutrition program was launched in 2021 reaching caregivers of children under 5, pregnant and lactating women, and women of reproductive age with family mid-upper arm circumference (FMUAC) approach, Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition messages, blanket distribution of lipid-based nutrition supplements, and Cash and Voucher Assistance for improving nutrition outcomes. All nutrition beneficiaries reached are also benefitting from GOAL’s largescale Food Security programme either by in-kind food kit or CVA distributions. GOAL also implements nutrition programming through local partnerships that provide Community Management of Acute Malnutrition. 

Job purpose:

The Nutrition Sr. Officer is responsible for the direct implementation of activities under GOAL’s nutrition activities in Northern Syria. The Nutrition Sr. Officer, together with the Nutrition Community Worker and other members of the Nutrition team, will provide technical support to beneficiaries to contribute to the reduction of malnutrition and the realisation of positive nutrition outcomes for the projects.  

The Nutrition Officer will report to the Nutrition Programme Manager and will be responsible for ensuring project activities are achieved within agreed timeframes, budgets and according to GOAL’s standards and donor regulations. He/she will manage the Nutrition Community Worker(s) and contribute to robust process and impact monitoring and support the adaptive management of the nutrition programme.

Duties, objectives and competencies:

Coordination: 

• With assistance from the Nutrition Manager liaise with other GOAL departments e.g., logistics, food security team to ensure efficient implementation of activities.
• Coordination with the heads of councils and camp managers to maintain contact with stakeholders in order to coordinate the team's activities and facilitate their work during implementation.
• Network and represent GOAL’s nutrition related activities with other agencies as directed.
• Supervising the activation of project activities in the field, by conducting regular field visits for monitoring and supervision to ensure the quality of services and accurate data.
• Work with the nutrition team to solve all problems and difficulties related to the project.
• Conduct daily and weekly team meetings to ensure coordination of movement plans.
• Follow up on the teams’ work plans including work hours, vacations, and absences, and preparing work schedules for them.
• Raise procurement requests according to project needs and coordinate with the logistics department with close follow up until materials are received.
• Follow up on the project materials and inventory monthly and submit a report on it.
• Contribute to the development of a procurement plan for the Nutrition program.

 Technical: 

• Lead on coordination needed for service mapping of local health and nutrition actors for the referral of acute cases, in consultation with the Nutrition Manager. 
• Develop and package key tailored messages that will support improved maternal and child feeding and care practices in the community in line with the GOAL Syria Nutrition behavioural change strategy 
• Develop communication products (leaflets/SMS messages/Telegram messages/community announcements as appropriate) on nutrition topics and GOAL’s nutrition activities in coordination with the Nutrition Manager. 
• Develop context specific training material on nutrition topics including, but not limited to, identification of acute malnutrition at home and the appropriate actions to take if malnutrition if identified, Infant and Young Child Feeding practices, positive health practices, and more as needed and relevant to the program activities and objective in line with the Nutrition Manager and Coordinator.
• Provide the team with technical trainings as needed. 
• Support MEAL team with coordination and implementation of their activities. And work with the MEAL team to provide nutrition outcome questions on the distribution/activity and post-distribution/activity monitoring, as agreed with the Nutrition Manager and Coordinator. 
• Assist the Nutrition Manager in evaluating the performance of the nutrition team and the quality of services provided. In addition to suggesting developments, suggesting new topics based on community and stakeholder feedback
• Carry out learning lessons sessions with the team to ensure feedback and assessment is continuous throughout the project cycle. 
• With assistance from nutrition manager provide technical support to GOAL partners working on nutrition to ensure partner activities are in line with GOAL processes and requirements
• Contributes and maintains all tools and SOPs related to the program.

Reports: 

• Ensure that all relevant information is collected for reporting purposes on a timely basis, and compile regular monitoring reports, as agreed with the Nutrition Manager
• In liaison with Nutrition Program Manager ensure timely request for monthly activities through raising all relevant finance/logistic related paperwork as well as follow ups where necessary
• Ensure registers and TORs for nutrition activities are in place.
• Ensure that all relevant information is collected for reporting purposes on a timely basis, process data using the respective systems (COMM Care, Excel, and Power BI where needed), and compile regular program reports, as agreed with the Nutrition Manager (SR officer). Ensure the indicators tracker is updated monthly.
• Routine data analysis to report on trends, identify gaps or challenges to service delivery, and report
• Keep a record of all nutrition documents and work on archiving all related files on SharePoint.
• Identify issues, recommendations, and action plans to improve the quality of services; Send weekly report to Nutrition Manager
• Submit reports on completed tasks as requested by the supervisor the Nutrition Manger.
• Other related tasks at the request of the program manager

Other: 

• Ensure that policies and guidelines as laid down in GOAL manuals and policies are always adhered to
• Ensure adherence to GOAL’s Code of Conduct and Child Protection Policy and standards of integrity, as well as uphold GOAL’s whistleblowing mechanisms.
• of guidance, Programme and implementation SOPs and outreach materials as appropriate

Requirements (essential):

• Bachelor’s degree or Intermediate institute certificate (nutrition, health, biomedical science, general science, or related relevant degrees).
• Experience of working in Syria local or international NGOs at least 3 Years in the public health sector (such as hygiene promotion, health, nutrition, COVID teams, etc.).
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience at leading or managing a team
• Demonstrable experience in capacity building and training.
• Good skills in MS Office suite (Word, Excel)
• Prefer to have at least 2 recent years’ experience of nutrition, (community) health, or other relevant experience; including but not limited to counselling, screening for malnutrition, treatment and prevention of malnutrition.
• Must have IYCF and CMAM training/certification
• Preferred experience in implementing CVA programs
• Good communication skills (written, spoken), including writing skills in English and Arabic

 

Interested? Then apply for this position via clicking on the Apply here no longer than four pages). Both must be in English. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Application deadline is August 18, 2025.  

 

General terms and conditions

Safeguarding

Children and vulnerable adults must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Accountability within GOAL

Alongside our safeguarding policy, GOAL is an equal opportunities employer and has a set of integrity policies. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

• Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, Code of Conduct, health and safety, data protection and confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behavior protocols.
• Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.
• Report any concerns about inappropriate behavior of a GOAL staff or partner.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated.  Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible.  This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate, and this may be before the published closing date.  We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.

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