Addressing malnutrition and improving the nutritional status of children and mothers is a key programmatic focus of the Africa health strategy. The purpose of the position is to provide technical support and coordination of nutrition programming with a special focus on the health and nutrition scale up and emergency nutrition interventions in the region. The primary purpose is to support NOs to build capacity and implement selected projects and ensure alignment with the regional health strategy. The position will assist WV National Offices to develop the capacity and gain adequate resources to effectively scale up and implement community based nutrition interventions that are recommended in the regional health strategy. Special focus will be on building capacity on 7-11 aligned programmes and the nutrition component within them as well as building adequate capacity for community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) projects, one of the IPM emergency related project models. Coordinate with the health and nutrition working group and the global nutrition center of expertise (NCOE).
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provides high quality nutrition related technical support to National Offices including guidance on the design, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of nutrition programs through ongoing correspondence, review of proposals and reports, as well as regular field visits and mentoring of key program staff to improve quality.
- Develops regional nutrition strategic direction and scale up plans, and facilitates better understanding of these and other related nutrition strategies among the health and HIV&AIDS Team and across other lines of ministry (e.g., TD, HEA, Advocacy and global initiatives).
- Supports nutrition projects to establish assessment, monitoring and evaluation processes to monitor input, outcome and impact results across the region, integrating with and utilizing LEAP guidance. Helps build capacity and conduct training in the SQUEAK methodology.
- Coordination to ensure program components are aligned with regional/national health and nutrition strategies
- Coordination of recording and reporting of project interventions with focus on key functional indicators, as well as documentation and dissemination of lessons learned.
- Works with the regional ministry point persons, other health and HIV&AIDS staff, and nutrition related GTRN members in a collaborative effort to provide quality service to National Offices.
- Ensure that establishment of a nutrition center of learning in the region and make sure that key interventions and programming models are documented and proven effective, contributing to worldwide best practice, supporting nutrition research as needed. Utilize the LC to provide learning opportunities for other NO technical staff in the region.
- Participate in Africa health and nutrition working group calls and meetings and is an active participant in the Global Health and Nutrition CoP and nutrition-working group.
- Leads and coordinates the 7-11 roll out resources for establishing nutrition goals, strategic objectives and implementation of core intervention models.
- Provides coordination for nutrition resource acquisition work in the region. Liaises with Regional nutrition partners and stakeholders. Contributes to the global CMAM tracking system.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
- Masters or equivalent degree in nutrition and child health
- Must demonstrate understanding or experience in nutrition programming
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in managing community based nutrition projects in developing countries,
- Excellent skills required in program design, reporting and documentation, and monitoring and evaluation, and in managing by results
- Knowledge of World Vision operations, regional and national office programming preferable
- Must be a creative individual with strong sense of vision, commitment and priorities
- Must have strong organizational skills and an ability to work with diverse teams across considerable distances
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral) and strong interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated commitment to World Vision’s mission statement and Core Values
PREFERRED: - An undergraduate degree in a nutrition and/or health related discipline is preferable
- REQUIRED:
MozambiqueRegional Nutrition Advisor
No comments: