Nutrition and Development Facilitator

Job Overview:

• The Nutrition and Development Facilitator (NDF) will support the delivery of community-based nutrition and early childhood development interventions by conducting counselling sessions, community outreach, and behaviour change activities. The role involves engaging beneficiaries, promoting maternal and child nutrition, facilitating referrals, maintaining programme records, and supporting monitoring and reporting to improve nutrition outcomes within assigned Facilitation Centers.

Key Responsibilities:

The NDF will undertake the following responsibilities:

Priority Household Behaviours to Promote

• The NDF will promote a focused life-cycle behaviour package, delivered through FC and community contacts on the following thematic areas:
• Service uptake and continuity: eligible PBWs, children identified and registered, attend scheduled FC visits, complete referrals and return after missed appointments.
• Maternal and adolescent nutrition: improved diet during pregnancy/breastfeeding; adherence to MMS and anaemia-prevention guidance where applicable; timely ANC/PNC and care-seeking. Infant and young child feeding: early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding for six months; timely, adequate, diverse and age-appropriate complementary feeding from six months.
• ECD and parenting: responsive caregiving, play, talk, sing, storytelling, positive parenting, recognition of basic milestones and timely support for red flags.
• Family and household support: engagement of fathers, mothers-in-law, grandmothers and decision-makers.

A. Core Responsibilities

Targeted outreach and mapping:

• Map targeted households in the FC catchment; identify eligible PBWs, children 0–23/24 months, LHWs/LHSs and local structures.

Community engagement and SBC:

• Facilitate mother, father and adolescent peer groups; conduct household/group counselling; interpersonal counselling; engage fathers, grandmothers, religious/community influencers; identify top 2-3 barriers monthly and update the FC SBC micro-plan.

FC-based counselling and ECD:

• Support short, practical counselling while beneficiaries wait; animate the Parenting and Nutrition Counselling Corner; demonstrate feeding, play, communication and responsive caregiving; support basic developmental monitoring/screening using approved tools and refer red flags.

Follow-up and referral completion:

• Track missed visits, defaulters, SAM/MAM, PBWs/adolescent girls with nutrition risks, developmental red flags and incomplete referrals; support return-to-service counselling and referral completion for ANC, PNC, EPI, CMAM/NSC, anaemia and ECD concerns.

Campaigns, AAP and feedback:

• Support WBW, Parenting Month, adolescent nutrition and other campaigns with practical demonstrations and consistent messages; ensure beneficiaries know entitlements, visit schedules, referrals and complaint/feedback channels; ensure consent and safeguarding.

Monitoring and learning:

• Maintain simple trackers for outreach, counselling, sessions, referrals, missed visits, ECD screening/referrals, community feedback and service bottlenecks; submit monthly reports and use data/social listening to improve micro-plans.

B. Coordination and Ways of Working

• Work through FCs and communities in an integrated weekly cycle; both FC and community work are core responsibilities. Coordinate with FC staff, LHWs/LHSs, CMWs, vaccinators, health facility staff, local administration and community groups to avoid parallel systems.
• Use existing platforms where possible: LHW/community networks, mother/father/adolescent groups, BBCs/community groups, religious/community leaders, schools and campaign days.
• Escalate unresolved service, referral, safeguarding, AAP, commodity or access issues to the supervisor through agreed channels.

C. Accountability, Safeguarding and Do-No-Harm

• Adhere to codes of conduct, PSEA, child safeguarding, AAP, prevention of harassment and ethical communication requirements.
• Ensure confidential, respectful, non-stigmatizing and inclusive engagement with women, adolescent girls, children, persons with disabilities and vulnerable households.
• Obtain informed consent for photographs, videos and stories and report safeguarding concerns through established channels.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, nutrition, public health, allied health or related field, or LHV qualification.

Required Experience:

• Minimum 1-2 years in community-based nutrition, ECD, SBC, health or social protection programmes. Experience with Nutrition Programme, and local-language communication is desirable.

Required Skills:

• Respectful counselling, community mobilization, facilitation, basic reporting.

Location:

• Across KPK.