Reference:
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RD/MOZ/NM
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Country:
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Mozambique
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Job Title:
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Nutrition Manager
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Contract
Grade: B
Contract
Length: 2 Years
Date
Needed By: ASAP
New
Post or Replacement: New Post
Accompanied
/ Unaccompanied: Accompanied, (schools, including
English Language Cambridge Certified Primary School facilities are available)
Exact
Job Location: Chimoio, Manica Province
Reports
To: ACD Programmes
Responsible
For: 1
Nutrition Counterpart and the Social Capital Manager + team (c. 10 field staff)
Liaises With: The Food Income and Markets Program Manager,
the Country Director, the Beria Agricultural Growth Corridor Nutrition
Coordinator, the Concern Program Support
Officer and wash teams. Coordinate with
ministries, international agencies, Private Sector AgBiz Companies in the Beira
Agricultural Growth Corridor, NGOs, partners and other stakeholders
particularly working in health, nutrition and agriculture and supporting
representation and technical meetings at provincial and national level.
Job
Purpose:
Manage a multi-sector nutrition sensitive
project within a wider FIM program and support the linkage of Concern nutrition
sensitive programming to the strategic development of nutrition in the Beira
Agricultural Growth Corridor.
Main
Duties & Responsibilities:
Leadership and Capacity Building
•
Provide proactive leadership and management in
developing and implementing the project, promote best practices, contribute to
on-going learning and documentation and develop new programming opportunities.
•
Manage the Behaviour Change component for
Nutrition through the Social Capital Manager and SC teams.
•
Ensure that nutrition specific and sensitive
actions undertaken by Concern teams , MoA and MoH in the Concern operational
districts (up to 3 in Manica Province and 2 in Zambezia) are effective and that
the impact is captured through an effective M+E system.
•
Undertake frequent field visits; work directly
with MoA and MoH district staff, lead oversight of the M+E and practice in the
field and mentoring of the Food Security and Social Capital mobilization teams.
•
With the Food Income and Markets Program
Manager (FIM PM) ensure that the FIM team effectively adopts nutrition
sensitive approaches, including behaviour change, and has the skills, knowledge
and tools to subsequently train community members and MoA staff adopt and use
those practices.
•
Recruit and train a Mozambican national
counterpart to increasingly take the lead of day to day management of the
Social Capital teams with the objective of the counterpart taking lead
management of the project after three years.
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Provide technical assistance (advice,
training, capacity building, documentation, etc.) for all Concern Mozambique staff
and counterparts involved with the overall FIM+ Nut programme.
•
Provide technical assistance (advice,
training, capacity building, documentation, etc.) for all Concern Mozambique staff
and programme counterparts.
•
Provide leadership to Local Government,
including SETSAN, and support multi-sectoral coordination between MoH, MoA, MoE
and Social Protection by operationalizing and monitoring the national nutrition
and nutrition sensitive agricultural policies.
•
Build relationships and networks with nutrition
sector, communicate constructively and build Concern’s profile in nutrition in
Mozambique.
Support to the Beira Agricultural Growth Corridor
•
Recruit and coordinate with a Mozambican a
Nutrition Coordinator in the Beira Agricultural Growth Corridor Secretariat. The BAGC Nutrition Coordinator will be
managed by the BAGC Secretariat. The
BAGC Nutrition Coordinator will receive technical backstopping and support from
the Concern Nutrition Manager and Concern Nutrition TA.
•
Contribute to developing a nutrition strategy
in the BAGC program and the promotion of value chains for nutrition. This action supports the development of SME
Agri-Businesses with the precursor that poor farmers are drawn into the
production cycle. Support the Nutrition
Coordinator promote practices which have positive nutritional outcomes for the
poor farmer producer networks, the documentation of lessons and advocacy on
findings.
•
Recruit two (nutrition) staff to operate in a
Private catalytic company supporting SME’s in Agri-Business in the BAGC. These two staff will operationalize the field
work and SME management actions in the BAGC Nutrition Strategy. They will be managed by the SME and BAGC Nut
Coordinator.
Management
•
Manage the Nutrition Counterpart to
provide direct technical and managerial nutrition support at the district
levels in Manica and Zambezia. This
support will be to FIM and Social Capital Program Officers and Community
Mobilizers.
•
Manage the Social Capital Team leader and
team though which the Nutrition and Nutrition/Empowerment elements of the
programme are delivered.
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Ensure the timely delivery of all nutrition
project targets, tools, outputs, surveys and reporting and that these are
achieved in line with the budgets, programme frameworks, work plans and donor
rules.
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Manage all project resources and assets effectively which
are under your responsibility.
•
Develop and implement project plans, project reviews
and evaluations in line with the project Implementation Schedule.
•
Ensure a strong and effective M+E system
is in place, managed and data analysed and used for program management. In this
work with the ACD programmes, National Systems Manager, Program Managers, and
technical headquarter advisors (including Nutrition, M+E, Food Income and
Markets, DRR, WASH and HIV/AIDS).
o Activities
include nutrition surveys, Behaviour Change KAP’s and, routine weekly and
monthly data collection, quarterly reviews, annual impact assessments,
operational research and other qualitative or quantitative surveys undertaken
under the health and nutrition department.
This is likely to include Digital Data Collection and collaboration with
the DDC team in Concern H.
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Financial Management - Hold, manage and oversee the nutrition budget
by providing monthly feedback on management accounts.
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Provide nutritional expertise across program sectors
working especially with the FIM PM
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Ensure all programme staff/partners are
understand and adhere to Concern’s policies and procedures, Programme
Participant Protection Policy, Humanitarian Accountability Project principles
and commitments.
•
Manage technical consultants as required.
Reporting
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Ensure high quality and timely reports are
developed for donors and counterparts.
•
Produce meaningful and analytic monthly reports,
Quarterly reports to DFID and contribute to other donor and annual reports.
•
Lead in nutrition and support FIM in writing
survey reports, technical reports or other reporting related to the nutrition
programme
•
Initiate the writing up of learning papers for
internal and external audience working closely with the global technical
advisors.
Representation/Coordination
•
Liaise closely with Food Income and Markets staff
to ensure program integration
•
Coordinate with the Concern SUN group.
•
Represent Concern with the MoH, Secretariat
for Nutrition (SETSAN – responsible for SUN), MoA in both Manica and Zambezia
provinces, also via the counterpart
•
Develop and maintain excellent professional
relationships with programme partners, including MOH, MOH, SETSAN, UNICEF, BAGC
secretariat and other implementing NGOs.
•
Coordinate well with ministries, international
agencies, NGOs, partners, private sector partners and other stakeholders
particularly working in nutrition, health, and agriculture in the target regions
to further the aims of the multi-sectoral programme and Concern.
PERSON
SPECIFICATION
ESSENTIAL
·
Full working knowledge of
Portuguese; fluent spoken English will be an important advantage in the
selection process. In absence of Portuguese, Spanish and Italian may be assets
to be considered on a case-by-case approach.
•
Masters in Nutrition, Public
Health or equivalent qualification.
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At least 5 years of relevant
experience in public health and project/programme management, with significant
experience in developing/managing health and nutrition projects in a
development context
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Experience working in behaviour
based IYCF and M+E
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Experience in social and
behavioural change (implementation, tools, M&E)
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Experience in
nutrition-sensitive programming (e.g., agriculture, gender, WASH) and
understanding of the cross-sectoral implications of the 1000 Days Initiative,
Scaling Up Nutrition movement
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Experience in the most common
quantitative and qualitative survey/research methods and related software (e.g.,
SMART, KPC).
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Experience in budgeting and
financial monitoring processes and project management tools
•
Strong staff management,
capacity building and supervision skills
•
Excellent representational
skills and able to undertake advocacy at a high level
•
Computer proficiency with MS
Office standard packages, SPSS or equivalent statistical software.
•
Capacity to work on a
multidisciplinary team, and see its importance for achieving health and
nutrition impact and to tackle severe poverty
•
Experience in strategic
development of country level health programming, including mainstreaming of
cross cutting themes such as HIV and AIDS, gender, and equality
DESIRABLE
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Experience in working with
partner organizations, health ministries, private sector Agri-Business/nutrition
companies, networking and donor relations
•
Experience of working in
Mozambique
•
Familiarity with Mozambique’s
Nutrition, Health and Food Security Policies Experience working with mother and
child health related projects
•
Experience in operations
research
•
Experience in community
mobilization
•
Experience with value chains
for nutrition
•
Experience developing
monitoring and evaluation frameworks for health and nutrition programmes
•
Training of trainers &
facilitation skills
Special Skills,
Aptitude or Personality Requirements:
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Strong team player with a can do attitude
·
Ability to work on their own initiative and to
motivate diverse stakeholders behind a single strategy
·
Commitment to the Scale Up Nutrition
Principles
All applications should be submitted
through our website at https://jobs.concern.net
. CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length.
Due to the urgency of this position, applications
will be short listed on a regular basis and we may offer the post before the
closing date.
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