Deadline: 11 February 2022
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is currently seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Nutrition Specialist in Niamey, Niger. The duration of this post is 10 months.
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Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Nutrition Specialist will perform the following functions:
- Strengthen Nutrition coordination
- Support the Nutrition Directorate of the Ministry of Health and the HC3N to maintain and expand partnerships among nutrition stakeholders, ensure a functional coordination mechanism for Nutrition through notably facilitation of Technical Working Group meetings, knowledge and information management and sharing and ensure the full participation of current nutrition sector partners.
- Promote and support governance mechanism that aligns humanitarians and development goals for Nutrition
- Invigorate sector coordination mechanisms at national and sub-national levels including working groups (emergency, IMAM, IYCF, micronutrients, survey/monitoring and evaluation, etc.).
- Planning and strategy development
- By collaborating with the Nutrition Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist P3, contribute to situation and gap analysis and monitoring of the nutrition situation.
- Monitoring and reporting
- By collaborating closely with the Nutrition Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist P3, provide an analytical interpretation of best available information in order to benchmark progress of the Nutrition programs over time.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have:
- Advanced University Degree in one of the following fields is required nutrition, public health, nutritional epidemiology, global/international health and nutrition, health/nutrition research, policy and/or management, health sciences, nutritional epidemiology, or another health-related science field.
- Minimum 5 year’s professional experience in a developing country in one or more of the following areas is required nutrition, public health, nutrition planning and management, or maternal, infant and child health/nutrition care.
- Experience in partners coordination in emergency (nutrition cluster) and non-emergency (nutrition sector) settings.
- Experience in technical assistance for enhanced nutrition national governance.]
- Experience in resource mobilization (proposal development, donor reporting).
- Experience in health / nutrition programme / project development and management in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
- Fluency in French is mandatory, and a working knowledge of English is required.
- Fluency in Spanish and English is required.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications through online process.
For more information, visit UNICEF.
