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• Pro-poor market development;
• Improved health for children under five
  years of age;
• Improved security and governance

• Support continued quality improvement in
  all ongoing programming;
• Review key SO2 deliverables and provides feedback
  to the Technical Lead of SO2;
• Ensure SO2 activities are designed and
  implemented according to best practices;
• Design and implements periodic monitoring
  and research activities to inform program quality reviews and design;
• Work with SO1 and SO3 teams to ensure that
  GHG achieves complementarity across all three SOs to the greatest degree
  possible;
• Offer support to ongoing M&E
  activities to ensure that program staff have adequate information for
  accurate, timely decision-making;
• Conduct periodic assessments of key
  behavioral MCHN indicators in target communities, using this information
  to inform programming;
• Offer support integration of MCHN
  programming into GHG’s economic development activities (especially in
  areas concerning the utilization of aspect of food security) and
  conflict/governance programming;
• Analyze the impact of supplementary
  feeding on child nutrition outcomes (including oversight of
  post-distribution monitoring), evaluating the influence of other aspects
  of child health, such as enteropathy and low birth weight, on SFP
  effectiveness;
• Potentially support the design and
  implementation of a cash vs food trial examining the effect of the two
  modalities on child nutrition.

• Work closely with GHG health staff and
  headquarters support staff from all consortium members to develop new MCHN
  programming;
• Draw on international best practices and
  professional experience to provide technical advice that continually
  improves the quality of all of GHG’s MCHN programming, specifically:
• Work closely with the MCHN team on
  community-based nutrition programming, including village health teams and
  peer groups, to develop effective, innovative activities that are
  appropriate in the Karamojong village context;
• Support the Health Facility Support Team
  to target activities addressing key gaps and challenges in health clinic
  (and district system) performance;
• Conduct himself/herself both
  professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to Mercy
  Corps and to not jeopardize its mission;
• Perform any other duties as assigned.

• Guarantee compliance with security
  procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.
• Proactively ensure that team members
  operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

• The applicant must hold an advanced degree
  or equivalent in public health, with advanced training and/or experience
  in nutrition, maternal and child health and Behavior Change Communication;
• A minimum of  three years’ experience, preferably with
  experience in developing countries and living in a difficult environment;
• Demonstrated understanding of health
  systems strengthening, preferably with a good understanding of the
  facilitative approach to development;
• Strong research qualifications, with the
  demonstrated capability to design and carry out rigorous research related
  to child health and nutrition, for internal use and for dissemination to
  government, donor and other implementer audiences;
• Superb English verbal and written
  communication and presentation skills required;
• Good knowledge and understanding of data
  analysis and statistics preferred;
• Strong familiarity with program evaluation
  techniques ranging from randomized control trials to quasi-experimental participatory
  assessment methods;
• Ability to communicate with donors,
  private sector and civil society partners and host government
  representatives;
• Demonstrated flexibility, creativity and
  enthusiasm as well as a willingness to learn and to be continually adaptive
  within a dynamic and often self-directed working environment is mandatory;
• Be a self-starter, with strong capacity
  for critical thinking and problem solving;
• Ability to focus on day-to-day tasks at
  hand while also working towards longer-term objectives with an
  understanding that these will change continuously;
• Demonstrated capacity to generate and to
  translate innovative ideas into practical development approaches as well
  as marketable investment proposals and concepts;
• Willingness to travel frequently and
  extensively in remote areas with basic services;
• Possess a high  sense of humor on par with one’s level of
  curiosity.
• As part of our commitment to
  organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning
  organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the
  communities they serve – we expect all team members to commit 5% of their
  time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as
  themselves.
• All Mercy Corps team members are expected
  to support all efforts towards accountability, specifically to our
  beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief
  and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as
  equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

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