Mozambique: Nutrition Coordinator Mozambique

Reference:

DD/NC/MOZ

Country:

Mozambique

Job Title:

Nutrition Coordinator

Contract Grade: B

Contract Length: 1 Year (with potential renewal)

Job Status: Accompanied, (schools, including English Language Cambridge Certified Primary School facilities are available)

Exact Job Location: Chimoio, Manica Province with travel to Zambezia and Maputo provinces

Reports To: Director of Programmes

Responsible For: 1 Nutrition Manager; 1 Nutrition Supervisor and indirect responsibility for nutrition team (c. 14 field staff)

Liaises With: Setsan[1] Nutrition Advisor; Food Security & Livelihoods Technical Advisor, the Country Director, Program Support Officer, the COSACA Nutrition Technical Advisor 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/ Livelihoods program and support the linkage of Concern nutrition sensitive programming to the strategic development of nutrition in Manica and Zambezia provinces.

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 with the programme teams

• Ensure that nutrition specific and sensitive actions undertaken by Concern teams, MoA and MoH in the Concern operational districts are effective and that the impact is captured through an effective M+E system.

• Undertake frequent field visits; work directly with project as well as MoA and MoH district staff, lead oversight of the M+E and practice in the field and mentoring of the Food Security and field teams.

• With the Food Income and Markets (FIM) staff, 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.

• Train senior Mozambican nutrition staff to increasingly take the lead of day to day management of the field teams

• Provide technical assistance (advice, training, capacity building, documentation, etc.) for all Concern Mozambique staff and counterparts involved with the overall LAND programme (Linking Agriculture, Nutrition and Gender for Development).

• 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 and MoE 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 nutrition component of the El Nino Humanitarian Response

• Liaise with Concern emergency response team as well as other COSACA (Concern; Oxfam; Save the Children & Care) consortium members to ensure a harmonised and effective response;

• Provide training to programme and MoH staff regarding surveillance and referral methodologies

• Work with M&E staff, Programme Management and MoH staff to ensure appropriate collection and communication of nutrition statistics in line with MoH norms;

• Highlight any blockages in the pipeline of therapeutic nutritional products and service provision

Management

• Liaise and coordinate closely with FIM project managers, undertaking joint planning and review to ensure cross-sectoral coherence;

• 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 Nutrition Officers;

• Provide managerial support and supervision to the Nutrition Project Manager (Manica) and Nutrition Supervisor (Zambezia) through whom the Nutrition and Nutrition/Empowerment elements of the programme are delivered.

• 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 guidelines.

• 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 Programmes Director (PD), National Systems Manager, Project Managers, and technical headquarter advisors (including Nutrition, M+E, Food Income and Markets, DRR 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 will include Digital Data Collection and collaboration with the DDC team in Concern H.

• Financial Management - Hold, manage and oversee the nutrition budget and provide monthly feedback on management accounts.

• Manage technical consultants as required.

Reporting

• Ensure high quality and timely reports are developed for donors and counterparts.

• Produce meaningful and analytic monthly reports, Quarterly donor reports 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 other COSACA member agencies

• Coordinate with the Concern SUN group.

• Represent Concern with the MoH, MoA in both Manica and Zambezia provinces, and in collaboration with the Setsan Advisor - with the Secretariat for Nutrition (SETSAN – responsible for SUN),

• 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.

Other Duties

· Adhere fully to the commitments and rules of Concern’s Programme Participant Protection Policy and Code of Conduct (P4 and CofC), including the respect of confidentiality.

· Report to the Country Director, all violations or potential violations of the P4 or CofC..

· Undertake any other relevant duties as may be assigned by the CD/PD or their designate.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

· Masters in Nutrition, Public Health or equivalent qualification.

· Min. 5 years’ experience in public health and project/programme management, developing/managing health and nutrition projects in a development context

· Full working knowledge of Portuguese and fluent English. In absence of Portuguese, Spanish and Italian may be assets to be considered on a case-by-case approach.

• Experience working in behaviour based IYCF and M+E

• Experience in social and behavioural change (implementation, tools, M&E)

• 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

• 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

DESIRABLE

• Experience in working with partner organizations, health ministries, private sector Agri-Business/nutrition companies, networking and donor relations

• Experience in quantitative and qualitative survey/research methods and related software (e.g., SMART, KPC).

• 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:

· 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 by closing date of 4^th September 2013. CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length.

All candidates who are short-listed for a first round interview will be notified via email after the application deadline.

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[1] Setsan is the Government Food Security and Nutrition Secretariat.

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