Nutrition Technical Advisor at Catholic Relief Services

Catholic Relief Services is the official agency of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops for relief and development assistance overseas.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) will like to request application from suitably qualified candidates to fill positions

Position Title: Nutrition Technical Advisor

Department: Programming
Reports To: Program Technical Director
Location: Banns, Nigeria
Duration: Full Time
Band: E-1

General functions:
The Nutrition TA (NTA) will be responsible for working closely with the SMILE technical team to achieve the strategic objectives of the program-focusing primarily on nutrition, WASH and health, but also supporting cross-cutting themes and integration efforts across the project with other areas of OVC programming, especially household economic strengthening and food security. S/he will lead planning and capacity strengthening efforts while putting in place operational strategies for achieving project aims, results and performance expectations through adherence to high standards of programmatic and management quality.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Minimum of Master's Degree in Public Health, Nutrition or related field required.
• Minimum 6 years technical experience with community-level health and/or nutrition programs in Nigeria. Experience with behavior change analysis and communication, IMCI, CMAM, WASH and IYCF interventions desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government and civil society partners and communities as well as transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through workshops, training and meetings using participatory methods and adult learning principles.
• Proven leadership and inter-personal skills for effective team work; as well as the ability to work independently on a frequent basis, taking initiative, managing a variety of activities concurrently, and delivering outputs on schedule.
• Demonstrated ability to support partners working at a distance to achieve results against program objectives/targets.
• Successful experience in project design and proposal development in the nutrition/health sector for USAID/PEPFAR preferred.
• Experience with monitoring and evaluation and reporting nutrition activities.
• Good knowledge of Government of Nigeria nutrition and health priorities with experience working with Ministry of Health and other relevant entities.
• Familiarity with OVC programming and principles.
• Familiarity with food science and processing helpful.
• Excellent English oral an4written communication skills required.
• Excellent analytic, organizational and computer skills; skilled in MS Office including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. Experience with SharePoint a plus. Copied: www.hotnigerianjobs.com

(Note: Qualified Applicants who had earlier applied for this position should please re-apply)

Application Closing Date
Wednesday, 7th August, 2013

How to Apply:
Interested applicants should Click here to download the CRS Application Form, after filling the form, send it with a detailed CV as attached MS Word documents to: [email protected]

Applicants must explicitly state the position applied for in the CRS application form and in the subject of their email e.g. Driver - Enugu

Only applications sent hi the required format will be considered and only short listed candidates will be contacted.