4-January-2024
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL VACANCY ADVERTISEMENT For Nutrition and Health Program Manager Country Office: Ethiopia Work Base: [Borena] Availability: As Soon As Possible Salary Scale: EMS - 09 level 1 $1,407 Insurance - (Life, Group Personal Accident and Medical Insurances are covered upon the organization policies). Seniority Allowance – paid depending up the years of service. Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply for this position. |
About Action Against Hunger
Action Against Hunger-USA is a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger. We save the lives of malnourished children and we enable entire communities to be free from hunger. With more than 8,000 staff in over 50 countries, our programs reached 17 million people in 2019.
About the Country Program in Ethiopia
Action Against Hunger has been operational in Ethiopia since 1984 responding to both chronic and acute needs through a multi-sectoral strategy where nutrition, Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH, and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support activities are integrated to have a meaningful impact on people’s resilience. Action Against Hunger currently operates in 5 different regions (Oromia, Somali, Amhara, Benishangul Gumuz, and Gambella) with a portfolio of 20m USD/year of emergency, resilience building, research, and innovation programs. We have a country team of around 600 staff in 17 regional and satellite offices. Our main donors in Ethiopia in 2020/2021 are BHA, ECHO, Europaid, UNHCR, UNICEF, GFFO, BPRM, SIDA, EHF, WFP, CIAA, and others.
I. Summary of position
The Nutrition and Health Program Manager is responsible for the overall management of Nutrition and Health projects in the host communities in Borena, Oromia region under the direct supervision of the Field Coordinator and with technical support by capital based experts/advisors. The Nutrition and Health Program is responsible for providing collective and close budget monitoring of Nutrition and Health projects, ensuring strict compliance to organizational policies, procedures, set standards, protocols and guidelines. The Nutrition and Health Program Manager will ensure that RMNCH, CMAM, IYCF-E, GMP, innovative activities such as Family MUAC approaches, Surveys and assessments and operational researches in the respective base are delivered in accordance with standard guidelines. S/he is expected to lead and participate in designing high quality nutrition and health project proposals and generating program lessons in close collaboration with his technical supervisors, other departments and other key stakeholders at local level. S/he is also expected to capacitate, encourage, supervise and guide the nutrition and health team at the base level to ensure that basic life-saving services are provided to intended beneficiaries or clients to the highest standard of care and norm. The Nutrition and Health Manager is expected to strengthen and maintain productive working relationships within and outside the organisation, and should work effectively with local government authorities, beneficiaries or clients, key donors and other partners. In addition, he/she will represent Action Against Hunger at regular local level nutrition and health sector task force meetings and coordination platforms. S/he will be expected to establish and maintain the highest standards of professional integrity in line with Action Against Hunger's values, principles and code of conduct.
The Nutrition and Health PM role’s purpose, engagement, and delivery are:
Purpose (The substantive focus of the job encompassing scope, depth and difficulty of work both conceptual and applied)
Engagement: (The focus of interaction both internally and externally needed to deliver a service seek collaboration and build effective partnerships)
Delivery: (The focus on the execution of the work and the role on the team for supporting business/operational functions in terms of timeliness and quality)
Essential Duties:
1. Ensure the implementation and compliance to quality standards of major nutrition and health activities in host community:
2. Participate in project MEAL activities:
· Ensure that weekly/ monthly data compilation and reporting of activities for internal and external consumptions are produced and submitted timely.
3. External coordination, representation and communication in the field of Nutrition and Health at regional and local level:
4. Human Resource Management and staff development:
II. Supervisory Responsibilities
III. Gender Equality Commitments
IV. Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA):
V. Fiscal Responsibility
VI. Physical Demands
VII. Working Conditions, Travel and Environment
I. Required Qualifications and Professional Experience
II. Required Skills and Experiences