Nutrition Officer (Cluster Coordination), NOB, Temporary Appointment (364 days), Kabul (CR), Afghanistan, post#128054

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, in every single place, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each baby, Well being!

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How will you make a distinction?

Underneath the supervision of the sphere Vitamin Specialist/Officer, and with help from the nationwide Vitamin Supervisor/Chief and the Vitamin Officer (Cluster Coordination), the aim of this submit is to supply management and facilitate the processes that can guarantee a well-coordinated, strategic, ample, coherent and efficient response by companions within the sub nationwide diet cluster.

Key operate, accountabilities and associated duties/duties

The submit holder has joint accountability with the UNICEF, resourcing companions and all cluster contributors on the nationwide and sub-national degree for the environment friendly administration and functioning of the sub-national diet cluster encompassing the next:

• Construct and maintain efficient shut working partnerships with diet stakeholders by lively sharing of knowledge and information
• Revitalize and keep an applicable humanitarian diet coordination mechanism
• Construct complementarity of accomplice actions, avoiding duplication and gaps
• Present help to ample useful resource mobilization and equitable allocation for the efficient functioning of the sub cluster and its response.
• Promote efficient and complete integration of related cross-cutting points, together with age, gender, and disabilities.
• Keep flexibility throughout the sub cluster to reply to adjustments within the working setting, evolving necessities, capacities and participation.
• Successfully use and switch info to, from and between cluster contributors and different stakeholders.
• Work together with different clusters (together with by inter-cluster coordination), humanitarian actors, authorities counterparts, and related authorities for operational planning, engagement and lively contribution of operational companions.
• Be accountable to the affected inhabitants by efficient and inclusive consultative and suggestions mechanisms.
• Improve and monitor efficiency of the core cluster capabilities, i.e.:
• Supporting service supply

• Present a platform to make sure that service supply is pushed by the agreed strategic priorities
• Develop and/or contextualize mechanisms to eradicate duplication of service supply

• Informing strategic decision-making for the humanitarian response
• Wants evaluation and hole evaluation (throughout different sectors and throughout the sector)
• Evaluation to establish and handle (rising) gaps, obstacles, duplication, and cross-cutting points.
• Prioritization, grounded in response evaluation

• Planning and technique growth

• Develop context-specific sectoral plans, aims and indicators that immediately help the conclusion of the diet cluster strategic priorities
• Software and adherence to current requirements and pointers
• Make clear funding necessities and prioritization and supply enter into the fundraising processes (Flash Attraction, AHF, CERF, and many others.)

• Advocacy

• Establish advocacy issues to contribute to diet cluster messaging and motion
• Enterprise advocacy actions on behalf of cluster contributors and the affected inhabitants

• Monitoring and reporting the implementation

• Take part in monitoring and analysis workouts, programme evaluations and annual evaluations with the federal government and different counterparts.
• Improve programme information evaluation for motion at subnational degree.
• Take part and preserve document of reviews on surveys and assessments for simple reference and/or to seize and institutionalize classes discovered.
• Work intently and collaboratively with colleagues and companions to debate information and issues discovered from monitoring. Present options, suggestions and/or alert applicable officers and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or decision-making.
• Monitor and report on the usage of sectoral sources allotted to companions (monetary, administrative and different property), verifying compliance with authorized allocation.

• Contingency planning/preparedness for recurrent disasters

• Contribute to threat profiling and evaluation and subsequent contingency plans with related, context-specific inputs.

• Accountability to affected populations

• Promote info sharing, sensitization and neighborhood engagement
• Guarantee efficient and inclusive consultative and suggestions mechanisms

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…

• A college diploma in one of many following fields is required:  diet, public well being, dietary epidemiology, world/worldwide well being and diet, well being/diet analysis, coverage and/or administration, well being sciences, dietary epidemiology, or one other well being/nutrition-related discipline.

• A minimal of two years {of professional} expertise in a growing nation in a number of of the next areas is required: diet, public well being, diet planning and administration, or maternal, toddler and baby well being/diet care.

• Expertise in programme/venture coordination is an asset.

• Expertise in well being/diet programme/venture growth in a UN system company or group is an asset.

• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.

For each Youngster, you reveal…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the things we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness(3)Drive to realize outcomes for influence(4)Innovates and embraces change(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity(6)Thinks and acts strategically(7)Works collaboratively with others.

Through the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our world workforce should replicate the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. 

Remarks:

This place has been assessed as an elevated threat position for Youngster Safeguarding functions as it’s:a task with direct contact with kids, works immediately with kids, is a safeguarding response position.Further vetting and evaluation for elevated threat roles in baby safeguarding (probably together with further prison background checks) applies.

UNICEF’s lively dedication in direction of variety and inclusion is vital to ship the very best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates are inspired to use.

All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background examine.

Authorities staff which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance will not be obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.