Nutrition Officer

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• Support and monitor the functioning of the regional Food and Nutrition Multisectoral Coordination mechanism, annual multisectoral nutrition planning, budget allocation, reviewing of progress, and reporting.
• Share learnings from the regional Food and Nutrition Coordination Unit. Identify and leverage experiences in multisectoral coordination of nutrition data both within the region and national level.
• Encourage sharing learnings and developing a learning culture across other regions and partners involved in implementing multisectoral nutrition programming.
• Develop a strategy for monitoring, evaluation, and learning capacity assessment and capacity building to deepen multisectoral nutrition data use for decision-making.
• Monitor training to regional, zonal, and woreda managers to plan and implement nutrition-specific and sensitive interventions.

• Monitoring the development of standard data collection tools and Standard Operating procedures for UNISE expansion in targeted woreda and Seqota Declaration expansion phase woredas
• Monitor the development of a training plan for the expansion of UNSIE to 128 targeted woredas and Seqota Declaration Phase through the integration of Universities. 
• Ensure provision of training on the existing UNSIE end-user training manual to 120 targeted woredas and SD expansion phase woredas through the integration of Universities.
• Ensure functionality of UNISE at regional, zonal, and woreda level sectors and effective use of data through supportive supervision and coaching.
• Ensure the system captures nutrition data, analyses, and generates reports for effective decision-making and planning.
• Organize a forum for sharing Experiences from UNISE implementation and its expansion in targeted woredas and Seqota Declaration expansion woredas.
• Facilitate evidence-informed decision-making using available and timely multisectoral data through UNISE.
• Support nutrition information systems and monitor the multisectoral nutrition coordination monitoring through ODK.
• Support and follow up the data entry of the woreda-based multisectoral nutrition stakeholder mapping, report generation, and preparation of briefs.

• Support the development of tools for tracking nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive budgets.
• Conduct capacity needs assessment of the nutrition implementation sectors to enhance accounting and reporting on nutrition expenditure.
• Prepare budget briefs for multisectoral nutrition implementations.
• Monitoring and support to strengthen nutrition expenditure systems, including procurement
• Support improving the visibility of nutrition in government budgets, budget classifications, and charts of accounts.
• Support Multisectoral Nutrition Coordination Operational Research.
• Follow up on implementing recommended strategies and implementation plan of the nutrition-specific and multisectoral nutrition coordination operational research.
• Ensure the provision of training and required supplies available for the implementation of operational research.
• Organize a forum to review the progress of operational research with MOH and other development partners.
• Organza a forum for the dissemination of research findings.
• Review/prepare manuscripts of the   research findings for publication.

• A first University Degree in  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.
• A minimum of two [2 years] of relevant professional experience ina 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 health/nutrition programme/project development in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
• A good understanding of the ‘Seqota’ Declaration and the Government of Ethiopia’s response to child undernutrition will be an advantage.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative research and study design and implementation, preferably in nutrition is an asset.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered 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.

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