PROJECT SUMMARY
Alive & Thrive (A&T) is an initiative to save lives, prevent illness, and ensure healthy growth and development of infants and young children. Good nutrition in the first 1,000 days, from conception to two years of age, is critical to enable all children to lead healthier and more productive lives. A&T is scaling up improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and maternal nutrition through large-scale programs in several countries in Africa and Asia through strategic technical support and the dissemination of innovations, tools, and lessons worldwide.
Alive & Thrive Ethiopia 3.0 is a five-year investment funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to strengthen the institutional and human capacities required to achieve the Government of Ethiopia’s (GOE) ambitions for nutrition. Since 2009, A&T is working in Ethiopia within the context of the National Nutrition Program (NNP) and the National Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Strategy (NNSAS) to promote maternal, adolescent, infant and young child nutrition (MAIYCN) across multiple sectors at the federal, regional, woreda, and community levels. The A&T Ethiopia 3.0 investment will build upon successes and lessons learned from previous IYCF efforts to significantly improve MAIYCN practices. In this new grant, A&T will provide greater analytical, technical, and systems-building support to bolster the capacity of federal and regional authorities to develop, deliver, monitor, and evaluate quality MAIYCN services.
A&T Ethiopia 3.0 will work in partnership with the GOE and others to achieve the following three outcomes: 1) Sustained capacity at national level and among regional health bureaus to support woredas in planning, budgeting, implementing and using data to achieve MAIYCN targets in the NNP II; 2) Sustained capacity at national level and among regional agriculture bureaus to improve women’s and children’s dietary diversity, and access to safe, affordable and nutritious foods; and 3) Knowledge and learning generated and tools and lessons learned disseminated in priority technical areas for improved MAIYCN at scale.
Alive & Thrive is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the governments of Canada and Ireland. The initiative is managed by FHI 360.
POSITION SUMMARY
The overarching objective of the position is to be responsible for supporting the day-to-day activities of the Nutrition Case Team under the Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Core Process or the relevant reporting structure of the six respective Regional Health Bureaus in the areas of MAIYCN interventions planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation to achieve outcomes 1 and 3 indicated above, and ensure delivery of results with the agreed time frame and resources, cohesion across all MAIYCN related activities and efficient cooperation of the different stakeholders involved in the region, with special attention to the regional nutrition case team members for better MAIYCN outcomes.
The Regional Nutrition Advisor for MAIYCN support will be based in the respective RHBs and work under the guidance of the Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Core Process Owner/relevant respective structure based on the region’s context, and the Nutrition Officer with functional responsibility to the Deputy Programs Director of Alive and Thrive Ethiopia based in Addis Ababa. S/he will also work closely with the respective Regional Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture (NSA) Advisor seconded at the six Regional Agriculture & Livestock Bureaus, and the Regional Program Delivery Units (PDUs) of the Seqota Declaration. S/he will support the coordination of the work on a daily basis in collaboration with other BMGF investment advisors such as JSI-L10K, JSI-EDUP, and other implementing partners.
The Regional Nutrition Advisor for MAIYCN support will provide hands-on technical support and coaching to the nutrition case team members in the RHB and in zonal offices, to support woreda officials to effectively plan, budget for, and implement MAIYCN services. S/he will support forming a high-functioning regional nutrition project management team comprised of nutrition focal person and technical advisors, health information statisticians, and health extension program staff; work closely with these teams to plan project activities for MAIYCN service delivery, and to develop costed work plans including training, quality assurance measures that use nutrition data to strengthen MAIYCN service delivery, and supervision and coordination mechanisms.
The Regional Nutrition Advisor is envisioned to be a Senior Nutrition Expert who understands how public service in Ethiopia works, has sufficient program management experience with a results-oriented mindset, and has expertise in one or several areas related to MAIYCN and multi-sectoral nutrition coordination and linkages.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS/ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Summary of key functions: The Regional Nutrition Advisor is responsible for the day-to-day planning, implementation and monitoring of MAIYCN and overall NNP Implementation Plan in the regions. Specifically, s/he will focus on achievement of the following key results:
1. Provide technical assistance to MAIYCN implementation in the respective region:
2. Provide technical assistance to strategic use of nutrition data in the respective region:
3. Support the implementation of NNP in the respective region:
4. Support the multisectoral coordination of nutrition in the respective region:
FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES
Technical Expertise:
Knowledge Management and Learning:
Development and Operational Effectiveness:
Program management and teamwork:
Reports to :-The Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Core Process Owner at the RHB
Number of Required:-6
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
Education:
Experience:
Skills:
Additional Information:
Strong preference will be given to women candidates!
We offer competitive compensation and an outstanding benefit package. Please go to visit FHI 360's Career Center for a list of all open positions.
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