Provision of Technical Support to Nutrition Interventions Country Programme Support Provide technical support to NUT programme teams to ensure application of project cycle management from conception to evaluation. Ensure appropriate needs assessments; monitoring and evaluation are conducted according to ACF and donors standards. Provide technical NUT advice for programme implementation to country NUT programme teams. Promote of ACF NUT technical guidelines, manuals and position papers. Ensure compliance with ACF NUT policies and procedures. Provide technical validation of NUT components of country strategies, approaches and decisions. Ensure follow up on secondary contextual analysis, programme implementation and monthly reporting to track progress and ensure adherence to contractual donor obligations. Ensure secondary analysis of existing or proposed programmes to ensure relevance, impact, viability, sustainability and quality of the action. Validate technical NUT parts of donor proposals developed by the country teams ensuring technical applicability, coherence, feasibility, appropriate budgets, etc. Validate technical NUT parts of donor and technical reports developed by the country teams. Ensure documentation, capitalization and dissemination of programme experiences, statistics and lessons learned. Facilitate the identification of innovation and research opportunities together with the country programme team. Participate in regular pool meetings and ensure coherence, interaction and integration with the pool team members. Visit country programmes when requested by the field and/or headquarters, following a clear TOR proposed by the country team.
Technical leadership
Lead the NUT HQ and country teams to define and implement innovative and pertinent NUT strategies and plan of actions. Supervise the implementation of NUT strategic initiatives and research projects. Work closely with the other technical teams and senior technical advisors to define common strategy, work plans and strategic initiatives. Identify and seek funding for NUT operations and technical research projects contributing to ACF overall strategy and development. Collect information and coordinate with other agencies/partners to ensure up to date NUT knowledge and understanding of the latest pertinent NUT programming, tools, technical developments and innovations. Ensure close interaction and integration with other ACF technical departments in NY HQ as well as ACF International. Lead and coordinate on Monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) activities and strategy within HQ, and follow the network MEAL discussion. Support the development of ACF NUT advocacy strategy and messages.
External Coordination representation
Represent ACF NUT at relevant technical events, contribute presentation materials, panel discussions, etc. in coordination and technical forums. Identify and collaborate with international organizations, initiatives donors and academic institutions suitable and beneficial to ACF, mandate, profile and strategy. Identify and develop relationships for collaboration with respective academic and policy institutions in line with ACF international and NUT strategies.
Communication
Regularly contribute to ER/ communication efforts, press releases and other documentation. Provide requested and necessary NUT information, experiences and case studies to ER/comms for public communications, website materials etc. Contribute photos taken on country programme visit to ER/comms data based and resources. Be available to interview, radio and video material development for ER/comms purposes.
Supervision of Technical Advisors
Supervise and regularly appraise the NUT technical advisor(s) activities and performance. Set short-term and annual objectives for all NUT technical advisors Identify appropriate training and other learning opportunities to support the career development of each NUT technical advisor Supervise and oversee occasional NUT interns working with the technical team.
Human Resources - Selection, Placement and Training
Contribute to the recruitment process of NUT technical field practitioners by providing a technical assessment of each NUT candidate’s skills & experience (Qualifications, technical tests & technical interviews, share documentation and notes with HR for database and placement). Provide technical advice and technical validation of NUT JDs for country program technical positions. Work with HR to determine which available candidates are technically qualified for open positions. Support HR in the development and maintenance of a NUT technical fieldworker pool, including sharing information about NUT staff (availability, technical capacities), and, at HR’s request, providing other ACF HQs with technical feedback. Ensure induction, briefing and debriefing of NUT technical and non-technical staff for ACF USA country programs and ACF USA HQ. Identify on-going training needs of the HQ NUT team and NUT technical country coordinators, and assist in providing needed training or support. Provide technical support, input and validation to technical NUT initiatives and trainings from the Regional Training Centre in Nairobi. Participate in US based recruitment initiatives (career fairs, university presentations etc.).
Personal Specifications
Qualifications:
Essential: Relevant Post-Graduate degree
Desirable: Masters degree in human nutrition, public health health, medicine, anthropology, or similar.
Experience
Essential: A minimum of 5 years previous work in NUT programmes overseas with an International humanitarian organization. A minimum of 2 years previous work in NUT technical advisory position with an International humanitarian organization
Desirable: Experience working with ACF International.
Competencies
Essential: Fluent written and spoken English. Ability to manage and prioritize own workload. Experience writing complex technical reports Experience in remote management and skill building Good working knowledge of CMAM, SMART, etc. Good working knowledge of computer software, MS Office and nutrition related software (EPiInfo, ENA, SPSS, etc.).
Desirable: Working knowledge of French. Familiarity with SLEAC, KAP, IYCF etc.
Personal Qualities
Essential: Motivation to work within the humanitarian sector. Ability to work in a dynamic and busy office within a small and diverse team Flexible and adaptable Dynamic and enthusiastic Proactive and taking initiative Reliable
Please apply online at http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/about/employment
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