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 NSA Advisor will be based in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture & Livestock (FMOA&L) to work under the guidance of the Food and Nutrition Case Team (FNCT) responsible for the NSA agenda in the Ministry. The NSA Advisor will have functional responsibility to the Senior Technical Advisor for Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture, Alive & Thrive Ethiopia based in Addis Ababa.
In a harmonized manner with the FNCT’s action plans, the NSA Advisor will also work closely with the Senior MAIYCN Specialist seconded at the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), the Federal Program Delivery Unit (FPDU) of the Seqota Declaration, other BMGF investment advisors, focal persons of the government initiatives such as Sustainable Undernutrition Reduction in Ethiopia (SURE), Agriculture Transformation Agency (ATA), and other implementing partners working on NSA.
The NSA Advisor will provide hands-on technical support and coaching to the members of the FNCT and relevant nutrition focal persons of the NSA in the Ministry to effectively plan, budget for, and implement NSA. The NSA Advisor will help the Ministry to identify low-performing regions and provide them with on-the-job technical support they need to strengthen NSA in their regions. This could include strengthening their competencies, support systems or work environment. The NSA Advisor will be working very closely with the respective Regional NSA Advisors seconded to the Regional Bureaus of Agriculture and Livestock in six regions: Tigray, Afar, Amhara, Oromia, Somali and SNNPR.
Essential Job Functions/Roles and Responsibilities:
1. Provide technical assistance for nutrition-sensitive agriculture policies and programs
2. Support in assessments and planning
3. Support in capacity building and institutional development
4. Support in strategic use of data
Functional Competencies – Technical Expertise:
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Functional Competencies – Development and Operational Effectiveness:
Functional Competencies – program management and teamwork:
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Duration of Position :-One year, will be renewed annually
Number of position :-One (1)
Reports to :-Food and Nutrition Case Team, Ministry of Agriculture & Livestock
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Strong preference will be given to women candidates!
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