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• Manage,
  supervise, provide ongoing technical support and leadership to nutrition
  staff located across the Karamoja region
• Line
  management and mentoring  of
  Nutrition Counterpart, Programme Support Officer  and Social and Behaviour Change Specialist.
• Ensure
  that line reports have regularly set and reviewed personal performance objectives that contribute to the delivery of RWANU.
• Strategising
  and sequencing nutrition components of Concern implemented nutrition
  components of the RWANU project.  This includes planning and developing
  technical components for timely delivery in line with the RWANU Detailed
  Implementation Plan.
• Supervising
  technical components of the project including all nutrition related
  training, food basket monitoring process, community level nutrition
  training and surveillance and technical support to Integrated Management
  of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) services. This will include mentoring and
  training of project staff (8 Health Educators and approximately 26 Health
  Promotors) and health facility staff.
• Ensure
  that RWANU incorporates best practice in caregroup and nutrition
  programming and contribute to learning through contributing to analysis
  and research.
• Deputise
  for Health and Nutrition Director- MYAP in their absence from project
  area.

• Responsible
  for the delivery of Nutrition and Behaviour Change related project
  components in line with RWANU technical narrative and quarterly and annual
  workplans &  targets
• Develop
  Curriculum and Behaviour Change messages for project components. This
  includes core modules for mother care groups and nutrition related
  messaging to key project stakeholders.
• Liaising
  with Nutrition Advisor (US based) and technical staff of partner agencies
  in developing curriculum, materilas and IEC products .
• Coordinating
  photography, graphic and printing inputs for materials production.
• Leads
  on the operational research, in conjuntion with the Health and Nutrition
  Director, including developing ToRs, supervising the consultants and
  ensuring the report findings are disseminated and adopted in the programme

• Participate
  in recruitment, induction and capacity building of technical staff
• Lead
  on developing all Nutrition and Caregroup related training and support
  national technical staff in delivering training.
• Keeping
  the team and project partners  up to
  date with new innovations in the delivery of nutrition programmes

• Advocate
  and liase with local government,District Health Teams  and nutrition stakeholders for the
  smooth implementation of nutrition related project components.
• Participate
  in regional nutrition advocacy initiatives and represent Concern at
  Nutrition related meetings/events in Karamoja region.
• Negotiating
  with stakeholders’ adjustments to programme plans or new interventions as
  nescessary.

• Oversight
  of Project Census Database and ensure Mother Care Groups are updated
  continuously.
• Manage
  the compilation and analysis of nutritional or other related data analyis
• Lead
  on all nutrition related reporting.
• As
  required attends partner and other stakeholders meetings and undertakes
  joint project supervision with relevant stakeholders

• The candidate should
  hold a Masters’ degree
  in Nutrition.
• At
  least five years experience in nutrition field with minimum 2 years
  working on applied nutrition issues including household-level consumption,
  nutrition related behaviour change & care group models;
• Good
  understanding of the first 1000 days approach for the prevention of
  malnutrition
• Two
  years experience in programme/team management and building capacity of
  diverse teams.
• Good
  participatory planning skills and excellent communication and relationship
  building skills.
• Strong
  IT and understanding database software skills;
• Ability
  to analyse data and write project reports to a high standard.
• Experience
  in clinical supportive supervision for CMAM/IMAM
• Experience
  in implementing components of behaviour change into a programme
• Experience
  in implementing large projects in challenging environments.
• Medical
  Nursing/ Public Health Background is desirable
• Prior
  Experience with USAID projects.

• All
  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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