Action Against Hunger-USA Nutrition Coordinator

General objective:

The Nutritional Coordinator is responsible for overseeing, coordinating, and ensuring integration between ACF-USA nutrition programs, as well as liaising with various external partners on nutrition issues for Southern Sudan. Nutrition refers here as both Nutrition Treatment and Nutrition Surveillance.

Specific objectives:

• To oversee and ensure coordination/integration between all ACF-USA nutrition programs in Southern Sudan • To supervise nutrition program managers and give technical and management support • To provide technical support and guidance for the nutrition programs • To represent ACF-USA and the organization’s interests to donors, partners and counterparts • To actively participate in external coordination within the health and nutrition sector • To coordinate within the ACF-USA team • To ensure proper reporting of the programmes.

Activities:

To oversee and ensure coordination/integration between all ACF nutrition programs and other department programs: - Analysis of the nutritional situation in Southern Sudan. - Definition of the nutritional strategy for ACF as well as identification and design of future nutrition programs in collaboration with nutrition program managers. - Ensure effective integration and coherence of ACF’s nutritional activities – nutrition surveillance, feeding programs, capacity building – in accordance with the ACF country strategy and the national Ministry of Health strategy. - Ensure the cohesion of the nutrition teams within themselves and with the other sector programs - Ensure that programs are harmonized, standardized and in line with the most up to date ACF protocols and tools - To work in collaboration with ACF-France counterparts in preparation and implementation of handover of ACF-France nutrition activities to ACF-USA during 2009.

To supervise nutrition program managers: - Supervision of the nutrition program managers: induction, follow up, evaluation, and promotion of positive team dynamics and motivation - In case of gap of a nutrition program manager position, the Nutrition Coordinator will provide assistance to the nutrition team in running the program - Overseeing the work of nutrition program managers in order to ensure good compliance of activities within the objectives of the mission and of proposals - this includes regular visits to the teams in the field in order to evaluate achievements; to discuss the constraints encountered, the possible solutions and to make recommendations for current and future programs - Evaluation of nutrition program managers as per the defined schedule and make recommendations to HoM/NY for their career path. - Develop/revise HR structure and plan for ACF nutrition department in South Sudan, in collaboration with program managers and according to evolving program needs

To provide technical support and guidance to nutrition programs: - Guarantee of the technical quality of the nutritional activities (respect of ACF protocols and guidelines) - Validation of technical manuals and guidelines used within ACF nutrition programs, and promotion of new technical protocols in compliance with ACF nutrition policy - Technical justification and technical aspects of new nutrition programs/activities as needs arise - To train ACF nutrition teams on technical issues (methodology, protocols) as needs arise - To ensure good quality of the trainings provided by the nutrition teams to partners and that these trainings match with ACF nutrition protocols - To ensure compliance of programmes in achieving project objectives according to current grants

To represent ACF and its interests to donors, partners and counterparts: - Participation in all relevant meetings related to nutrition and health, including meetings with donors, partners and governmental bodies, in coordination with the HoM - Encouraging the collaboration with other agencies, such as health NGOs, on nutrition activities or technical assistance - Support to ACF advocacy activities related to nutritional issues (follow up on advocacy plans, press releases), in coordination with the HoM - Promotion of ACF as a major actor in nutrition in Southern Sudan; through active participation in the national Nutritional Technical Working Group and other related forums and dissemination of external reports (ie. nutrition surveillance bulletins, causal analysis and evaluation reports of the nutrition situation in the country) - Examine and pursue funding opportunities from donors and partners, in collaboration with HoM (including developing and submitting concept papers, proposals, etc)

To Co-lead and actively participate in external coordination within the nutrition sector / cluster: - Co-lead cluster meetings together with UNICEF ( see co-lead ToR) - Participate in the monthly national Health and Nutrition Coordination meeting - Participate in the monthly Nutrition Technical Working group and other coordination meetings and forums related to health and nutrition (such as NGO health forum, UN and MoH sector and budget work plans) - Provision of technical support and guidance to partner agencies and relevant governmental bodies, specifically the MoH at all levels (county, state and national levels), in the development of national nutrition policy and protocols for Southern Sudan.

To coordinate within the ACF team: - Collaborate and communicate with Technical and Support Coordinators, Program Managers, HoM, and any other ACF resource people in order to ensure the coherence of activities and reports in terms of ACF nutritional strategy. - Informing/updating the HoM on nutrition program implementation and any issues on a regular basis - Participation in weekly coordination team meetings and any other general team or strategy meetings - Follow up of nutrition program budgets in liaison with the Admin coordinator and program managers, to ensure budget expenditure is inline with program objectives and timeline - Follow up of logistics requirements for nutrition programs in liaison with the Logistics Department and in collaboration with program managers - Participation in the overall mission and program strategy, narrative and financial project proposals and reporting, in collaboration with Log/Admin/HoM and other program coordinators as necessary

To ensure proper reporting of the programmes: - Reporting on attended meetings or training to share with program managers, coordination team and NY as necessary - Monthly ACF nutrition report to be sent to HoM and NY Technical Advisor – which includes an overview of the nutritional situation in Southern Sudan, external coordination update, achievements for the past month and objectives for the following month - Preparing inputs for the mission monthly sitrep - Validate donor proposals and reports and ACF nutrition analysis reports written by program managers and lend support in the process - Prepare handover report as necessary to replacement - End of mission report to be sent to HoM, Tech Dir, Desk officer and Human Resources in NY.

Requirements

Education / specific degree / special skills:

•  Degree in Nutrition or related Medical Field, such as Nursing
  

•  Must have previous experience working with ACF in nutrition program management as a nutrition coordinator.
  

•  Strong experience in running emergency nutrition treatment programs, and strong understanding of nutrition surveillance.
  

•  Experienced in proposal writing and donor reporting.
  

•  Experience working with Line Ministries
  

•  Excellent analysis and public communication skills.
  

•  This person should have a strong understanding of project cycle management and monitoring and evaluation. 
  

•  Should be flexible and be willing to travel often to the field.
  

•  Proficient in MS Office Applications
  

•  Good management and representation competencies.
  

•  Excellent influencing and negotiation skills
  

•  Experience in developing world context.
  

•  Familiarity with ACF and acceptance of ACF’s principles.
  

• Familarity with ECHO reporting and regualtions.
  

•  Humanitarian experience.
  

How to apply:

Apply with resume and cover letter at http://actionagainsthunger.theresumator.com/apply/bI6riZ/Nutrition-Coord...