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Save the Children

Global independent charity improving children's lives

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Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryUpdated on Nov 10
Full-timeTumaco, San Andres de Tumaco, Narino, Colombia

About the Job

Requirements

  • Professional degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or another health field, with experience in nutrition programs and primary health care for children.
  • Availability to reside in Tumaco and travel frequently through project intervention areas.
  • At least 3 years of certified professional experience in primary health care, outreach services, and/or community work.
  • Experience in nutrition programs for pregnant women, children, and adolescents.
  • Experience coordinating, supervising, or providing technical support to health teams.
  • Ability to plan, organize, and monitor activities and teams in the field.
  • Knowledge of public health, health promotion, risk management, and referral pathways.
  • Availability to travel and carry out activities in different territories according to project needs.
  • Ability to build and motivate cross-functional teams to achieve client-oriented results.
  • Respect for diverse cultural beliefs.
  • Commitment to a survivor-centered approach when responding to gender-based violence.
  • Ability to recognize legal and rights frameworks protecting victims of armed conflict.
  • Commitment to gender equality and human rights.
  • Diplomacy and assertiveness, including the ability to discuss sensitive issues respectfully and carefully with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Support and accompany the technical, operational, and administrative implementation of health and nutrition activities in the assigned territory, ensuring intervention quality and achievement of project objectives, targets, and institutional guidelines.
  • Contribute to capacity strengthening for teams and community actors, coordination with local institutions and organizations, and monitoring and reporting results according to identified needs and national and international technical guidelines.
  • Lead and accompany the delivery of primary health care and nutrition activities, provide technical guidance, and deliver direct care within the scope of the role’s profession, particularly in community, outreach, and emergency settings.
  • Conduct and support screening, nutritional assessment, and follow-up for children, pregnant women, and other priority populations; identify nutritional risks; provide nutritional supplements under established guidelines; and activate care and referral pathways.
  • Promote health education, healthy eating, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, disease prevention, early risk identification, and timely access to health services.
  • Monitor health and nutrition interventions to verify compliance with technical guidelines and institutional protocols, including breastfeeding promotion, protection, and support.
  • Lead and support the planning and implementation of health and nutrition actions during emergencies, humanitarian crises, disasters, and outbreaks in accordance with identified needs and institutional technical guidance.
  • Participate in identifying and prioritizing health and nutrition needs and help adapt interventions to the context.
  • Monitor the continuity, timeliness, and quality of essential health and nutrition activities during emergency responses.
  • Coordinate and provide technical support to health and nutrition teams in planning, implementing, and monitoring activities, encouraging compliance with targets, protocols, and institutional procedures.
  • Identify capacity-building needs and deliver guidance and training to teams, community leaders, and health institution professionals.
  • Establish and maintain coordination with health institutions, authorities, community organizations, and other local stakeholders to facilitate project delivery, service referrals, and complementary interventions.
  • Participate in local coordination forums, health and nutrition working groups, and other relevant interinstitutional settings, aligning activities with local service provision.
  • Monitor indicators, targets, results, and intervention quality, ensuring information is properly collected and documented in accordance with institutional and IMERA (Research, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning) guidelines.
  • Prepare periodic reports, document success stories and lessons learned, and identify opportunities to improve project implementation.
  • Support operational and administrative planning and management of activities, including requests for goods, services, and supplies through GP and follow-up on requirements for implementation.
  • Carry out all activities using rights-based, gender, life-course, intercultural, differential, and territorial approaches, promoting humane, confidential, and nondiscriminatory care.
  • Perform other duties inherent to the position.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in emergency or humanitarian contexts.
  • Experience designing and managing reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health programs.
  • Experience or knowledge of work and life in relevant regions or contexts, including work with Indigenous and migrant populations.
  • Strong verbal communication skills, particularly for facilitating training groups.

About the Company

Save the Children

Global independent charity improving children's lives

Save the Children is a global, independent charity that helps children in crisis and everyday life. It works in about 120 countries by running programs and campaigns that aim to keep children alive, protect them, help them develop, and let them participate in society. The organization directly delivers services and also advocates for policy changes, working with local partners and communities. Its approach combines field programs with advocacy and partnerships to reach millions of children—last year more than 55 million were helped through its work. What sets it apart is its large international footprint, its clear focus on children’s rights, and its commitment to transparency, collaboration, and integrity while pursuing concrete, measurable changes. The goal is to ensure every child has the right to survival, protection, development, and participation, and to drive immediate and lasting improvements in children’s lives.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Toronto, Canada
Founded
1919

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