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Emergency Response Roster - Nutrition & Health Technical Advisor - In Emergency
Client: World Vision
Location: United Kingdom
Job Category: -
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 16fee02d8f6f
Job Views: 147
Posted: 16.03.2025
Expiry Date: 30.04.2025
Job Description:
Children’s lives can change in an instant in the wake of war, disasters and humanitarian emergencies. We see how vulnerable they are and how much they need our protection.
Joining our Emergency Response Roster means you can be a part of our response, providing immediate support when disaster strikes.
Here's where you come in:
As a Nutrition & Health Technical Advisor, your primary responsibility is to ensure the effective planning, implementation, and monitoring of nutrition and health programs in emergency settings. This entails providing technical guidance and support to enhance emergency response capabilities, with a specific focus on improving health and nutrition outcomes for affected populations.
You will collaborate with stakeholders to develop and implement evidence-based strategies, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services in alignment with humanitarian standards and guidelines. You'll play a vital role in resource mobilization efforts by developing capability statements and assisting in program design for funding proposals.
In your role, you will establish standards, share best practices, and foster partnerships with relevant stakeholders and institutions to strengthen program effectiveness. Furthermore, you'll closely collaborate with the health and nutrition working group and cluster to enhance external representation and coordination efforts.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
1. Lead the development of a sector response plan and provide strategic guidance for emergency health and nutrition response in the deployed country and emergency settings.
2. Provide technical guidance and leadership in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of nutrition and health programs in emergency settings.
3. Develop and oversee the implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for nutrition and health interventions.
4. Ensure compliance with humanitarian standards and guidelines in all program activities.
5. Provide technical support to ensure the successful implementation of emergency health and nutrition interventions, including nutrition assessments.
6. Build capacity in emergency health and nutrition assessment and survey methodologies.
7. Contribute to Response’s technical programs development and roll out with focus on child well-being through peace, protection and opportunity.
8. Provide technical support to Nutrition and health initiatives (both developmental and emergency nutrition) in the Response.
9. Provide leadership in mainstreaming and scaling up promising nutrition/health practices with special focus on integration.
10. Support assessment, monitoring and evaluation processes to monitor input, outcome and impact across the response on emergency nutrition/health programming.
11. Provide on-site technical support for existing and new health and nutrition projects.
12. Provide technical support for successful implementation of emergency and developmental nutrition/health research projects and publications.
13. Coordinate capacity building roll out plans for maternal Child health and establishing nutrition approaches and implementation of core intervention project models.
Resource Mobilization
1. Develop capability statements and contribute to program design for funding proposals.
2. Identify and pursue funding opportunities to support nutrition and health programs.
3. Liaise with donors and partners to secure resources for program implementation.
4. Develop high-quality concept notes and proposals for emergency health and nutrition projects.
External Engagement
1. Assist in planning annual external engagement strategy.
2. Engage with external stakeholders, including government agencies, NGOs, and UN agencies, to coordinate and advocate for nutrition and health interventions.
3. Support significant Response-level donor and technical partner engagements for nutrition/health resource development and information sharing.
4. Represent the organization in relevant coordination meetings, clusters, and working groups.
5. Participate in relevant forums and conferences to share best practices and lessons learned.
Evidence and Learning
1. Identify nutrition operations research (OR) and implementation research (IR) priorities in the response.
2. Support OR and IR design.
3. Identify and disseminate best practices, lessons learned, and innovations in nutrition from the response.
4. Develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation plan for nutrition and health programs.
5. Analyze data and generate evidence to inform programmatic decisions and improve outcomes.
Nexus Approach
1. Ensure integration and coherence between nutrition, health, and other sectors in program planning and implementation.
2. Advocate for a holistic approach that addresses the interconnectedness of nutrition, health, and other sectors.
3. Strengthen the implementation of the Nexus Approach by ensuring integration on humanitarian/development/peacebuilding initiatives.
4. Focus on working in collaboration and complementarity between humanitarian and development actors.
Collaboration and Cross Functional Work
1. In collaboration with M&E, Communications review Our Impact annual reports and provide feedback as needed.
2. Provide technical support and review for process monitoring and some outcome and impact M&E in collaboration with regional DME teams.
3. Together with advocacy director, ensure Response understand nutrition/health related advocacy issues and campaigning inputs for strategy.
4. Coordinate H&N community of practice (CoP) in the Response.
5. Facilitate capacity building initiatives for staff and partners on nutrition and health-related topics.
Other Responsibilities
1. Support the development and implementation of organizational policies and procedures related to nutrition and health.
2. Contribute to organizational learning by sharing knowledge and experiences with colleagues.
3. Attend and participate in weekly chapel services and daily devotional meetings.
4. Carry out additional responsibilities and projects as assigned, including administrative and planning functions.
Knowledge, Skill and Experience
Required Education, Training, License, Registration, and/or Certification
1. Master Degree in Public Health, Nutrition or related field.
2. Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills, particularly in a cross-cultural environment.
3. Strong planning and organizational skills and ability to prioritize multiple activities.
4. Ability to represent WV, particularly with donors and partners.
5. Experience managing field-level programs.
6. Experience working remotely.
Required Professional Experience
1. At least 5-7 years of relevant experience in humanitarian emergency response, with a focus on nutrition and health in emergency settings.
2. Demonstrated experience in planning, implementing, and monitoring nutrition and health programs in emergency settings.
3. Strong technical expertise in emergency nutrition and health.
4. Proven experience in providing technical guidance and support to enhance emergency response capabilities.
5. Experience in collaborating with stakeholders to develop and implement evidence-based strategies.
6. Significant bi-lateral, multi-lateral donor grant experience.
7. Experience in resource mobilization.
8. Knowledge of and experience in establishing standards and building partnerships.
9. Familiarity with the health and nutrition working group and cluster coordination mechanisms.
10. Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
11. Knowledge of World Vision operations, regional and national office programming preferable.
12. Must be a creative individual with strong sense of vision, commitment and priorities.
13. Demonstrated commitment to World Vision’s mission statement and Core Values.
14. Proven track record of growing communities of practice and influencing senior field stakeholders.
15. Able to think and plan strategically and do practical field assessments.
16. Experience in development of projects, training materials, conducting training and providing technical assistance.
17. Understanding of the sector, donor and UN landscape for ESCA.
18. Technical skills: Knowledge of ESCA Project models and approaches is desirable.
19. Other: Clear communication skills, written and spoken high influencer, engager and an innovator.
Preferred Experience, Knowledge and/or Other Qualifications
1. Highly developed external engagement and networking skills.
2. Strong project management skills.
3. Excellent writing skills.
4. Demonstrated willingness to be flexible and versatile in a changing work environment.
5. Ability to motivate and develop staff.
6. Experience leading a task force or community of practice.
7. Understanding of climate change risks and challenges.
8. Strong understanding of global strategies and frameworks on environmental stewardship and climate change.
9. Knowledge on legal international conventions related to health and Nutrition.
10. Strong negotiation, collaboration, networking, liaison, and donor engagement skills.
11. Demonstrated proficiency using Excel, Microsoft Suite of products, databases and statistical packages.
12. Ability to think broadly and look at the macro, strategic issues.
13. Critical thinking skills to relate work performed to broader business context.
Required Travel and/or Work Environment Accommodations
1. Ability to travel to/within domestically and Internationally as required.
2. Work hours are often in excess of 12 hours per day during difficult periods of the response.
3. Responses are often mounted in insecure or natural disaster-prone contexts.
4. Work and housing environments may at times be well below normal standards.
Effective written and verbal communication in English. Other UN languages such as French, Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese, are preferred.
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