United Nations Children's Fund
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Under the supervision of the field Nutrition Specialist/Officer, and with support from the national Nutrition Manager/Chief and the Nutrition Officer (Cluster Coordination), the purpose of this post is to provide leadership and facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent and effective response by partners in the sub national nutrition cluster.
Key function, accountabilities and related duties/tasks:
- The post holder has joint responsibility with the UNICEF, resourcing partners and all cluster participants at the national and sub-national level for the efficient management and functioning of the sub-national nutrition cluster encompassing the following:
- Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with nutrition stakeholders through active sharing of information and knowledge
- Revitalize and maintain an appropriate humanitarian nutrition coordination mechanism
- Build complementarity of partner actions, avoiding duplication and gaps
- Provide support to adequate resource mobilization and equitable allocation for the effective functioning of the sub cluster and its response.
- Promote effective and comprehensive integration of relevant cross-cutting issues, including age, gender, and disabilities.
- Maintain flexibility within the sub cluster to respond to changes in the operating environment, evolving requirements, capacities and participation.
- Effectively use and transfer information to, from and between cluster participants and other stakeholders.
- Interact with other clusters (including through inter-cluster coordination), humanitarian actors, government counterparts, and relevant authorities for operational planning, engagement and active contribution of operational partners.
- Be accountable to the affected population through effective and inclusive consultative and feedback mechanisms.
- Enhance and monitor performance of the core cluster functions, i.e.:
- Supporting service delivery
- Provide a platform to ensure that service delivery is driven by the agreed strategic priorities
- Develop and/or contextualize mechanisms to eliminate duplication of service delivery
- Informing strategic decision-making for the humanitarian response
- Needs assessment and gap analysis (across other sectors and within the sector)
- Analysis to identify and address (emerging) gaps, obstacles, duplication, and cross-cutting issues.
- Prioritization, grounded in response analysis
- Planning and strategy development
- Develop context-specific sectoral plans, objectives and indicators that directly support the realization of the nutrition cluster strategic priorities
- Application and adherence to existing standards and guidelines
- Clarify funding requirements and prioritization and provide input into the fundraising processes (Flash Appeal, AHF, CERF, etc.)
- Advocacy
- Identify advocacy concerns to contribute to nutrition cluster messaging and action
- Undertaking advocacy activities on behalf of cluster participants and the affected population
- Monitoring and reporting the implementation
- Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual reviews with the government and other counterparts.
- Enhance programme data analysis for action at subnational level.
- Participate and keep record of reports on surveys and assessments for easy reference and/or to capture and institutionalize lessons learned.
- Work closely and collaboratively with colleagues and partners to discuss facts and concerns found from monitoring. Provide solutions, recommendations and/or alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or decision-making.
- Monitor and report on the use of sectoral resources allocated to partners (financial, administrative and other assets), verifying compliance with approved allocation.
- Contingency planning/preparedness for recurrent disasters
- Contribute to risk profiling and analysis and subsequent contingency plans with relevant, context-specific inputs.
- Accountability to affected populations
- Promote information sharing, sensitization and community engagement
- Ensure effective and inclusive consultative and feedback mechanisms
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- 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/nutrition-related field.
- A minimum of two years of professional experience in a developing country in one or more of the following areas is required: nutrition, public health, nutrition planning and management, or maternal, infant and child health/nutrition care.
- Experience in programme/project coordination is an asset.
- Experience in health/nutrition programme/project development in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset
Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/570406
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