JOB PROFILE. Grade: 3 Child Protection Level: Line Management Responsibility: 3 Yes

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1 JOB PROFILE Job Title: Reports to: Grade: 3 Child Protection Level: Line Management Responsibility: East and Southern Africa Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Adviser Senior Humanitarian Nutrition Adviser (SCUK) and dotted line to Regional Operations director 3 Yes Introduction Save the Children is the world s leading independent organisation for children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to its survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. This post-holder will be a member of the Regional Humanitarian team, the Save the Children Emergency Nutrition Working Group (ENWG) and the SCUK humanitarian nutrition team and will play a crucial role in coordinating and working closely with other SCI Member technical staff in Kenya and SCI Regional Office staff in East and Southern Africa. In line with the Save the Children Public Health on the Frontline Strategy and our ambitious C16-80 strategy, we are significantly scaling up our frontline health, nutrition, HIV and WASH capacity so that many more children s lives can be saved in new emergencies and in chronic emergency contexts. The Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor will work collaboratively with regional and head office health advisors from SCUK, and other Save the Children members, ensuring that our emergency response work, preparedness and capacity building links closely with our longer term development and chronic humanitarian health programming to ensure a full spectrum approach to our nutrition programming that will impact on the quality of humanitarian programme delivery. They will also ensure that communication and support to country programmes and external representation is closely coordinated. Job Purpose The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that nutrition programmes in humanitarian contexts are delivering quality interventions by being supported with quality technical inputs and to drive the Public Health on the Front Line strategy. JD East and Southern Africa Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor April

2 The Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor will directly line manage Humanitarian Surge Personnel (HSTs) and ensure deployments of key staff are supported in order to ensure the delivery of high quality, timely and accountable humanitarian nutrition programmes. Key accountabilities Programme Support (65%): 1. In the event of emergencies deploy to the field at short notice (as part of SCI surge capacity) to set up new humanitarian nutrition programmes, including leading technical assessments, developing nutrition programme plan, strategies and master budgets, and lead on coordination and representation; 2. Ensuring responses are based on Save the Children s theory of change, strategies and principles of child rights programming, national policies and international best practice; 3. Provide support to country level Nutrition Specialist for humanitarian response including advisory visits as needed with a focus on East and Southern Africa Region and regional responses (South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Rwanda, Tanzania); 4. Support to country programmes in the region, the regional office and Save the Children members to secure funding for humanitarian nutrition programmes, coordinating with donor technical experts and s u p p o r t t o developing high quality proposals; 5. Support to country programmes to ensure high quality donor reports for humanitarian nutrition grants; 6. Ensure a broad overview of all nutrition programming in the East and Southern Africa Region; 7. In coordination with the PPQ (development) nutrition advisor carry out monitoring and evaluation support visits as required and working with country office teams to develop programme improvement plans and follow changes in outcomes; JD East and Southern Africa Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor April

3 8. Provide quality tools and guidelines to country programmes to ensure understanding of high quality programming, operations and advocacy in humanitarian nutrition programmes; 9. Ensure that humanitarian nutrition interventions are considered in first phase responses by the humanitarian director and other relevant staff, with a specific focus on raising the profile in Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E); 10. Working closely with the Humanitarian Directors, and Country Humanitarian Focal Points, other Regional Advisors and in-country technical leads to provide coordinated technical support to emergency preparedness planning, ensuring that countries are prepared for emergency nutrition scale-up in response to epidemics, conflict or natural disasters; 11. Work closely with Save the Children Emergency Health Unit (EHU) in the East and Southern Africa Region. Technical Capacity Building (20%): 1. Contribute to the design and rollout of SC humanitarian nutrition capacity building initiatives, such as the Save the Children and Liverpool School and Tropical Medicine (LSTM) Health and Nutrition in Emergencies diploma; for SC and partners staff, including training, and other modalities of learning, both at head office, regional office and in the field; 2. Line-manage deployable Nutrition Advisors (HSTs). Ensure effective mentoring and support for their professional development; 3. Support country programmes and head office in the recruitment of humanitarian nutrition staff and ongoing mentoring to support staff development in humanitarian nutrition settings; 4. Identify opportunities for partnership with external tertiary level nutrition institutes in the region, and UN agencies, to increase humanitarian nutrition capacity in the region; 5. As part of the Regional Humanitarian Technical Working Group, build communities of practice to ensure coordination of technical advice and support and to encourage shared learning between countries. Advocacy & Representation (15%): 6. Represent SC in various technical and nutrition advocacy initiatives and partnerships, both from head office and via participation in external workshops, conferences and other events as guided by the Senior Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor and the global Emergency Nutrition Working Group; JD East and Southern Africa Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor April

4 7. Lead on specific areas of advocacy and representation directly related to humanitarian nutrition programming using documented evidence generated from our programmes; 8. Liaise with the relevant external regional stakeholders including donors, learning institutes, UN and NGO representatives identifying opportunities, synergies and partnerships for SC s emergency nutrition work; 9. Represent Save the Children at regional/sub-regional emergency nutrition forums, including with OCHA, WHO, UNICEF, donors and other NGOs; 10. Support fundraising efforts for humanitarian nutrition capacity building programs in the region. General 11. Comply with the requirements of SCUK s child protection policies and other staff policies; 12. To perform such other tasks and responsibilities as may be required in order to ensure the smooth running of the team, the senior management team, cross departmental teams, the department and SCUK; 13. Participate as a full member of the Humanitarian Public Health Technical Unit (HPHTU) in London, joining team meetings, coordinating work with other advisers and using shared knowledge; 14. Be available for deployments at short notice to large scale emergencies, globally; 15. Work to ensure that that 50% of own post costs are recovered through grant funding. Person specification Essential Significant and progressive experience in the field as well as regional or head office level in the implementation and management of humanitarian nutrition programmes Field experience in several and diverse acute emergencies as well as protracted crisis settings; Nutrition professional with post graduate qualification in a relevant subject Proven experience in developing proposals for major donors Experience of contingency planning/emergency preparedness planning. Experience of working with nutrition cluster coordination mechanisms in country and practical understanding of the cluster approach at country, regional and global level JD East and Southern Africa Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor April

5 Past roles include supporting the development of emergency response strategies and technical guidance documents. Experience of capacity building and mentoring Ability to travel at short notice, occasionally to remote and insecure locations for up to 50% of work time Experience of team leadership and management Highly developed writing skills (e.g. at level for producing an assessment report or proposal during a short time period) Strong communications skills (both written and verbal) at a level appropriate for high level external representation (lobbying, presentations) and ability to tailor communications to different audiences Fluency (written and oral) in English Desirable Additional training in public health, behaviour change communication Training in coverage assessments Knowledge of programmes such as EpiInfo, SPSS and Open Data KIt Research experience Direct experience working in East Africa whether at regional level or in more than one country Fluency in an additional UN official language, preferably French Additional languages helpful for working with East and Southern African countries, Experience of humanitarian programming in health, child protection, HIV, WASH or other relevant sectors Child Protection The responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children or young people, including unsupervised access to vulnerable children and young people. The post is at child protection level 3. JD East and Southern Africa Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor April