Job Title: Senior Nutrition Specialist for MAIYCN support
Reports to: Maternal and Child Health Directorate, Ministry of Health
Number of position: One (1)
Location: Federal Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Starting Salary: Within the Band Salary range and Commensurate with education & Experience
Duration of Position: One year, will be renewed annually
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.
Main purpose of the role
The overarching objective is to be responsible for supporting the day-to-day activities of the Nutrition Case Team at FMOH in the areas of MAIYCN interventions planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation to ensure delivery of results with the agreed time frame and resources, cohesion across all activities and efficient cooperation of the different stakeholders involved, with special attention to the case team members, regional nutrition focal/units, the technical focal points in all the National Nutrition Program (NNP) implementing ministries for better MAIYCN outcomes.
The Senior Nutrition Specialist for MAIYCN will be based in the Federal Ministry of Health – Maternal & Child Health Directorate, Nutrition Case Team and will report to the Directorate Director. S/he will support the coordination of the work on a daily basis of the MAIYCN activities. The Senior Nutrition Specialist for MAIYCN will have functional responsibility to the Deputy Country Programs Director, Alive and Thrive Ethiopia based in Addis Ababa.
The Specialist is envisioned to be a Senior Nutrition Expert who understands how public service in Ethiopia works, has ample 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.
Summary of key functions: The Senior Nutrition Specialist for MAIYCN is responsible for the day-to-day planning, implementation and monitoring of the MAIYCN and overall NNP Implementation Plan as approved by the National Nutrition Coordinating Body (NNCB) Work Plans. Specifically, s/he will:
2. Provide technical assistance to MAIYCN implementation (focusing on achievement of the following key results):
Functional Competencies – Technical Expertise:
Functional Competencies – Knowledge Management and Learning:
Functional Competencies – Development and Operational Effectiveness:
Functional Competencies – program management and teamwork:
Corporate Competencies:
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Key working relationships
Key core competencies
Candidates will be assessed against the following behavioral and technical competencies:
Additional Information: Works in a typical government office setting; working conditions include extensive travel to different regions, zones and sometimes woredas.