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• Offer technical oversight, strategic direction
  and ensure appropriate support for the implementation of program
  activities in clinical and preventive nutrition
• Offer guidance in the integration of nutrition
  with maternal, newborn and child health services, FP/RH, HIV and TB, and
  Malaria
• Refine evidence-based clinical training
  materials, job aids, and curricula, supervisory systems and other training
  materials needed for implementation of clinical and preventive nutrition
  to meet the needs of USAID and the Government of Uganda
• Give mentoring and capacity building at the
  individual and organizational level in clinical and preventive nutrition
  including but not limited to:
• Give leadership and nutritional expertise to
  support activities related to essential nutrition actions, such as
  exclusive breastfeeding, continued breastfeeding to two years, timely and
  appropriate complementary feeding, Vitamin A supplementation, continued
  feeding during illnesses, and early detection and management of malnutrition
  at the community level
• Provide technical expertise in developing and
  strengthening clinical and preventive nutrition interventions for women
  and children at community and referral level
• Work in coordination with donor, government and
  non-government agencies to coordinate clinical and preventive nutrition
  programs with food security programs at facility and community levels
• Lead “train the trainer” sessions, site
  strengthening, in-service and/or pre-service education, follow-up and
  supportive supervision to project-supported health facilities, as required
  by program activities
• Work with colleagues to develop a cadre of
  nutrition champions who will facilitate links to other community-level
  health programs/services
• Coordinate assessments, site strengthening,
  follow-up and supervision, advocacy, demand creation, policy support,
  capacity-building and M&E across program sites as required by program
  activities
• Take lead the formulation of approaches for
  scale up of clinical and preventive nutrition , including accessing
  hard-to-reach populations and integration of services
• Actively participate in all Technical Advisory
  Group Meetings, and represent Jhpiego in professional forums by
  participating and presenting in pertinent meetings and conferences, as
  well as technical working groups
• Analyze potential clinical and preventive
  nutrition strategies within the context of the program and explain these,
  as necessary, to policymakers, funding agencies, and/or program staff
• Work with health care providers, local authorities,
  community members and program team members to identify clinical,
  community-based service delivery issues that impede access to care
• Identify appropriate facility- and
  community-based strategies to address nutrition service delivery gaps
• Identify clinical training needs and assist in
  the design and implementation of measures to address those needs
• Formulate and test sustainable solutions to
  service delivery gaps, utilizing cross-cutting approaches such as
  performance and quality improvement and in-service training/pre-service
  education
• Advocate with national, regional and
  community-level health institutions to raise awareness about their role in
  improving health outcomes in clinical and preventive nutrition
• Guide Ministry of Health, professional associations,
  other national stakeholders in the revision/development of evidenced-based
  standards for competency in clinical and preventive nutrition
• Mobilize international level clinical/technical
  expertise to resolve clinical issues that shape or effect local public
  policy or program design
• Collaborate with all local stakeholders and
  implementing partners, especially the Ministry of Health and other
  implementing partners, to ensure that all activities conform to the
  requirements and regulations
• Carry out regular reporting to the Chief of
  Party, and program and technical staff, of successes, challenges and
  lessons learned in implementation related to areas of technical expertise
• Document and maintain an inventory of
  successful tools and approaches for clinical and preventive nutrition
• Author and co-author abstracts and
  presentations for journals and conference
• Supervise technical staff
• Manage technical contributions of subgrantees,
  including providing scopes of work
• Maintain excellent relationships with USAID and
  in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses to USAID/DC and
  Mission requests
• Work closely with the Chief of Party and/or
  Country Director on setting program priorities and directions, and
  responding to requests for support from local counterparts.
• Work with M&E staff to design, implement a
  plan to track data/results related to clinical and preventive nutrition
• Provide technical leadership to the development
  the project strategic plan, work plan, and program monitoring, in close
  collaboration with the Ministry of Health, USAID and other stakeholders
• Ensure timely implementation of all program
  inputs related to clinical and preventive nutrition, including planning
  and implementing assessments, site strengthening, follow-up and
  supervision, advocacy, demand creation, policy support, capacity-building
  and M&E across program sites, in close coordination and collaboration
  with USAID, relevant ministries of health
• Assist in the preparation of donor reports and
  project reports
• Oversee data collection, analysis and
  development of conclusions and recommendations to further strengthen
  program implementation
• Ensure availability of resources/facilitate the
  procurement of equipment and supplies required for project implementation
• Coordinate and monitor the efficiency and
  effectiveness of the work of short-term consultants as required

• The Technical Advisor for Nutrition should
  possess a medical degree (doctor or nursing) or Master’s in Public Health

• Ugandan nationals are strongly encouraged to
  apply

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