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Nutrition International (formerly the Micronutrient Initiative) is passionate about tackling one of the world’s greatest health issues: malnutrition. Recognized as global experts, we work around the world to create effective and sustainable solutions for hidden hunger. Nutrition International has headquarters in Ottawa, Canada and regional offices in N...
Terms of Reference (ToRs)
Nutrition International is committed to the fundamental principles of equal employment opportunity. Women are encouraged to apply.
Background
Technical Assistance for Nutrition (TAN) is a project led by the United Kingdom’s UKaid which seeks to improve the capacity of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) countries to design, deliver, and track the progress of nutrition programs and to generate, learn from and adopt knowledge of what works. Nutrition International is contributing to TAN by coordinating the provision of technical assistance (TA) to help national SUN Focal Points in select countries to overcome gaps in capacity for the design and delivery of multi-sectoral national nutrition plans, and to the SUN Movement Secretariat (SMS); tapping into its global hub to source and deploy the expertise needed.
Nutrition International works with 20 countries who have joined the SUN Movement to articulate priority TA needs, develop relevant Terms of Reference (ToRs), recruit and manage quality TA providers to best meet countries needs. Given an increased demand for TA, Nutrition International is seeking temporary services from a nutrition professional with recruitment and programming experience to support an anticipated increased volume of TA support in early 2018.
Objectives
The successful consultant will be expected to provide high quality support to the Nutrition International TAN team, with programmatic and technical activities, recruitment, contracting and other administrative duties which are required to support contracting of new TAs. Specifically, key tasks are listed below:
Programmatic/technical (related to leading and supporting ToR development)
Scope of Work
Applicants are requested to present specific relevant experience to complete objectives, along with proposed daily or monthly fee rate as part of their submission.
Duty Station/Location
The Consultant will work from the Nutrition International Africa Regional office (Nairobi, Kenya) for the duration of this assignment, and will liaise regularly with TAN staff based in Nairobi and other Nutrition International offices.
Timeline
This 4-month consultancy is expected to start in February 2018 and be completed in May 2018, (exact timelines to be determined in consultation with Nutrition International).
Management and Reporting/Coordination mechanism
The Consultant will report to Nutrition Internationa TAN Africa Manager, based in Nairobi.
Profile/qualifications of consultant
An experienced nutrition programming professional with general management experience (recruitment, contracting, etc.) will be required to complete all aspects of this consultancy.
The consultant is expected to have the following qualifications and experience:
Interested consultants are invited to submit the following by email to: TechnicalAssistance@nutritionintl.org before December 29th, 2017. Only complete applications will be reviewed.
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