Overview
The Nutrition Specialist supports the development, preparation, and operationalization of emergency nutrition response in a humanitarian and development nexus. The role is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on programme progress in the Rohingya response and host community.
Key Responsibilities
- Support to programme development and planning
- Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
- Technical and operational support to programme implementation
- Networking and partnership building
- Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
- Harmonized coordination tasks
Required Experience
- A minimum of five years of professional experience in nutrition, public health, related research or planning and management in relevant areas of maternal, infant and child nutrition in a developing country is required.
- Relevant experience in health/nutrition program/project development and management in any UN system agency or organization is an asset.
- At least two (2) years of substantive relevant experience in emergencies dealing with major natural and humanitarian emergencies.
- Specialized training/experience in emergency response management highly desirable.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: nutrition, public health, nutritional epidemiology, global/international health and nutrition, health/nutrition research, policy and/or management, health sciences, or another health-related science field.
