Nutritionist
Location: In Uganda
Hiring Firm: Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)
Type: fulltime
Created Date: 2025-09-09
Deadline: 2025-09-20
Job Description:
About Stop TB Partnership/UNOPS PULMq-TB Project
The Ministry of Health (MoH)-National TB/Leprosy Division (NTLD) adopted digital X-ray and CAD as a strategy to increase TB case detection and thus facilitate the finding of the missing TB cases that are not usually reached by the health infrastructure in place due to systemic or patient-level factors. IDI received a grant from the Stop TB Partnership/UNOPS introducing new tool project (iNTP), to implement the Ultra-Portable MinXray Impact System with Qure.ai qXR Software for Community TB Screening in Uganda (PULMq- TB Project). PULMq-TB project will conduct community TB screening among the high-risk populations in the urban and peri-urban settings of Kampala metropolitan and other selected districts of Uganda, inclusive of those in the Karamoja region. The project will also integrate supplementary feeding care aimed at preventing TB infection progression to disease in household contacts of diagnosed bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB patients and those households with children diagnosed with TB in three districts of the Karamoja sub-region.
In order to successfully implement the activities for this project, IDI is looking for competent and experienced individuals to fill the positions below.
Purpose: The Nutritionist will provide technical guidance in the implementation of the nutrition supplementation component of the project in line with the current Ministry of Health nutrition guidelines and supervise the Nutrition Assistants. S/he will provide technical guidance on food values and advise patients and the community on nutrition. S/he will ensure that the Project Coordinator is up-to-date with the implementation progress.
Required Experience: 3 years
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