Nutrition in Emergency Adviser at Save the Children Nigeria

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We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

We have over two million supporters worldwide and raised 1.9 billion dollars last year to reach more children than ever before, through programmes in health, nutrition, education, protection and child rights, also in times of humanitarian crises.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Nutrition in Emergency Adviser

Job ID: #882091
Location: Abuja

Job Descriptions

• The Nutrition Adviser is the technical lead in this emergency.
• The Nutrition Adviser will participate in the Nutrition working group, lead on sectoral consultation and representation, review of current nutrition programming in Nigeria, guiding assessment design, recruitment of initial staff, training of assessment teams and the finalisation of approach for the Nigerian humanitarian response.
• The Nutrition Advisor will lead sectoral input into individual proposals and the development of the humanitarian response strategy. They will define what inputs will be needed, design the training and management processes for the response. As resources become available, the nutrition advisor will lead on programme start-up, staff recruitment training and support to nutrition manager and staff as they come on line. The Nutrition advisor will then revert to the more usual TA role - providing a monitoring and mentoring role to ensure the quality of the nutrition components of the response.

Main Responsibilities

Programme Support:

• Review the current nutrition programming approach in Nigeria and ensure appropriate incorporation into the humanitarian response design and start-up
• Lead on the definition and organisation of multi-sectoral and stand-alone nutrition technical assessments as appropriate (including community needs, and capacity assesment for nutrition programming).
• Define the Nutrition strategy,- assessments approach and programme design to ensure locally appropriate high quality Nutrition technical approaches within the Nigerian response.
• Work with the other sector leads and other external sector agencies, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific analysis of children's needs.
• Working with the Humanitarian Manager and Deputy Team Leader, develop the Nutrition sector response plans, phased master budgets and contribute to Save the Children's overall response strategy.
• Working closely with the Humanitarian Manager or Team Leader, support fundraising for the Nutrition sector, including development of high quality concept notes and proposals, and engagement with donors' technical Advisers.
• Prepare and oversee Nutrition programme implementation to ensure timely delivery of programme activities (for example, monitoring against logframes, individual performance management workplans).
• Prepare timely programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
• Working closely with the HR team, identify Nutrition staffing needs (both national and international) for nutrition programmes, and ensure rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff.
• Identify Nutrition programme supplies needs and coordinate with the logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan.
• Working closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation team put in place a sector M & E plan, ensuring this links to reporting requirements, and capacity build technical field staff in carrying out the work.
• Working closely with the Accountability lead put in place accountability activities for your thematic area. Ensure both direct and remote accountability systems are incorporated into programme design, ensuring that feedback from all relevant stakeholders is considered in Nutrition programme design and implementation.
• To ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.

Capacity Building:

• Review existing programme approaches and training processes for nutrition in Nigeria. Oversee development and deliver technical training material that will improve aspects of Nutrition work within Save the Children, at country level.
• Develop learning plans and training processes for Save the Children nutrition staff and partners. Mentor and be a role model for less experienced staff.
• Ensure trainings achieve capability outcomes- all trainings define what participants will be able to do at the end of the training and how this ability will be measured and short-fallings incorporated into staff development plans

Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:

• Ensure that Save the Children's work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government, and take a leadership role within Interagency Coordination forums, such as the Nutrition cluster, ensuring the specific needs of children are being addressed. This may involve taking the lead in Nutrition cluster working groups.
• Take steps to document lessons learned, from Nutrition programmes, for wider dissemination.
• In collaboration with senior programme staff, assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers at all levels.
• In collaboration with SC Nutrition colleagues, feed in learning, experiences and evidence to relevant global advocacy objectives.
• To identify opportunities and material to contribute to Nutrition communications and media work, acting as a spokesperson when required.

General:

• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

Qualification

Essential:

• Significant management experience in emergency, fragile state or development Nutrition programmes
• Previous first phase emergency response experience
• Education to Masters level in Public Health Nutrition, or a related subject, or equivalent field experience
• Previous experience of managing a Nutrition team at national level
• Previous experience of Nutrition project management and programme coordination, implementing Nutrition programmes within donor constraints, on time and within budget
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability
• Demonstrated monitoring and evaluation skills
• Ability to work both in an advisory and a hands on implementation capacity
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff in Nutrition technical skills
• Experience of representation and ability to represent SC effectively in external forums.
• Experience of preparing successful funding proposals for donors
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong influencing skills and experience in advocacy
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
• A high level of written and spoken English
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
• Commitment to the aims and principles of SC. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support
• Experienced: 3-5 years

Desirable:

• Language skills in English
• Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts
• Specific experience of designing and managing DFID and ECHO projects
• Specific experience of working in consortia projects.

Application Closing Date
15th March, 2015.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's and covering letter explaining why you are suitable to: [email protected] State position clearly in the subject field, as applications without appropriate subject will be disqualified.

Note:

• Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.