Action Against Hunger/Action Contre La Faim (AAH/ACF) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that was created in France in1979. 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 localhealth system. In particular, the country team supported pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under five, who are atgreater risk of malnutrition. Nutrition programs rely on an integrated approach, addressing both primary and underlying causes, inorder to have a lasting impact on nutritional status. 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 responseactivities were implemented, such as the disinfection of health facilities and public places, cash assistance, psychosocial support andthe distribution of hygiene kits to affected populations.

Goal

To assess nutritional status and treatment malnutrition of all under 5 year children and pregnant and lactating women in OPD-SAM and MAM

Responsibilities:

Objective 1:  Screening of all under 5 children and PLW and registration into the program:

• Conduct systematic screening to all U5 children (Edema, MUAC, Height and Weight) and PLW (MUAC & Edema) in selected communities.
• Conduct growth monitoring for all children U2 coming to the OPD-SAM and OPD-MAM services once in a month.
• Maintain and update the screening, OPD-MAM and OPD-SAM register books on a daily basis
• Introduce children and PLW who meet admission or discharge criteria to Nurse.
• Identify children who are absents and defaulted from the program and conduct home visits in coordination with the promoters

Objective 2: Treatment of all U5 children and PLWs enrolled in the OPD-SAM and MAM program

• Classification of all U5 children in categories of well-nourished and Acute Malnutrition (SAM & MAM). 
• Enrolment of all acute malnourished children to OPD SAM/MAM programs. 
• Provide nutritional treatment to enrolled malnourished children according to IMAM treatment protocols. 
• Perform history taking and physical & medical examination including childhood illness of beneficiaries during admission time as well during follow-up visits.  
• Perform appetite tests for each admitted patient during admission time and decide on the provision of treatment services or refer to higher treatment services. 
• Perform anthropometric measurements during follow-up visits. 
• Ensure nutritional follow-up of the beneficiaries. 
• Prescribe routine medication to admitted patients during admission time according to the approved treatment protocol. 
• Identify those beneficiaries who do not respond to the treatment and manage their follow-up. 
• Refer severely acutely malnourished beneficiaries with medical complications to higher health centers (IPD – SAM or Podiatric ward) for advanced treatment.  
• Ensure medical examination at discharge time and validate the discharge upon the status of the beneficiaries. 
• Check if all the procedures are completed before discharge (anthropometric measurements, medical and nutritional treatment, systematic treatment, and health and nutrition education to caretakers). 
• Check that the criteria of discharge are met and act according to the approved treatment guidelines. 
• Record all the necessary information on the existing reporting tools (registration book and card for each beneficiary etc...) 
• Provide health and nutrition education to the caregivers on breastfeeding, complementary feeding, hygiene, care of pregnant and lactating women, and prevention of illness. 

Objective 3: Distribution of nutrition commodities among SAM/MAM beneficiaries.

• Conduct appetite test to all MAM and SAM children admitted in the program
• Conduct health education sessions for mothers/caregivers of all children admitted in the program
• Distribute RUSF and RUTF rations to all SAM children according to the guidelines

Objective 4: Perform Infant Young Child Feeding (IYCF) counseling: 

• Promote breastfeeding skills by spreading relevant 1000 days of life messages to mothers and caretakers. 
• Provide Key IYCF messages to the mothers and caretakers during the performing of GMP to under 2 years of children. 
• Organize group sessions on basic/key messages on 1000 days of life to caretakers who are visiting HFs. 
• Refer patients to proper services based on needs (having complications). 
• Support the conduction of nutrition and health education sessions for clients. 
• Record all the necessary information on the existing reporting tools.  

Objective 5: Represent AAH

• The professional image of his/her AAH programme
• Respect for the principles and values of AAH in the framework of the partnership
• Respect AAH charter
• Develop contacts and explain to stakeholders and to populations the activities and the objectives of the programs;

Objective 4: any other tasks which may be given by the Supervisor

• Support other team members with basic MHT tasks (screening, registration of patients, crowd control, etc. …)
• Support team in ensuring timely and high quality reports

Background/qualifications

• Graduated from recognized nursing institute (Diploma in Nursing)
• At least 2 years’ experience in the field of health and nutrition.
• Previous experiences working in nutrition activities (OPD-SAM/MAM or IPD-SAM….) 
• Patience, good relations with other people, good capacity to work in a team, precision, work under stressful situation.
• Ability to manage staff according to local culture
• Fluent in Dari, Pashto some English knowledge
• High flexibility on the location area
• Good team management and positive attitude
• Knowledge of intervention area is a plus

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

Eligible candidates are invited to apply by the earliest possible, until 27 July 2025. 

Female candidates 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).