Mercy Corps Maternal Child Health and Nutrition Manager Jobs in Uganda
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The Maternal, Child, Health and Nutrition (MCHN) Manager will play a key leadership role in the implementation of a five-year $41 million USAID Food for Peace Activity to support pregnant and lactating women and children under five years of age living across the districts of Amudat, Kotido, Kaabong and Moroto in Karamoja.
The Activity is multi-sectoral with programming in livelihoods, nutrition, WASH, and governance with cross-cutting attention to gender and youth.
The MCHN Manager will work closely with the Deputy Chief of Party to ensure the quality, efficiency, integrity and learning associated with behavior change for development and health system governance in the four districts.
MCHN Manager will be responsible for oversight of the quality maternal and child health and nutrition activities within Apolou as well as coordination between sectors and among partners related to the nutrition objective, including local Community Based Organizations, Save the Children and Whave.
The MCHN Manager will work with staff to capture learning from the field and to support strategy and make tactical adjustments as needed.
Essential Job Responsibilities
Strategy & Vision
Support the Apolou Leadership in developing a vision and strategy for the Activity.
Play an active role in identifying and developing new initiatives that foster or improve food security and nutrition strategic objectives of the Activity and the country office.
Program Management
Support scale up of MCHN and nutrition Behavior Change strategy in four districts through Mother Care Groups, male engagement programming, and other activities as relate to the overall nutrition objective
Support implementation of health system governance activities across the four districts
Ensure nutrition activities are implemented according to best practice with technical oversight of implementation strategy and related materials
Develop and roll out associated MCHN curricula to community platforms as needed
Manage team of nutrition implementers, including national staff and international consultants
Provide budget oversight and administration for the health and nutrition component and ensuring staff compliance with donor and agency regulations
Work with partners and team leaders, advocate for nutrition and health priorities in line with Apolou strategy at key district, regional and national events
Ensure an integrated approach to health and nutrition related program activities in order to maximize resource utilization and synergy between the staff, consortium members, district local governments, the Ministry of Health and other implementing partners
Support coordinated data collection systems and reporting formats within the MCHN team and between partners, with integrated communications to ensure sharing of lessons learned and foster a supportive environment driven by achievement.
Identify and communicate learning agenda for the nutrition and health sector within Apolou.
Recommend program priorities and explore, evaluate and present new opportunities with high potential for impact in the areas of health, nutrition and gender.
Support the MEL Advisor to ensure that the correct tools and processes for collecting data in the field is being done.
Support Collaborative Learning and Adaption component in the Apolou program.Team Management
Lead quarterly review meetings, and monthly sector meetings to guide implementation, coordination and learning.
Establish an adaptive management learning culture in which evidence is continuously generated and lessons learned are actively shared across the consortium for maximum impact
Work with HQ and national office staff to strengthen operations, identify and pursue complementary programming
Establish and maintain contact with all key actors as relevant for program implementation –government ministries, UN agencies, NGOs, private sector partners – and establish mechanisms for contacting local community organizations and partners and other local NGOs/CBOs in line with key Apolou areas of work
Advocate and make appropriate presentations when requested at local, regional, and where possible national and international platforms for Apolou supported strategies for health and nutrition
Represent Apolou at Nutrition-related meetings, implementing partner coordination meetings, events and
conferences
Finance, Compliance AND Operations Management
Oversee the smooth flow of routine program support functions (e.g., finance, administration, logistics) in the field office and compliance with Mercy Corps and donor policies and procedures.
With the support of the Operations Director and Senior Operation Manager ensure adequate operational systems are in place to provide for sector operations
Manage program budget(s) as secondary budget holder.
Strictly follow Mercy Corps Fraud and Corruption Prevention guidelines.
Security
Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.
Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.
Organizational Learning
As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.
Accountability to Beneficiaries
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
Supervisory Responsibility
MCHN Team: The MCHN manager will be responsible for directly managing the MCHN Team, Care Group Manager, Community Behavior Change Manager, Senior Health Systems Strengthening Officer and indirectly managing MCHN officers and community behavior change assistants.
The MCHN manager should mentor an existing staff member to take over the role after their contract expires.
Accountability
Reports Directly To: Apolou Deputy Chief of Party
Works Directly With: Gender and Youth Manager, Resource Transfer Manager, Gender Advisor, Purpose1, Purpose 3 and Purpose 4 Managers, Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning Advisor, Deputy Chief of Party, Program Quality and Partnership Manager, Leads of Consortium Partner Teams in Apolou, Operations Manager and Operations staff, Finance staff and HQ Technical Support Unit
Ethics and Integrity
All Mercy Corps staff are expected to behave ethically and demonstrate highest integrity in their professional and personal life.
Mercy Corps has zero tolerance to any form of fraud, corruption, abuse, harassment or exploitation. Any breach of our policies or misconduct will lead to a disciplinary action or may lead to termination.
Knowledge and Experience
A Master's Degree or equivalent in nutrition or Public Health;
At least 5 years' experience in nutrition specific programming with at least 3 of the years in nutrition programming implementation in developing country contexts, preferably in Sub-Saharan Africa. Experience working with USAID Food for Peace programming will be an advantage.
Demonstrated experience with budget oversight and management.
Superb English verbal and written communication and presentation skills required;
Strong understanding of data analysis and statistics;
Ability to communicate with donors, private sector and civil society partners and host government representatives;
Demonstrated flexibility, creativity and enthusiasm as well as a willingness to learn and to be continually adaptive within a dynamic and often self-directed working environment is mandatory;
Self-starter, with strong capacity for critical thinking and problem solving;
Ability to focus on day-to-day tasks at hand while also working towards longer-term objectives with an understanding that these will change continuously;
Demonstrated capacity to generate and to translate innovative ideas into practical development approaches as well as marketable investment proposals and concepts;
Willingness to travel frequently and extensively in remote areas with basic services.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should apply online by 17th October, 2018
For more information and job application details, see; Mercy Corps Maternal Child Health and Nutrition Manager Jobs in Uganda
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