Temporary Appointment: Nutrition Specialist, P3, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (# 00128113)

UNICEF works in among 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 little one, in every single place, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each little one, power.

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each little one, in every single place, in the whole lot the group does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness implies that all kids have a possibility to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any little one has an unequal probability in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There may be rising proof that investing within the well being, diet, training and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all kids the chance to satisfy their potential but in addition will result in sustained progress and stability of nations. That is why the concentrate on fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all kids, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster, whereas additionally supporting the equitable growth of countries.

How are you going to make a distinction?

Below the general course and steerage of the Chief of Vitamin, you’ll handle the Vitamin Governance and Early Childhood Vitamin output of the Vitamin part. You may be liable for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of the sectors (governance and early childhood diet) of the diet programme. The Vitamin Specialist gives technical steerage and administration help all through the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable ends in diet governance (public financing, coordination, monitoring and analysis, data programs) and early little one diet programmes/tasks (stunting prevention, extreme losing prevention and care, together with social behavioral approaches). That is carried out in accordance with plans, allocation, outcomes based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), in addition to UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, requirements of efficiency, and accountability framework.

Key operate, accountabilities and associated duties/job

Help to programme growth and planning

• Contribute to and help the preparation, design and updating of the scenario evaluation for the diet sector(s) to make sure complete and present information on maternal and little one diet is accessible to information coverage growth and the design and administration of the sooner recognized sectors of the diet programmes/tasks.
• Preserve abreast of growth developments to boost programme administration, effectivity and supply.
• Take part in strategic programme discussions on the planning of the sectors of the diet programmes/tasks.
• Formulate, design and put together a sector of the diet programme proposal, making certain alignment with UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, Nation Programme, and coherence/integration with the UN Strategic Growth Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), regional methods, in addition to nationwide priorities, plans and competencies.
• Set up particular objectives, aims, methods, and implementation plans for the diet sector(s) based mostly on results-based planning terminology and methodology (RBM). Put together required documentations for programme assessment and approval.
• Work intently and collaboratively with colleagues and companions to debate methods and methodologies, and to find out nationwide priorities/competencies to make sure the achievement of concrete and sustainable outcomes.
• Present technical and operational help all through all phases of programming processes to make sure integration, coherence and harmonization of programmes/tasks with different UNICEF sectors and achievement of outcomes as deliberate and allotted.

Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes;

• Plan and/or collaborate with inner and exterior companions to ascertain monitoring benchmarks, efficiency indicators, and UNICEF/UN system indicators and measurements, to evaluate and strengthen efficiency accountability, coherence and supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes for the assigned sector in diet programmes.
• Take part in monitoring and analysis workout routines, programme evaluations and annual evaluations with authorities and different counterparts to evaluate progress and to find out required motion and interventions to realize outcomes.
• Put together and assess monitoring and analysis reviews to determine gaps, strengths and/or weaknesses in programme administration. Establish classes realized and use information gained for growth planning and well timed intervention to realize objectives.
• Actively monitor programmes and tasks by subject visits, surveys and/or alternate of data with companions and stakeholders to evaluate progress. Establish bottlenecks and potential issues, and take well timed selections to resolve points and/or seek advice from related officers for well timed decision.
• Monitor and confirm the optimum and applicable use of sectoral programme sources (monetary, administrative and different property) confirming compliance with organizational guidelines, rules, procedures, donor commitments, and requirements of accountability. Guarantee well timed reporting and liquidation of sources.
• Put together common and mandated programme/venture reviews for administration, donors and companions to maintain them knowledgeable of programme progress.

Technical and operational help to programme implementation

• Present technical steerage and operational help to authorities counterparts, NGO companions, UN system companions and different nation workplace (CO) companions/donors on the interpretation, utility and understanding of UNICEF insurance policies, methods, processes, finest practices, and approaches on diet and associated points to help programme growth planning, administration, implementation, and supply of outcomes.
• Take part in discussions with nationwide companions, shoppers and stakeholders to advertise diet and growth points particularly within the areas of emergency preparedness and maternal, new child and little one survival and growth.
• Contribute to or draft coverage papers, briefs and different strategic programme supplies for administration use, data and/or consideration.

• Take part in emergency preparedness initiatives for programme growth, contingency planning and/or to reply to emergencies in nation or the place designated.

Networking and partnership constructing

• Construct and maintain efficient shut working partnerships with diet sector authorities counterparts and nationwide stakeholders by lively sharing of data and information.
• Facilitate programme implementation and construct the capability of stakeholders to realize programme objectives on maternal and little one rights in addition to social justice and fairness.
• Put together communication and data supplies for CO programme advocacy to advertise consciousness, set up partnership/alliances and help fund elevating for diet programmes (maternal, new child and little one survival and growth).

• Take part and/or signify UNICEF in inter-agency discussions, making certain that UNICEF’s place, pursuits and priorities are totally thought-about and built-in within the UNSDCF growth planning and agenda setting.

Innovation, information administration and capability constructing

• Apply and introduce revolutionary approaches and good practices to construct the capability of companions and stakeholders, and to help the implementation and supply of concrete and sustainable programme outcomes.

•     Preserve abreast, analysis, benchmark, and implement finest and cutting-edge practices in diet administration and data programs. Assess, institutionalize and share finest practices and information realized.

• Contribute to creating and implementing insurance policies and procedures to make sure optimum effectivity and efficacy of sustainable programmes and tasks.

•     Manage and implement capacity-building initiatives to boost the competencies of shoppers and stakeholders to advertise sustainable outcomes on nutrition-related programmes and tasks.

As an advocate for each little one, you will have to have the next {qualifications}.

• A sophisticated 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 health-related science subject.

• A minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise in a creating nation in a number of of the next areas is required: early childhood diet (stunting prevention, extreme losing prevention and care), diet governance (public financing, coordination, monitoring and analysis, data programs), public well being, diet planning and administration, or maternal and little one well being/diet care.

• Expertise in well being/diet programme/venture growth and administration in a UN system company or group is an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Youngster, you exhibit…

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

UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (1), Works Collaboratively with others (1), Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1), Innovates and Embraces Change (1), Thinks and Acts Strategically (1), Drive to realize impactful outcomes (1), Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

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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