Overview
Support the effective management, coordination, and monitoring of UNICEF’s nutrition emergency interventions in Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces, ensuring integrated programming and strong partner engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the effective management, coordination, and monitoring of UNICEF’s nutrition emergency interventions in Cabo Delgado and Nampula.
- Ensure integrated programming, strong partner engagement, and full compliance with USG‑OCHA grant requirements.
- Reinforce structured coordination with cluster partners.
- Promote adherence to national nutrition protocols and humanitarian standards.
- Ensure accountable, high‑quality delivery of life‑saving nutrition services to affected populations.
Required Experience
- Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in Nutrition in Emergencies (NiE) or public health nutrition programming in humanitarian contexts, including conflict‑affected, displacement, and fragile settings.
- Demonstrated experience in the planning, coordination, and implementation of life‑saving nutrition interventions, including CMAM, IYCF‑E, nutrition screening and referral, community‑based nutrition services, and integration of nutrition within emergency health and mobile service delivery platforms.
- Proven experience supporting emergency preparedness and response, including surge activities and response to acute shocks and disease outbreaks (e.g. cholera, measles, malaria, floods, conflict‑related displacement), with demonstrated ability to sustain continuity and quality of essential nutrition services.
- Experience in emergency nutrition supply chain oversight, including forecasting, distribution monitoring, stock reporting, and accountability for core nutrition commodities (RUTF/RUSF, therapeutic milks, micronutrient supplements, anthropometric equipment), in coordination with health, supply, and logistics actors.
- Demonstrated experience working with government counterparts, UN agencies, and implementing partners, ensuring alignment with national nutrition protocols, Nutrition Cluster strategies, HNRP priorities, and the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs).
Qualifications
A bachelor`s university degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, International Development, Humanitarian Studies, Social Sciences, Public Policy, Monitoring & Evaluation, Project Management, or any other relevant field related to health, humanitarian response, programme coordination, or data-driven emergency interventions.
