Action Against Hunger USA Regional Nutrition and Health Specialist - Jobs in Kenya

Action Against Hunger USA Regional Nutrition and Health Specialist - Jobs in Kenya

Job Summary

As a member of Action Against Hunger Horn and Eastern Africa Regional Team; and within the Knowledge and Innovation Hub, the Regional Nutrition and Health Specialist will deliver the global technical strategy, inform the development and implementation of nutrition and health interventions and initiatives in Horn and Eastern Africa. Specifically, the main responsibilities are:

Maximizing impact in country programs by supporting core programming, providing demand-driven support to field-based program & project implementation and management.

Inform learning, capitalization and uptake of Action Against Hunger programming and experiences.

Engaging strategically to influence nutrition and health sector policies, practices of key stakeholders based on evidence including external coordination, representation and communication at regional level and globally as needed.

Supporting the mobilization of critical resources through the design of country and regional programming, integrating innovative approaches and applied best practices in the area of nutrition and health.

Essential Job Duties

a) Country Program Support:

Advise on the design and implementation of high quality nutrition and health needs assessments.

Advise on the nutrition and health components of country strategies, approaches and decisions.

Operational and advisory support to nutrition and health technical sections of donor’s proposals developed by country teams, ensuring technical relevance, coherence, feasibility and appropriate budgeting

Demonstrate compliance with Action Against Hunger technical policies and guidelines.

Advise country teams on existing or proposed Nutrition & Health programs to ensure relevance, impact, sustainability and quality of the intervention.

b) Technical support, organizational learning and uptake

Inform as necessary Action Against Hunger strategic initiatives, including Action Against Hunger technical strategy.

Represent the technical, knowledge and innovations hub discussions in the Horn and Eastern Africa and ensure coherence, interaction and integration with other pool team members from other sectors and departments

Support in the documentation, capitalization and dissemination of program experiences and lessons learned.

Promote Action Against Hunger guidelines, manuals and position papers.

c) Regional representation, coordination and external communication

Represent Action Against Hunger technical experiences and positioning in regional coordination, working groups and technical fora

Identify funding opportunities for nutrition and health programming at regional level which contribute to Action Against Hunger overall strategy and development

Identify and engage with international organizations, donors, academic institutions and initiatives at regional level to further Action Against Hunger mandate, profile and strategy

Contribute to External Relations (ER)/ communication efforts, press releases and other documentation at regional level.

d) Resource Mobilization and Program Development:

Working in partnership with key players from business development, regional and country teams; participate and support applications/proposals for strategic grants and contracts for country, regional and global programming that integrates innovative approaches and best practices in the area of nutrition.

Build and develop relationships for strategic collaborations and partnerships with key stakeholders, including academic and policy institutions in line with Action Against Hunger USA’s technical strategy.

Engage with private fundraising and communication teams to mobilize corporate and private funding to support the mission of the organization.

Review and give inputs to concept notes and proposals from country teams to ensure evidence-based sound technical nutrition approaches and interventions are included.

e) Human Resources - Selection, Placement and Orientation:

Advise in the recruitment of nutrition and health technical field practitioners by providing a technical assessment of each candidate’s skills & experience (including screening CVs, evaluating technical tests, conducting technical interviews, sharing documentation and notes with HR for the database and placement purposes).

Advise and inform the development and technical sign off of nutrition and health Job descriptions for country and regional related technical positions.

Advise HR to determine which available candidates are technically qualified for open positions.

Advise HR in the development and maintenance of a nutrition and health technical fieldworker pool, including sharing information about nutrition and health staff (availability, technical capacities), and, at HR’s request, providing other Action Against Hunger HQs with technical feedback.

Facilitate briefing/debriefing of nutrition and health technical staff

for Action Against Hunger country programs.

Identify the on-going learning and development needs of the nutrition and health technical country coordinators, and assist in providing or supporting their professional development.

Supervisory Responsibilities.

The Regional Nutrition and Health Specialist will supervise Regional Nutrition and Health Managers, Regional Pharmacists as well as technical oversight for all country Nutrition and Health Focals.

Fiscal Responsibility.

Focal for all Nutrition and Health related programs/projects as well as ensure 100% implementation of these activities within budget, scope and time; to include related country project oversight.

Physicl Demands.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit for long periods and to concentrate on work, including typing, and turn out heavy volumes of work accurately, within short time frames under stressful situations in the context of a moderately noisy office with many interruptions. Must be able to proofread own work accurately so that only minor corrections are needed on an infrequent basis.

To travel to the field, the employee must attest to a level of physical fitness capable of enduring physically difficult, highly stressful situations which may include the necessity to walk long distances, to eat a limited diet and/or to reside in potentially uncomfortable housing or tents.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Working Conditions, Travel And Environment.

The duties of the job require regular job attendance global, regional as well as field visits, attendance to external meetings and conferences

Must be available to work and travel outside normal office hours or on the weekends as needed or required.

While visiting the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high security risks and/or very basic living conditions and outside weather conditions, as well as to infectious diseases.

Required Qualifications.

Post-Graduate degree (Master’s Degree or higher) in Human Nutrition, Public Health, Sociology, Anthropology, Medicine, or relevant Degree in Nutrition/Public Health with minimum 10 years’ relevant experience.

A minimum of 6 years’ previous work in Nutrition & Health programs overseas with an international humanitarian organization.

Required Skills And Experience.

Experience working in humanitarian contexts, emergency and post-crisis. Familiarity with all steps of the Project Cycle Management;

Excellent knowledge of technical fields related to Nutrition and Health which may include nutrition related Public Health, Community Mobilization, Monitoring & Evaluation.

Good working knowledge of CMAM and IMAM, SMART, SQEAC, KAP, IYCF, iCCM, or other NUT programming.

Applied knowledge of malnutrition causal framework, epidemiology, research, and behavior change preferred.

Good working knowledge of various computer software and nutrition related programs.

Genuine interest in and commitment to the humanitarian principles of Action Against Hunger

Capacity to represent the organization within the Action Against Hunger network and externally to other humanitarian actors, funding agencies and private donors.

Ability to take initiative and prioritize multiple tasks with minimum supervision.

Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work both independently and as a member of a team

How to apply

Interested? Then apply for this position by clicking on the apply link below. All applicants must upload a cover letter and an updated resume and both must be in the same language as this vacancy note by 15th July 2022

For more information and job application details, see; Action Against Hunger USA Regional Nutrition and Health Specialist - Jobs in Kenya



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