Overview
Responsible for providing strategic leadership, technical guidance, and support to IRC’s Nutrition programs in Kenya. Ensures quality assurance of all nutrition project interventions to deliver safe and quality services.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership and technical guidance to Nutrition programs.
- Ensure quality assurance of all nutrition project interventions.
- Lead the nutrition team and ensure adequate participation, appropriate delivery, and sustained impact.
- Support technical design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Develop implementation strategy/approaches and guidelines.
- Provide feedback to partners for program quality improvement.
- Liaise with regional or headquarter Technical Advisors.
- Advance IRC’s ambitions, strategies, and priorities with agencies, government, private sector, and community partners.
- Lead the execution of strategic approach for malnutrition management.
- Contribute to scaling up cash and partnerships in the nutrition sector.
- Advance IRC SAP 100 ambitions within nutrition programming.
- Develop strategic partnerships with local organizations.
- Contribute to developing and implementing evidence-based funding applications.
- Identify opportunities for sustainable program growth.
- Direct the development of in-country nutrition sector strategy.
- Lead reviews and cascade ambitions to field staff.
- Design and implement the in-country strategic plan for Movement Against Malnutrition (MAM) agenda.
- Advance nutrition coalition building.
- Support the Health Lead in executing health outcome strategic priorities.
- Provide technical guidance and capacity building.
- Ensure adherence to government sector specific policies, strategies, guidelines, and protocols.
- Ensure adherence to global standards and practices.
- Coordinate with other TCs on management, compliance, and performance standards.
- Establish effective systems for knowledge management and risk management.
- Formulate integrated programming initiatives.
- Promote integration/mainstreaming of GEDI-responsive approaches.
- Provide guidance, strategies, and tools for programming choices.
- Benchmark programming to global and in-country standards.
- Review and advance nutrition programming policies and guidance.
Required Experience
- Experience in providing strategic leadership and technical guidance to nutrition programs.
- Experience in quality assurance of nutrition project interventions.
- Experience in leading nutrition teams.
- Experience in technical design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of nutrition projects.
- Experience in developing implementation strategies, approaches, and guidelines.
- Experience in providing feedback to partners.
- Experience in liaising with regional or headquarter Technical Advisors.
- Experience in advancing organizational ambitions, strategies, and priorities.
- Experience in leading strategic approaches for malnutrition management.
- Experience in scaling up cash and partnerships.
- Experience in developing strategic partnerships with local organizations.
- Experience in developing and implementing evidence-based funding applications.
- Experience in identifying opportunities for sustainable program growth.
- Experience in directing the development of in-country nutrition sector strategy.
- Experience in designing and implementing strategic plans for Movement Against Malnutrition (MAM) agenda.
- Experience in advancing nutrition coalition building.
- Experience in supporting health outcome strategic priorities.
- Experience in providing technical guidance and capacity building.
- Experience in ensuring adherence to government sector specific policies, strategies, guidelines, and protocols.
- Experience in ensuring adherence to global standards and practices.
- Experience in coordinating with other TCs on management, compliance, and performance standards.
- Experience in establishing effective systems for knowledge management and risk management.
- Experience in formulating integrated programming initiatives.
- Experience in promoting integration/mainstreaming of GEDI-responsive approaches.
- Experience in providing guidance, strategies, and tools for programming choices.
- Experience in benchmarking programming to global and in-country standards.
- Experience in reviewing and advancing nutrition programming policies and guidance.
