Country: Senegal
Closing date: 10 May 2016
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Contract length: 11 months
The role
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that nutrition programmes in humanitarian contexts are delivering quality interventions by being supported with quality technical inputs and to drive the Public Health on the Front Line strategy.
The Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor will directly line manage Humanitarian Surge Personnel (HSTs) and ensure deployments of key staff are supported in order to ensure the delivery of high quality, timely and accountable humanitarian nutrition programmes.
Qualifications and experience
Essential
- Nutrition professional with post graduate qualification in a relevant subject, or comparable field experience
- Fluency in written and spoken English and French
- Significant and progressive experience in the field in the implementation and management of humanitarian nutrition programmes
- Ability to travel at short notice, occasionally to remote and insecure locations for up to 50% of work time
- Field experience in several and diverse acute emergencies as well as protracted crisis settings
- Experience in reviewing proposals for major donors
- Demonstrated experience in supporting the development of emergency response strategies and technical guidance documents
- Experience of capacity building and mentoring
- Strong communications skills (both written and verbal) at a level appropriate for high level external representation (lobbying, presentations) and ability to tailor communications to different audiences
Desirable
- Highly developed writing skills (e.g. at level for producing an assessment report or proposal during a short time period)
- Experience of team leadership and management
- Experience of working with nutrition cluster coordination mechanisms in country and practical understanding of the cluster approach at country, regional and global level
- Additional training in public health, behaviour change communication
- Experience in conducting surveys (SMART, Coverage, KAP)
- Knowledge of programmes such as EpiInfo, SPSS and Open Data KIt
- Research experience
- Experience of contingency planning/emergency preparedness planning
- Direct experience working in West and Central Africa whether at regional level or in more than one country
- Additional languages helpful for working in West and Central African countries
- Experience of humanitarian programming in health, child protection, HIV, WASH or other relevant sectors.
We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
To see a full a job description, please visit our website at www.savethechildren.net/jobs
Please apply in English or French using your CV and covering letter as a single document, including your salary expectations for this role.
How to apply:
Application Email: Please apply with a covering letter and up-to-date CV to: 'Fsy.08377.3830@savethechildrenint.aplitrak.com'