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• Assess
  nutritional, food security and livelihoods aspects of in the beneficiary
  region and provide recommendations on appropriate response;
• Design
  and conduct nutrition and food security assessments and communicate the
  nutrition situation clearly and effectively to implementing partners and
  other stakeholders;
• Assist
  in aligning nutrition activities with national nutrition strategies and
  programmes and promote coherence of nutrition approaches, in close
  coordination and collaboration with Government institutions and
  implementing partners;
• Analyze
  and advise in program implementation modalities (targeting criteria,
  mobilization modalities, local partnerships, monitoring systems, staff
  schedules, etc.);
• Work
  with implementing partners, districts and local NGOs, at the district and
  community to enhance integration of nutrition interventions;
• Provide
  technical support and guidance to implementing partners, technical working
  groups on nutrition and community mobilization specialists in the
  implementation of nutrition and food security services at community level;
• Provide
  technical advice to the PMU on nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive
  programme and policy issues including assessment and data analysis, the
  choice of objectives, activities, transfer modalities and commodity choice
  for nutrition specific and food security interventions;
• Support
  the strengthening of local nutrition initiatives, including the
  development of local policies related to nutrition as well as nutrition
  strategies, action plans, protocols and guidelines in line with the
  current evidence;
• Contribute
  to program monitoring, evaluating, and periodic reporting;
• Provide
  support for operational partnerships, including inter‐agency collaboration, to ensure a strong multi‐sectorial response to nutrition in both
  emergency and non‐emergency
  settings;
• Support
  interventions and strategies that aim to improve nutrition amongst
  children, adolescents and adults living with HIV in the supported
  facilities;
• Provide
  coordination and technical support in finalization, dissemination and
  launch of the call for proposals relating to nutrition interventions and
  their implementation/operational guidance at the district and community
  levels;
• Perform
  any other duties as may be assigned by the Regional Coordinator.

• The
  ideal candidate must hold a Postgraduate degree in Agricultural Economics,
  Nutrition or a related field;
• Bachelors’
  degree in Nutrition or a related field;
• A
  minimum of five years of relevant professional experience in implementing
  health and community based nutrition interventions;
• Previous
  experience in a food and nutrition initiative among pastoralist and
  nomadic population will be an added advantage.
• A
  self-motivated, result-oriented person with impeccable integrity, and the
  ability to work under minimal supervision, with a high sense of duty and
  during long and irregular hours;
• Excellent
  analytical, participatory and communication skills, both orally and in
  writing;
• Excellent
  inter-personal and team-building skills;
• Fully
  computer literate;
• Willingness
  to travel widely within the project area;
• Knowledge
  of the local language(s) will be an added advantage.
• Age: 30 years and above

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