EMERGENCY HEALTH AND NUTRITION EXPERT – MOZAMBIQUE

About : Action contre la Faim

Created in 1979, Action contre la Faim is a non-governmental organization that fights against hunger. Its charter of humanitarian principals- independence, neutrality, non-discrimination, free and direct access to victims, professionalism, transparency – has been part of its identity for 45 years. Its mission is to save lives by eliminating hunger through the prevention, detection and treatment of under-nutrition, particularly during and after emergency situations linked to conflicts or natural disasters. Action contre la Faim focuses its actions on 7 main areas of expertise: Nutrition and Health – Mental Health, Psychosocial Support – Food Security and Livelihoods – Water, Sanitation and Hygiene – Advocacy – Climate – Research. In 2023, Action contre la Faim provided aid to 21 million people in nearly 60 countries worldwide. www.actioncontrelafaim.org

Mission :

Under the supervision of the Deputy Country Director for Programmes, your responsibility will be to provide technical guidance and support to ACF team in health and nutrition emergency within North Mozambique (Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula provinces), in order to improve quality of interventions.
More specifically, your missions will be to :
Provide technical support in emergency health and nutrition to improve project and program quality
Develop tools, guidelines, and SOPs in emergency health and nutrition
Strengthen team and partner capacities in emergency health and nutrition
Increase ACF health and nutrition programming quality and technical expertise in the delimited provinces
In collaboration with the manager, represent ACF and its positioning in health and nutrition internally and with governmental, local and international agencies
Deliver mission report, including process, challenges and recommendations on specific mission objectives, and summary of main findingsTraining reports for project teams, stakeholders and partners,
Reports on the various workshops held during the process
Implementation plan/ support for the implementation of the roadmap
Activity monitoring and evaluation plans
Lessons learned and recommendations

Start date : 2025-03-17

Profile :

You have a medical or paramedical background and a Master diploma in health and nutrition (MPH, equivalent). You have at least 3-4 years’ experience with international NGOs, in equivalent technical position and experiences implementing, monitoring, evaluating and learning emergency health and nutrition programs, including mobile teams.

Autonomous, rigorous, and initiative-taker, you are able to identify, analyse a health and nutrition technical alert, and implement action/communication to respond to this alert. You are also creative and proactive which enables you to contextualize knowledge in emergency to propose the most relevant and up-to-date orientations.
Influential and persuasive, you are a good communicator, able to lead training session, manage team and represent ACF.
You master English (oral and written), and also Portuguese or Spanish.

Fixed term contract under French or Mozambican legislation: 3 months
Field trips : Cabo Delgado
International applicants
Monthly gross salary from 2130 to 2475euros upon experience, including 13th month
Reimbursement of the pension insurance for non-French citizens: 16% of the gross monthly salary
Annual salary increase: 6% increase after and each 12 months of continuous contract
Monthly per diem and living allowance: 622euros net, field paid
Monthly country allowance: 150euros
Child allowance: 1500euros per year per child present in the country of origin (maximum 6000euros/year)
Transportation and accommodation: Coverage of transportation costs and guest house
Medical coverage: ACF covers 100% of the health and repatriation insurance agreement fees, for your medical expenses (as well as your dependents if you have a family post), and up to 1 month after the end of your contract.
Salary sustainment measures (sickness, paternity, maternity)
Leaves and RnR: 25 days of paid leaves per year, 20 RnR per year, airfare reimbursement with a ceiling to get to the chosen break destination, and 215 euros for each RnR period
Accompaniment and trainings

National applicants
Gross Monthly Income: 172,652.00MZN
4,000.00 Mzn per month transport (paid at the end of month)
13th Month: paid in December (prorata depending on the starting date)
Health insurance: including partner and children (providing certificates)
Paid leaves: 2 days per month
Work-related accidents insurance: included