Re-advertisement: Chief Nutrition, (P-4), Fixed Term, Lilongwe, Malawi #52247, REQ#566839 (Open to Non-Malawian nationals)

The aim of this re-advertisement is to increase the pool of candidates. Candidates who’ve already utilized don’t have to reapply, as their earlier functions will proceed to be thought-about as a part of the recruitment course of. 

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

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

And we by no means hand over.

For each youngster, an opportunity.

UNICEF Malawi Nation Programme (2019-2023) is aligned with the Authorities of Malawi’s Implementation Plan (MIP1) primarily based on Malwi’s Imaginative and prescient 2063 and the United Nations Growth Help Framework 2019-2023 (UNDAF). The programme helps the Authorities of Malawi to fulfill its dedication to respect, defend and fulfil youngsters’s rights consistent with worldwide conventions and requirements. The nation programme is guided by the ideas of youngsters’s rights, fairness, gender equality, inclusion and resilience and helps evidence-based, integrative and revolutionary programming. The imaginative and prescient is that ‘all ladies and boys in Malawi, particularly probably the most deprived and disadvantaged, notice their rights’. The programme focuses on early childhood (parenting, high-impact social providers, early stimulation and studying), center childhood and adolescence (studying, multi-sectoral providers, lively citizenship), communities (decentralized providers and methods, group possession, social norms), programme effectiveness (monitoring, analysis, HACT, Innovation, Social Safety and Social Coverage and Exterior Communication. The programme is predicated on ‘leaving no youngster behind’, realizing ‘rights for all youngsters in Malawi’.

Malawi’s new Vitamin programme (2024-2028) will concentrate on strategic partnerships with numerous methods equivalent to meals methods, schooling, well being, WASH and social coverage to assist a multisectoral strategy to addressing vitamin points; technical assist of meals system transformation to enhance dietary practices and providers; system strengthening at each central and decentralized degree to construct capability and enhance accountability; collaboration and coordination with key stakeholders for complementarity and cross-sectoral linkage; advocacy for coverage reforms and public financing for vitamin; risk-informed planning and high quality service supply; coverage and technique growth to information implementation; group engagement, and social behaviour change.

As Chief Vitamin, the workplace will depend on your robust administration expertise, strategic pondering and expertise in vitamin programming with a concentrate on system strengthening and meals system transformation to work with key stakeholders in Authorities, Civil Society, Academia, and Growth Companions to leverage partnerships, sources and most significantly, outcomes for kids. Malawi is a dynamic nation the place you too can contribute your expertise in responding to vitamin emergencies that are extra outstanding as a consequence of polio, cholera, the affect of local weather change equivalent to floods, meals insecurity and elevated poverty as a consequence of financial shocks. Your expertise in working hands-on at a decentralized degree can be a terrific benefit to us.

How will you make a distinction?

The Malawi Nation Workplace gives an thrilling and rewarding profession alternative so that you can be part of our dynamic Vitamin workforce, the place you’ll handle and lead all phases of vitamin programmes/initiatives, from strategic planning and formulation of annual workplans and key methods to ship outcomes for kids. You’ll use your core competencies in efficient interpersonal communication, battle decision, drive for outcomes, ethics and integrity, and person-focused and care-driven administration approaches to inspire the vitamin workforce to realize concrete and sustainable outcomes. In your function, you’ll be underneath the general steerage of the Deputy Consultant Programmes.

Due to this fact, this job presents a singular and important alternative for a professional, vibrant, motivated, and dedicated particular person to contribute to the general achievement of transformative outcomes for kids by delivering on the next key duty areas, summarized as follows:

1. Robust and accountable managerial management with a concentrate on fostering teamwork and nurturing workers morale.
2. Programme growth and planning by vital and strategic pondering.
3. Programme administration, monitoring, and supply of outcomes by establishing clear accountability frameworks adaptable to emergencies.
4. Advisory providers and technical assist to Authorities and all different Growth Companions, in addition to internally, to make sure efficient cross-sectoral collaboration to carry significant change.
5. Advocacy, networking, and partnership constructing, guaranteeing a responsive and dynamic UNICEF presence on the bottom that responds to the wants of the communities we serve.
6. Innovation, data administration, and capability constructing to raise our programmes to new heights of effectivity and sharing the invaluable classes we have now discovered.

You might be inspired to obtain the detailed job description  GJD – Chief Nutrition.pdf to view the total function and its necessities.

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

Training:

• A sophisticated college diploma in one of many following fields is required: Public Well being, Medication, Vitamin, Dietician, Paediatrics, or some other related area.

Expertise:

• A minimal of eight years of related skilled work expertise is required in growing and implementing vitamin programmes inside a world context with a concentrate on the humanitarian/growth nexus.
• Expertise working in a growing nation is taken into account a powerful asset.
• Expertise in emergencies is required.
• Expertise in system strengthening and decentralized service supply strengthening is a powerful asset.
• Expertise in managing large-scale vitamin programmes with a number of companions is required.
• Expertise in proof technology and knowledge evaluation is vital.

Technical data and expertise:

• Vitamin Science: Deep understanding of vitamin ideas, together with macronutrients, micronutrients, dietary necessities, and the affect of vitamin on well being and growth. A superb understanding of present international vitamin priorities in growth programmes and is predicted to own a various talent set and a complete understanding of vitamin’s advanced challenges, particularly in emergency settings.
• Public Well being Vitamin: Deep data of public well being approaches and evidence-based methods to handle the inhabitants’s malnutrition, stunting, and different nutrition-related points.
• Programme Design and Planning: The power to design evidence-based and context-specific vitamin programmes, which might be context-specific and culturally delicate.
• Monitoring and Analysis: Proficiency in constructing sturdy monitoring and analysis methods to measure programme effectiveness, establish gaps, and guarantee accountability.
• Budgeting and Useful resource Administration: Expertise to allocate sources effectively, optimize budgets, and guarantee cost-effective implementation of vitamin programmes.
• Coverage and Advocacy: Understanding of vitamin insurance policies and the flexibility to advocate for coverage adjustments and useful resource allocation to assist vitamin initiatives.
• Analysis and Knowledge Evaluation: Capability to make the most of knowledge and analysis findings to tell decision-making, enhance programme methods, and contribute to the vitamin proof base.
• Emergency Vitamin Response: Familiarity with emergency vitamin protocols and the flexibility to coordinate and handle vitamin interventions in emergencies.
• Cross-Sectoral Collaboration: Talent in fostering collaboration with different sectors like well being, agriculture, and schooling to handle vitamin points comprehensively.
• Capability Constructing and Coaching: Expertise in growing and delivering coaching programmes to reinforce the capability of workers and companions in nutrition-related subjects.
• Partnership Administration: Competence in constructing and sustaining relationships with authorities entities, NGOs, donors, and different stakeholders to reinforce programme affect.
• Communication and Advocacy: Efficient communication expertise to convey advanced vitamin ideas to various audiences and advocate for nutrition-related points at numerous ranges.
• Management and Group Administration: Robust management expertise to encourage and information groups, foster a optimistic work setting, and obtain programme objectives collectively.
• Innovation and Adaptability: Willingness to embrace new applied sciences and revolutionary approaches to enhance vitamin programme effectivity and adapt to altering circumstances

Language:

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

For each Youngster, you show…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every part 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 and (8) Nurtures, leads and manages individuals.

In the course of 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 youngsters and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, 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 go away, 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 goals 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 youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer extra data to conduct a background examine.

Remarks:

The place just isn’t thought-about an elevated-risk function. Nevertheless, UNICEF reserves the suitable to conduct additional vetting/evaluation inside the scope of kid safeguarding as acceptable.

UNICEF’s lively dedication in direction of variety and inclusion is vital to ship the most effective outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates and appropriate individuals dwelling with incapacity are inspired to use.

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which can be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid).

Authorities workers which might be thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF.

With out compensation, UNICEF reserves the suitable to withdraw a proposal of appointment if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained or needed inoculation necessities should not met inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.

UNICEF solely considers greater academic {qualifications} obtained from an establishment accredited/acknowledged within the World Larger Training Database (WHED), a listing up to date by the Worldwide Affiliation of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO). The listing may be accessed at http://www.whed.net/.

The emptiness announcement is open to all candidates – each inside UNICEF workers and exterior candidates.

Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.

The aim of this re-advertisement is to increase the pool of candidates. Candidates who’ve already utilized don’t have to reapply, as their earlier functions will proceed to be thought-about as a part of the recruitment course of. 

To ship outcomes for the youngsters of Malawi, UNICEF Malawi Nation Workplace works in a fast-paced however impactful setting the place creativity, innovation, collaboration, teamwork, a secure area {and professional} growth are supported and inspired. Due to this fact, we search people who’re motivated to make an actual distinction and serve the youngsters of Malawi with resourcefulness, resilience, creativity, {and professional} excellence.