Nutrition Specialist, (P-3), TA ( 364 days) , #124749 – Amman – Jordan , MENA RO

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

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, in every single place, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each youngster, Diet

The calls for on UNICEF to reply to large-scale disaster in all areas has by no means been higher. There’s a pattern in direction of more and more complicated crises, the place battle and local weather threats exacerbate underlying vulnerabilities in well being, water, meals, and different programs. The result’s a higher variety of international locations experiencing protracted meals and vitamin insecurity and excessive ranges of malnutrition in youngsters and girls. These calls for are even higher within the MENA area – with a number of ongoing humanitarian crises, together with an L3-level response in Syria. The capability of UNICEF MENA nation places of work to assist the Diet Cluster and Diet in Emergency (NiE) programme response is proscribed. With the MENA regional workplace being the primary port of offering technical and surge assist to the NiE response of the UNICEF nation workplace, a necessity for devoted full-time workers is crucial. To ship the minimal actions and requirements outlined in UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Kids in Humanitarian Motion, structural assist for NiE at MENARO and growth of well timed vitamin assist to COs responding to a disaster is urgently required.

How will you make a distinction?

Below the supervision of the Regional Adviser, Diet, you’ll present vital assist to bettering UNICEF programs and approaches for NiE within the MENA area. It will entail supporting present important capabilities because the emergency focus in MENARO whereas bringing new capability for analyzing and testing how knowledge and programs will be improved and strengthened in any respect ranges for UNICEF and Cluster’s vitamin in emergency response. As well as, this function will present much-needed technical and operational assist – each remotely and by way of deployment – to precedence humanitarian responses to assist UNICEF Nation Workplaces within the MENA area to ship on the Core Commitments for Kids in Humanitarian Motion.

Your principal duties & accountabilities are as per the next:

1. Lead high-quality, proactive technical assist to precedence humanitarian response within the MENA regio

• In coordination with the RO and HQ Humanitarian groups and the World Diet Cluster present direct, context-appropriate technical assist (distant and in individual) to MENA international locations for vitamin in emergency actions (emergency preparedness, response, and restoration).
• Help international locations in growing emergency preparedness and response plans for disaster international locations and reviewing strategic response paperwork (Strategic Response Plans, Humanitarian Wants Overviews, Humanitarian Motion for Kids appeals) to contribute to efficient and environment friendly emergency preparedness and response actions.
• Allow systematic linkages between technical sources at HQ and RO, and country-level wants, for instance, in vitamin info programs in emergencies.
• Determine capability gaps and supply particular and contextual capacity-strengthening assist to the MENA international locations; using approaches together with however not restricted to mentoring, teaching, and coaching in all areas of vitamin in emergencies.
• Take part within the monitoring and analysis of the vitamin element of emergency responses (e.g. annual reporting on emergency preparedness and response, documentation of classes realized and good practices, and strengthening the capability of UNICEF monitoring programs to trace emergency preparedness and response) in addition to liaising with donors and contribute to data administration and communication to make sure that emergency responses are adequately resourced, and documented for future planning and technique growth.
• Present operational assist to nation places of work, together with recruitment, proposal growth, procurement, and budgets as required by the COs.
• Lead the NiE output below the MENARO Diet work plan and function MENARO Emergency Diet focus in RO and HQ conferences.

2. Help the strengthening of programs for simpler and environment friendly NiE preparedness and response – with a particular concentrate on strengthening the humanitarian-development continuum

• In coordination with the HQ and RO Humanitarian groups and session with related stakeholders, develop and take a look at normal working procedures and instruments for tactics of working for vitamin in emergencies between MENARO and CO on the onset of an L2 or L3 emergency. This SOP will embrace minimal actions for vitamin response groups to contemplate on the onset or crucial juncture of a disaster.
• Lead in figuring out alternatives to strengthen coordination and collaboration between vitamin and UNICEF’s well being, WASH and safety sectors on the MENARO degree.
• Help country-specific Emergency Administration Workforce (EMT) and Technical Conferences by making ready vitamin inputs and following up on nutrition-related actions.
• Work intently with the opposite Diet Specialists within the MENARO Diet group to strengthen linkages between the humanitarian- growth programming

3. Help international locations in strengthening their Diet Info programs in emergencies – by drawing linkages to nationwide vitamin surveys and routine knowledge programs

• Work intently with the data administration and knowledge groups on the RO and COs to observe the vitamin scenario in precedence international locations and lead in figuring out and executing precedence actions in preparedness, response, and restoration. This consists of however just isn’t restricted to supporting the info evaluation and integrating indicators
• Collaborate with nation places of work to ascertain and monitor the progress on benchmarks and efficiency indicators for the UNICEF MENARO Diet indicators for each sector and programme. Help nation workplace vitamin groups in reporting on the vitamin indicators with high quality and consistency for the vitamin sector and programmes by making certain coherence.
• Lead the event and use of the Regional Diet knowledge repository and dashboards in alignment with the Regional Diet Accelerators outcomes framework.

4. Help technical developments in NiE – in coordination with HQ and different RO groups

• According to the revised CCCs, and in coordination with the GNC Technical Alliance, assist initiatives to enhance vitamin in emergencies’ technical capability in MENA international locations, particularly within the areas together with money programming for vitamin outcomes, catastrophe threat discount, local weather change and maternal, adolescent, and toddler and younger youngster vitamin in humanitarian settings.
• Work intently with HQ and different RO NiE groups for the identification and implementation of operational analysis in vitamin in emergencies.

 

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

Training: 

• Grasp’s Diploma in one of many following fields: vitamin, public well being, dietary epidemiology, world/worldwide well being and vitamin, well being/vitamin analysis, coverage and/or administration, well being sciences, dietary epidemiology, or one other health-related science area

Work Expertise: 

• Minimal 5 (5) years of progressively accountable skilled work associated to public well being vitamin, public well being, humanitarian help and growth, well being/vitamin analysis, coverage and/or administration, or different well being associated social science area is a requirement. 
• Direct, sensible expertise within the design, implementation, and monitoring of vitamin in emergencies interventions is a requirement.
• Expertise in offering context acceptable technical assist each in individual and remotely is a requirement.
• Expertise as a cluster coordinator and talent to work in a posh atmosphere are thought-about property.
• Demonstrated capacity to work in troublesome and sophisticated environments, and efficient administration of numerous stakeholders is taken into account an asset.
• Expertise in design and implementation of SMART surveys, nationwide vitamin surveys, and utilizing statistical software program equivalent to SPSS. and expertise in managing built-in meals safety section classification (IPC)  are a thought-about a requirement.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Further desired expertise:

a) Information of UNICEF applications within the area of kid survival and growth, UNICEF Diet Strategic Plan 2020-2030, and the Core Commitments for Kids in Humanitarian Motion (CCCs)

 b) Confirmed expertise in communication, influencing, and negotiation.

 c) Expertise in utilizing superior Excel capabilities (pivot tables), SPSS, and knowledge visualization platforms is fascinating

d) Wonderful writing and communication expertise in English are required. Prior expertise in vitamin program/challenge growth and administration in any UN system company or group is an asset.

Language: 

• Fluency in English is required, working data of Arabic and/or French is an asset. 

For each Baby, you show…

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

UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to realize outcomes for affect (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 take a look at candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

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Remarks:

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