Health and Nutrition Advisor, Horn of Africa Child Wasting Initiative at Concern Worldwide

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical support on Health and Nutrition components of the CWI to country teams to assist with programme design, implementation, and improving the measurement of the impact of Concern’s Health and Nutrition work ensuring that activities are in line with expected outcomes and objectives
• Build the technical capacity of programme teams through remote support and country visits including formal trainings, webinars, workshops, remote mentoring, programme reviews and evaluations, production and sharing of key technical resources.
• Ensure timely and high-quality reports and that information for monthly, partner and donor reports are high quality, accurate, and reliable
• Synthesize and document practical evidence and learning from the programme; identify ways to apply it in a timely fashion to improve policy and practice within and beyond Concern.
• Provide general support to programmes such as planning of assessments and surveys and ensure dissemination of findings and results for decision-making and use in national and global advocacy.
• Support and develop relationships with other agencies in the area of Health and Nutrition in general, including research institutes, technical working groups and represent Concern in national and regional fora as required.
• Support the Advocacy unit to feed into regional and international policy discussions related to Health and Nutrition especially around Concern’s three advocacy themes – hunger, conflict, climate change.
• Contribute to the prioritization, design, implementation and dissemination of operational research undertaken within programme – in collaboration with field teams and research partners.
• Represent Concern and actively participate in various nutrition and health technical forums at regional level in order to promote best practice and advance policy
• Potentially be deployed to support emergency responses in the programme areas.

Person Specification

Minimum Education, Qualifications & Experience Required:

• Masters in Nutrition, Public Health or equivalent qualification
• A minimum of ten years’ experience working in the area of Health and Nutrition in an NGO or development agency in technical support and/or programme management
• Experience in implementing, planning, and measuring the impact of health, nutrition, behaviour change, hunger reduction or other related programmes
• Experience in CMAM and CMAM/Health Surge Approach
• Strong understanding of Health and Nutrition programming in fragile and resource poor settings. Prior experience in emergency, conflict settings, or fragile states.
• Strong understanding of gender issues in relation to Health and Nutrition programmes and practical ways to promote gender equality within them.
• Experience working in integrated, multi-sectoral programmes. Ability to work both as part of a team and independently. Adaptable to evolving work priorities and schedules.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and writing skills in English
• Ability to travel internationally, at least 40%, in fragile and conflict affected contexts, sometimes with short noticev

Desirable:

• Understanding of adaptive programme management concepts such as anticipatory action (AA), crisis modifier, early warning early action (EWEA)
• Experience in supporting the roll out of cross cutting approaches (e.g. conflict, environment, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), equality, protection)
• Experience working with research institutions, coordination fora and other relevant international/regional Health and Nutrition institutions
• Prior work experience with Concern in one of the country programmes

Preference will be given to candidates who have:

• High integrity and demonstrated ability to follow standards and policies
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and values
• Commitment to adhere to the standards of conduct outlined in the Code of Conduct and Associated Policies

Interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, should send a detailed CV with three referees and Cover Letter Only to nairobi.hr@concern.net with the subject of the email as 'Health and Nutrition Advisor, HoA on or before Friday 22nd December 2023. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.