School Health and Nutrition Coordinator at Save The Children

Roles:

The school Health and Nutrition Coordinator will Work closely with the Director of Program Development & Quality, Education Advisor/Manager and the Health Team, with support from SCUS SHN Specialist. to contribute to proposals that support the growth of School Health and Nutrition activities in urban Lagos schools. Conduct and supervise all aspects offormative school health and nutrition activities including: 

• Assess current school health services in collaboration with students, communities and the Ministry of Health. 
• Identify and engage stakeholders and partners. 
• Develop and conduct a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices survey. 
• Compile and analyze aforementioned formative data to develop a situation analysis, and community engagement and program strategy.

Monitoring & Evaluation 

• Work with Head of M&E to develop an M&E plan for the SHN program. 
• Oversee the collection of school health and nutrition data for the purpose of reporting, advocacy. decision-making, etc. 
• Escalate data to the CO's M&E Head for analysis 
• Work with the Head of M&E. with support from SHN Specialist to plan and carry out Result Reviews and reports for P&G and Save the Children. 
• Document lessons learned, collect case studies and success stories for reporting and advocacy purposes 
• Work with Nigeria country office staff to carry out SHN baseline, monitoring, deadline and other studies 

Qualifications:

In order to be successful within this role, the incumbent must have a 

• Bachelor's degree and preferable a Master's degree in public health or social sciences. 
• Relevant experience and knowledge in performing qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, including desk reviews and situation analyses is essential.
• Proven experience in training. community mobilization is required. The candidate should have the ability to speak one or more other local languages in Lagos State as well as work with minimum supervision.