Nutritionist @ Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan

Job Summary

Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan invites applications from qualified, experienced, and dynamic candidates for the position of Nutritionist based at BHCs in Garden & Karimabad, Karachi.

Position Summary:

Nutritionist will provide technical support in nutritional assessment, counselling, capacity building, and community awareness activities for older adults through facility-based service delivery as well as outreach camps ensuring nutritional screenings, individualized nutrition care plan, conducting nutrition education session, monitoring patients nutritional progress, capacity building of other staff & maintaining of patient’s data bases and periodical reporting.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support in nutritional assessment, counselling, capacity building, and community awareness activities for elder population.
• Assess clients' nutritional needs, create personalized nutrition plans and monitor them based on their individual health goals and needs.
• Educate clients on healthy eating habits, the importance of a balanced diet, and how to make healthier food choices.
• Identify and manage malnutrition and nutrition related risks in the patients.
• Conducting group nutritional counselling sessions and awareness activities.
• Strengthening the capacity of health care providers focusing geriatric nutrition.
• Develop IEC materials to promote healthy dietary practices within the communities.
• Maintaining patient databases and regularly updating.
• Developing and sharing reports and success stories on regular basis.
• Performing any other duties assigned by supervisor.

Required Skills

Qualification, Experience & Skills Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in nutrition, Dietetics or a related field
• At least 2 + years of experience in the relevant field.
• Can manage multiple tasks, teams, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Have experience working with community health initiatives.

AKHS is committed to reducing our impact on climate and the environment and has set ourselves the goal of striving for net-zero carbon operations by 2030. All staff are expected to take part in making this a reality. The Nutritionist, accompanied with his/her Line Manager(s) is expected to identify and understand which aspects of his/her work have most impact on the environment, and define tasks, work, and personal goals within his/her work plan to reduce these impacts and bring AKHS closer to net zero.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.