Save the Children Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Adviser Jobs in Kenya

Save the Children Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Adviser Jobs in Kenya



Do you want to be part of an organisation that fights for children every single day? We are looking for a committed and experienced nutrition specialist to join us as Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Adviser (ESA), based in East Africa.


In our Humanitarian department, we fight for children every single day. We integrate emergency and development work, through our country programmes. We increase our capacity to meet the assistance and protection needs of children and their families affected by crises. We go the extra mile - and we don’t rest until the work is done.


Responsibilities:


  • Provide technical oversight to a large and dynamic humanitarian nutrition portfolio in the ESA Region, to support the delivery of quality humanitarian nutrition programs
  • Deploy to the field at short notice to set up new humanitarian nutrition programmes, and provide technical and project management support to country level Nutrition Specialists for humanitarian response including advisory visits as needed.
  • Provide quality and adaptive Monitoring, Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) tools and support to country programmes to ensure understanding of high quality programming, operations and advocacy in humanitarian nutrition programmes
  • Support country programmes and head office in the recruitment of humanitarian nutrition staff and ongoing mentoring to support staff development in humanitarian nutrition settings
  • Identify opportunities and progress existing partnerships with external health and nutrition institutes in the region, and UN agencies,
    to increase humanitarian nutrition capacity in the region
  • Represent SC in various technical and nutrition advocacy initiatives and partnerships and lead on specific areas of advocacy and representation directly related to humanitarian nutrition programming
  • Liaise with the relevant external regional stakeholders including donors, learning institutes, UN and NGO representatives identifying opportunities, synergies and partnerships for SC’s humanitarian nutrition work.


    Requirements:


  • Proven experience in management of humanitarian nutrition programs
  • Experience of contingency planning/emergency preparedness planning
  • Experience of working with nutrition cluster coordination mechanisms in country and practical understanding of the cluster approach at country, regional and global level
  • Experience in team leadership and management with highly developed writing skills
  • Strong communication skills at a level appropriate for high level external representation and ability to tailor communications to different audiences


    How to Apply


    Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by 11th March, 2019


    For more information and job application details, see; Save the Children Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Adviser Jobs in Kenya


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