Project Overview
Growth through Nutrition (GROWTH THROUGH NUTRITION) – is five year multi-sector nutrition project in Ethiopia (2016-2021). It is a follow-on Activity to USAID’s flagship multi-sector nutrition project—Empowering New Generations to Improve Nutrition and Economic opportunities (ENGINE). Save the Children in partnership with its Government partners (MoH, MOA, MOE, SHE, MOWIE and their decentralized structures), International NGOs and local NGOs (drives the implementation of Growth through Nutrition using a powerful, multi-sector platform comprised of evidence-based nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions.
The purpose of the USAID Growth through Nutrition activity is to improve the nutritional status of women and young children in the four productive regions with a focus on the first 1,000 days from pregnancy to a child’s second birthday—the critical window of opportunity for a child’s growth and development. The development hypothesis for this Activity is: if sustained access to diverse, safe, and quality foods is achieved and optimal nutrition, WASH, and agriculture behaviours are adopted and quality nutrition services are utilized and access to WASH products and services is improved and multi-sector coordination and GOE capacity to implement effective nutrition and WASH programs is strengthened, then the nutritional status of women and young children will be improved. Growth through Nutrition has four essential cross-cutting elements: Gender equality and women’s empowerment, a rigorous learning agenda, sustainable approaches, and convergence/overlay of multi-sector nutrition interventions (e.g. agriculture, livelihoods, education, health, humanitarian assistance) and WASH activities in the same geographic areas.
USAID Growth through Nutrition will build on ENGINE’s investments in 83 Agricultural Growth Program (AGP) (food secure) and 17-non AGP (food insecure) and will target at least 80 food secure woredas and 20 food insecure woredas (PSNP and emergency hot spot woredas) in the in USAID/Ethiopia’s Feed the Future Zone of Influence of Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
The Advisor will play a pivotal role in guiding the implementation of technically sound and innovative approaches, in close collaboration with GOE and Feed the Future partners, to increase household production of nutritious and diverse foods; increase availability and affordability of nutritious foods in the markets; improve technologies for food storage, preservation, and processing; develop SBCC approaches to influence household production and consumption practices, and increase assets and steady income for
vulnerable households. He/she coordinates with Growth through Nutrition advisors to ensure that nutrition sensitive approaches are state of the art and integrated with other project components. He/she provides technical leadership to livelihood and agriculture staff at regional and zonal levels. He/she Represents Growth through Nutrition with Government of Ethiopia, particularly MoA, to support on NSA policy development and program implementation and participates in Government of Ethiopia technical working groups on NSA and livelihoods. He/she provides technical oversight of the work of on NSA and livelihoods implemented through sub-prime partner, Land O’Lakes.
He/she aligns the projects annual work plan with government priorities, updating project performance challenges and lessons learned in agriculture sectors, and coordinating and conducting joint field monitoring and review meetings with the government and partners using existing government and partner platforms. He/she will ensure close coordination with other USAID and other donor funded nutrition projects and the delivery of joint work plans with partners. He/she is expected to play key role in integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment, a rigorous learning agenda, sustainable approaches, and convergence/overlay of multi-sector nutrition interventions (e.g. agriculture, livelihoods, education, health, humanitarian assistance) in the same geographic areas. He/she is responsible to build capacities of regional team to support re-establishment and strengthening of nutrition multisectoral coordination (coordination body and technical committee) at regional and woreda levels. He/she is responsible for routine reporting on agriculture and livelihoods activities, and writing technical briefs and reports as needed and engaging in operations research related to livelihoods and agriculture. He/she is also responsible in review of partner work plans, monitor implementation, ensuring quality and timely submission of monthly, quarterly and annual reports and other deliverables to Country office.
Reports to: DCOP Programs
Staff Directly Reporting to this Post:
Technical Leadership and External Representation
Provides technical direction and oversight to the various agriculture and livelihoods components of the program including increase household production of nutritious and diverse foods; increase availability and affordability of nutritious foods and agricultural inputs in the markets; improve technologies for food storage, preservation, and processing; develop SBCC approaches to influence household production and consumption practices, and increase assets and steady income for vulnerable households.
Staff Capacity and Management
Planning and Reporting
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
Ambition:
Collaboration:
Creativity:
Integrity:
MINIMUM QUALFICATION, EXPEREINCE, COMPETENCIES
QUALIFICATION
EXPERIENCE
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITY
COMPETENCIES
SC Values are: Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity. To meet the value system the post holder is expected to demonstrate the following Competencies on ongoing bases (this varies according to the position please consider the below as example).
Leading (align with Ambition, Integrity collaboration and creativity)
Leading and Inspiring Others: Demonstrate leadership in all our work, role models our values and articulates a compiling vision to inspire to achieve our goals for children
Developing Self and Others: Invest time and energy to actively develop self and others to help realise their full potential and to build the organization capability for the further.
Thinking (align with Ambition, creativity, Collaboration and Creativity)
Innovating and Adapting: Develop and implement innovative solutions to adapt and succeed in an ever-changing uncertain work and global environment.
Engaging ( align with Collaboration, Creativity, Networking: Builds and use sustainable relationship to support the work of save the children