Position: FNCO President Advisor
Reports to: The Regional President Advisor
Functional: RHB/MOH Nutrition Case Team and Alive & Thrive Ethiopia Nutrition Technical Director
Number of positions: One
Location: Somali Region Administration President’s Office
Job Family: Management
Starting Salary: Within the Band Salary Range (Band L)
Duration of Position: One year, with possibility of renewal
BACKGROUND
Ethiopia has made a remarkable progress in reducing child malnutrition with a decrease in national stunting rates among children under five from 58 per cent to 38 per cent over the past 15 years through a concerted multi-sectoral effort. To accelerate this promising progress, Ethiopia made an ambitious new declaration that envisions ending child undernutrition by 2030, named the ‘Seqota’ declaration and Develop Food and Nutrition Policy. The National Nutrition Program is implemented through multi-sectoral approaches, with different sectors playing key roles in executing nutrition-specific and sensitive interventions. In addition, the progress made in food and nutrition has contributed to the reduction of under-five mortality from 166 in 2000 to 67 per 1000 children in 2016 enabling Ethiopia to achieve the Millennium Development goals ahead of time and increase in estimated average life expectancy at birth from 45 years in 1990 to 64 years in 2016.
POSITION SUMMARY
Multi-sectoral nutrition coordinating bodies and technical committees are established at national, regional, zonal and woreda levels to coordinate and mainstream nutrition activities in their respective administrative purviews. The health sector has been responsible for chairing the coordination bodies and technical committees at all levels, but challenged by inadequate engagement from the implementing sectors, some of the limitations includes governance; coordination; monitoring & evaluations; nutrition capacity; and nutrition specific and sensitive interventions information availability and use. To address this, the government of Ethiopia develop food and nutrition policy, which will ensure the accountability of sectors and give legal frame works. To accelerate the implementation of food and nutrition policy and NNP-II, the regional president Advisor will be recruited in regional states to support the regional coordination, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of Food and Nutrition Policy and NNP II. The Regional President Advisor of the Food and Nutrition Coordination Unit is accountable for strengthen Food and Nutrition multi-sectoral coordination at regional level. The Food and Nutrition president advisor will ensure the functionality and success of the multisectoral food and nutrition coordination by ensuring the capacity of a secretariat that feeds the coordinating body with the appropriate information for decision making. In addition, the position will be supporting and strengthening nutrition multi-sectoral coordination, nutrition information systems, and monitoring and quality assurance components of NNP implementation across all regions. Evidence informed decision making in food and nutrition requires the availability of timely multi-sectoral data.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS/ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Summary of key functions: The Regional Food and Nutrition President’s Advisor will be based at the president’s office and work under the guidance of the Regional President Advisor with functional responsibility to the RHB/MOH Nutrition Case Team and Technical Director/Nutrition of the Alive and Thrive Ethiopia. His/her overarching responsibility is maintaining effective coordination and partnership with key stakeholders, as well as ensuring effective communication between NNP implementing sector Bureaus, all woredas, zones, development partners and other stakeholders. She/he would ensure harmonization/alignment and integration of both nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions undertaken by sector bureaus and development partners in the region. Overall, the President’s advisor serves as a liaison between the regional presidents and regional bureaus as well as the zonal and woreda administration to handle issues which needs political and administration decisions.
The main responsibilities of the post are:
1) Programme planning, monitoring and reporting at regional level
2) Representation and coordination (internal and external)
Expected Deliverables
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Additional Information: Works in a typical government office setting; working conditions include extensive travel within the region to Zone and Woredas.