The senior Advisor- health and nutrition will act as the lead technical person for the CASCADE program planning, implementation and quality of all Health and Nutrition activities, with close supervision and direction from the program manager and the Project coordinator. S/he will be responsible to provide technical support on health and nutrition components of CASCADE program around assessment, planning, implementation and monitoring as per the approved work plan. S/he will also provide high-level managerial oversight of CASCADE program, including oversight of workplans, program quality indicators and ensure project reports of acceptable quality are submitted in a timely manner; and to assist the Program Manager in ensuring that all donor and government contract conditions are met. S/he will work closely with the CASCADE field team and partners to improve health/nutrition advocacy and implementations as per the project plan. The position holder will also be responsible for capacity-building of project and government partners designing relevant tools and approaches for the project. S/he is also responsible to document and share good practices within the organization, stakeholders, and its partners.

II. Job Responsibilities

Responsibility No. 1: Technical support on planning and program Implementation (40% of time)

• Lead the design of the CASCAD health and nutrition related approach, guideline, manuals, and strategies in line with the national food and nutrition policies and strategies.

• Lead the CASCAD program health and nutrition component annual detail implementation plan (DIP) and its implementation.

• Provide technically advice and leadership to the field team for the implementation of health and nutrition activities (multi-sectoral coordination, AMYCN, CMAMA…).

• Technical leadership and support to the field team for effective implementation of the project activities as per the set plan of action and quality expected.

• Closely work with the LDM team to ensure measurable impact of health and nutrition-related activities and a robust M&E system is in place.

• Ensure the quality of health and nutrition-related activities designed and its implementation.
• Technically lead the health and nutrition-related assessments carried out in project operational areas.

• In close coordination with field team, technically support the zonal, regional and kebele level partners to implement nutrition related policies and guidelines.

• Coordinate with the program manger to ensure the private sectors provision of inputs for the target community for the health diet production.

• Design approaches for a promotion of healthy diet consumption to WRA and Children at zonal, woreda and kebele level.

• Supervises project activities and budgets specific to the health and nutrition intervention with close guidance from the program manager.

Job Responsibility No. 2: Training, capacity building and nutrition education (25% of time)

• Provides technical support on health and nutrition for the regional, zonal, and woreda level health systems structures to effectively function on health and nutrition interventions.

• Provide technical support for the regional, zonal, woreda and kebele level health structures to implement food and nutrition related policies and guidelines.

• Facilitate trainings and workshops, meetings conducted at Regional and zonal levels related to the health and nutrition activities.

• Develop training materials on health and nutrition interventions.

• Provide technical leadership for training need assessments to identify knowledge gaps/needs in government structure.

• Capacitate the private sector providers to avail input for health diet production and consumption.

• Assist project staffs to develop nutrition education to improve dietary practices, transform traditional attitudes to bring about behavioral change and contribute to improved nutrition and household income.

Responsibility No. 3: Monitoring, evaluation, assessment, and reporting (15 % of time)

• Technical support establishing CASCADE health and nutrition baseline; Closely collaborate with LDM manager, PQL and partners to develop a monitoring system to collect periodic data for tracking progressive changes both in nutrition policy implementation, behavior, and practice.

• Prepare high quality progress reports of performance of CASCADE health and nutrition activities.

• Participate in program monitoring and evaluation events conducted or initiated by CASCADE or its partners.

• Prepare a monthly program and program support plan that helps to visit field activities and provide formal and informal feedback to the program staff in terms of recommendations for improved performance.

• Assist in the development of indicators of health and nutrition to increase the project’s ability to tack changes on health diet consumption and resilience.

• Ensure that proposals, implementation, evaluations, and monitoring reports make explicit reference to approaches used to address unequal gender relations and challenge culturally embedded practices/attitudes and social norms that inhibit participation of women.

• Leads health and nutritional assessments (if any) ensuring assessment findings are properly documented.

• Support joint supportive supervision, and facilitative supervision with woreda and kebele staff on the activities of community health and nutrition agents.

• Monitor progress and provide ongoing feedback to the field team and higher program managers.

• Technically support the government service provider to apply accountability mechanism for the community serving.

Responsibility No. 4: Learning, Policy implementation and Networking (15% of time)

• Coordinate with the CASCADE program team to effectively support the government implementation of food and nutrition policies, strategies, and guidelines.

• Technical leadership to create synergy among relevant stakeholders in health and nutrition sectors to ensure the targeted community health diet consumption and resilience.

• Keep up to date with developments in the program, including best practice examples ensure ongoing personal development and learning.

• Work with program advisers to identify and document CASCADE best practices and lessons.

• Network with program units of CARE Ethiopia that address other determinants of malnutrition (SRH, WASH, GROW and others), and create partnerships to enhance integration and learning for health and nutritional impact.

• Organizes and participates cross-visits, produce report on good practice and case stories.

• Analyze past experiences to systematize and incorporate lessons learned into the DIP/annual work planning process.

• Provide technical support for the field team to works closely with communities, community-level institutions, government partners and privet sectors to promote quality health and nutrition interventions with targeted households.

• Contribute for evidence generation to impact of health and nutrition interventions.

Responsibility No. 5: Perform any other duties as assigned by supervisors (5% of time)

• Perform other duties, as assigned.

• The duties and responsibilities described above are subject to change, depending on CARE Ethiopian funding or programming.

III.      PROBLEM SOLVING (Thinking Environment)

Since the incumbent deals with the management and coordination of the various day-to-day activities, development, implementation and maintenance of policies, procedures, objectives, short-and long-range planning of the DFAP project, S/he shall deal with all three levels of problem solving.

A) EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

• BSc degree in nutrition, public health, food science, or related.

Desired:

• Master’s degree on the above discipline
• Research background.

B) EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• 6-8 years of experience working on nutrition, health, food security and livelihoods.

Desired:

• Experience in development-oriented NGO with health nutrition, or food security.

C) TECHNICAL SKILLS

Required:

• Proficiency in verbal and written English and Amharic.
• Concept paper development, report writing, operational planning, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Proficiency in standard office software packages.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated technical ability, sound judgment, ability to interact and work effectively with others.
• Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality, sensitivity to HIV/AIDS, transparent and participation.
• In-depth understanding and appreciation of the role of women in agriculture, nutrition, and household income generation.

Desired:

• Skills in organizing and delivering training. Expertise in one or more of the following program areas: health, nutrition, agriculture, food security and gender.

D) COMPETENCIES

• Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, adaptability, stress tolerance, innovation, building partnership, communicating with impact, coaching, facilitating change, developing teams, information monitoring, planning and organizing, leading through vision and value.

V. CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS

Internal:

• The job holder is expected to collaborate with SRHN technical team and CASCADE project management at field and head office.

External:

• Other program partners in Ethiopia mainly with Gain.

VI. WORKING CONDITIONS AND LEVEL OF TRAVEL REQUIRED

• The post is Addis Ababa/Head office with frequent travel to project sites.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Passionate and dedicated candidates who meet the requirement are strongly encouraged to apply, especially women!

CARE Ethiopia reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer.

By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms that s/he has no objection to CARE Ethiopia requesting the information specified above. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks.