Overview
The role provides technical support for the integration and delivery of high-impact nutrition interventions at national and sub-national levels, and across sectors. It also involves managing organizational resources and monitoring results for the nutrition programme.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide sound technical support for the integration and delivery of high-impact nutrition interventions.
- Provide support to the nutrition programme by efficiently managing organizational resources and monitoring results.
- Track and manage the utilization of grants, ensuring compliance with results-based principles and standards, UNICEF guidelines, and donor conditionalities.
- Initiate and track the procurement of essential life-saving nutrition commodities.
- Assist government counterparts and other partners in the design, planning, implementation and monitoring of nutrition programmes/interventions.
- Provide technical assistance in the integration of the nutrition programme with other sectors and programmes.
- Contribute to establishing partnerships to promote innovative approaches to address immediate and underlying determinants of maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition.
- Support the improvement of programme delivery, with an emphasis on sustainability, community participation, and the Human Rights Based Approach to Programming.
- Assist in the development of evidence-based nutrition work plans and provide technical support for implementation and monitoring.
- Monitor programme implementation to ensure objectives and targets are met and achieved in a timely manner.
- Ensure the efficient and effective use of UNICEF resources.
- Assists in the implementation of emergency preparedness plans and programmes relating to nutrition.
- Conducts accurate, timely monitoring of system-strengthening programmes and interventions.
- Support the field offices in implementation, monitoring of results and reporting.
- Coordinate with Operations and Supply colleagues on the timely procurement, management and distribution of nutrition supplies.
- Ensure the timely and efficient use of grants within established plans and in line with nutrition programme priorities.
- Exchange nutrition information and knowledge with other programmes and partners.
- Contribute to the development of communication materials and strategies to support nutrition advocacy and community participation.
- Establish and maintain partnerships with all nutrition stakeholders, and the private sector.
- Assist in identifying capacity development needs and facilitate learning/development activities for government and implementing partners.
- Introduce innovation and best practices to ensure the nutrition programme's efficiency and effectiveness.
- Keep abreast of and share new evidence on best practices in nutrition programming, especially on systems strengthening.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience in health and nutrition programmes
- Experience in implementing health or nutrition systems strengthening programmes
- Working experience for the UN or other international development organization would be an asset.
Qualifications
A 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, nutritional epidemiology, or another health-related science field. An advanced university degree in any of the above programmes is an asset.
