PROJECT SUMMARY
Alive & Thrive (A&T) is a global nutrition initiative to save lives, prevent illness, and ensure healthy growth of mothers and children. From 2009–2014, A&T demonstrated that rapid improvements in infant and young child feeding (IYCF) are possible in settings as diverse as Ethiopia, Bangladesh, and Viet Nam. In 2014, A&T began working in Burkina Faso, India, Nigeria, and throughout the Southeast Asia region, expanding its scope to include maternal and adolescent nutrition, and using agriculture and social protection programs as delivery mechanisms for maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN). Currently, A&T is leveraging its robust network and knowledge base to strengthen systems and build capacity in these and other countries across Africa and Asia, and disseminate innovations, tools, and lessons worldwide. The Alive & Thrive initiative, managed by FHI 360, is currently funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Irish Aid, the Tanoto Foundation, and UNICEF.
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, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) 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 MIYCN 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 MIYCN 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 federal l level and among regional health bureaus to support woredas in planning, budgeting, implementing and using data to achieve MIYCN targets in the NNP II; 2) Sustained capacity at federal 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 MIYCN and NSA at scale. Alive & Thrive Ethiopia 3.0 is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The initiative is managed by FHI 360.
As part of its systems strengthening and capacity building initiative, A&T has planned to support the Government of Ethiopia to strengthening the multisectoral nutrition coordination at national and regional levels through the regional FNCOs and hiring Senior Multi-sector nutrition Coordination Advisor at national level. The position holder is expected to oversee the overall FNCO activities and bridge the coordination gap between the regional FNCOs and the FMOH.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The overarching objective is to support the multisectoral nutrition coordination to ensure the establishment and functionality of national and regional coordination platform and safeguard the effective implementation of the National Nutrition program II and Food and Nutrition policy. The Senior Multisectoral Nutrition Coordination Advisor will ensure the 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 national nutrition case team members, regional nutrition focal persons/ units, the regional food and nutrition coordination offices, and the food and nutrition implementing sector focal persons The Advisor will also provide comprehensive and integrated support on the overall planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation to the FNCO activities and to the national nutrition case team.
The Senior Multisectoral Nutrition Coordination Advisor will be based in the Nutrition Case Team, Maternal and Child Health Directorate, Federal Ministry of Health, and will report to the Maternal and Child Health Directorate Director. S/he will support the establishment of Food and Nutrition Council and Agency; and strengthen the regional Food and Nutrition Coordination Offices (FNCOs). The Senior Multisectoral Nutrition Coordination Advisor is envisioned to be a seasoned expert in nutrition who understands how public service in Ethiopia works, has ample project management experience with a results-oriented mindset, and has expertise in one or several areas related to multi-sectoral coordination
Essential Job Functions/Roles and Responsibilities:
Summary of key functions: The Senior Multisectoral Nutrition Coordination Advisor is responsible for the day-to-day planning, implementation and monitoring of the national and regional food and nutrition coordination offices. Specifically, s/he will:
1. Lead Programme Implementation (focusing on achievement of the following key results):
2. Provide technical assistance to programme implementation (focusing on achievement of the following key results):
3. Ensure high-level coordination for programme implementation and knowledge management (focusing on achievement of the following key results):
Competencies and Critical Success Factors
Functional Competencies – Technical Expertise:
Functional Competencies – Knowledge Management and Learning:
Functional Competencies – Development and Operational Effectiveness:
Functional Competencies – Leadership and Teamwork:
Corporate Competencies:
Experience, Knowledge & Skills
Education:
Experience:
Key working relationships
Key core competencies
Additional Information: Works in a typical government office setting; working conditions include extensive travel to different regions, zones and sometimes woredas.
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