Save the Children Senior Nutrition Coordination Specialist Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs

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Save the Children Senior Nutrition Coordination Specialist Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.

Save the Children Ethiopia looking for “Senior Nutrition Coordination Specialist”.

Applicants with a University Degree may apply on or before 11th May, 2024.

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in around 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children strives to achieve a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. We work to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Across all of our work, we pursue several core values: accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity and integrity.

The Save the Children has published a job vacancy announcement on 02nd May, 2024 for qualified Ethiopia’s to fill in the vacant post of Senior Nutrition Coordination Specialist to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Save the Children Job Vacancy 2024

Key Areas of Accountability:

Support the implementation of the SUN MSP and ECSC-SUN activities and ensuring that the quality standards are met.
In consultation with ECSC-SUN National Lead, develop concept notes, proposals, and budgets to be submitted for potential donors; develops log frame, detailed implementation plan and M&E plan as part of the proposal package and revise proposals to accommodate comments from coalition members and donors.
Provide technical inputs to conduct mapping, capacity gap assessments, and strengthening of Food Systems Transformation, Food and Nutrition Strategy and Seqota Declaration regional coordination; monitoring effective implementation of initiatives and ensure program performance is in line with the international and national standards.
Engage in capacity building activities including training and knowledge transfer to Food and Nutrition implementing sectors and ECSC-SUN members; coordinate and lead the regional capacity building initiatives and provide support to the ECSC-SUN members agencies assigned to lead different regions.
Provide technical support for the start-up and implementation of ECSC-SUN regionalization and thematic focus initiatives through supportive supervision, mentoring, coaching, review meetings, capacity building and learning visits.
Coordinate, facilitate and participate in SUN MSP and ECSC- SUN meetings and forums/workshops.
Coordinate a series of meetings and workshops with Region Government officials and bureau staff to introduce the purpose and function of SUN MSP.
Follow the implementation of the planned activities of SUN MSP and ECSC SUN project like the completion of the development of the strategic plans which are contracted out to be done by consultants.
Provide technical support to Food Systems and Nutrition council establishment process through training and capacity building, as well as organizing workshops and meetings that will be used to define the National Food Systems and Nutrition Council’s strategic plan.
Provide technical support the implementation of Ethiopian Food System Transformation Road Map, National Food and Nutrition strategy (FNS) and Seqota Declaration expansion phase.
Provision of support to food and nutrition implementing sectors and national nutrition program related demands raised by other food and nutrition implementing sectors.
Engage in the preparation of Advocacy and resource mobilization implementation guidelines, SUN MSP detailed implementation plan and phased budget for the period of 2022 and beyond.
Write-up of SUN MSP and ECSC SUN programme report and closely work with the SUN Government Focal, ECSC-SUN National Lead and Senior M&E, Research and KM specialist for timely submission of reports to donors.
Contribute to learning and research that supports the coalition advocacy objectives.
Coordinate activities to strengthening National Nutrition leadership initiative and platform; and organize meetings of different nutrition professionals and leaders under the nutrition leadership initiative.
Be fully aware of food system transformation roadmap and nutrition related policies, strategies, Seqota declaration, and other initiatives and developments by government, SUN movement coordination platforms and other coalition members and stakeholders.
Ensure that relevant crosscutting issues are strategically mainstreamed in new ECSC-SUN projects; also ensuring relevant ECSC-SUN coalition member staff understand and are capacitated to take the issues forward.
Develop good relations with SUN MSP Stakeholders, other CSOs, donors, UN, government sectors and development partners.

Position in Organization:

Position Name: Senior Nutrition Coordination Specialist
Job Identification: 7314
Job Category: Business Support
Posting Date: 02/05/2024, 12:04
Apply Before: 11/05/2024, 12:03
Job Schedule: Full time
Locations: CO – Addis Ababa

Minimum Requirement:

Education and Experience:

First Degree in Nutrition, Public Health, or related field; Recommended a minimum of 10 years related work experience in nutrition and nutrition related programs.
Experience in working with government counterparts, CSOs and other partners at various levels – federal to district within the framework of nutrition.
Experience in provision of technical support, capacity-building, and coordination.
Experience of coalition building, forum coordination and working with civil society actors to deliver change.

Language Requirement:

Good presentation, training, and facilitation skills; fluency in spoken and written English; good computer skills (particularly Excel, Word, and databases).