Nutrition & Health Technical Advisor

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

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Country location to be determined based on response.

Please submit your Cover Letter and CV in English.

Children’s lives can change in an instant in the wake of war, disasters and humanitarian emergencies. We see how vulnerable they are and how much they need our protection.

Joining our Emergency Response Roster means you can be a part of our response, providing immediate support when disaster strikes.

Here's where you come in:

As a Nutrition & Health Technical Advisor, your primary responsibility is to ensure the effective planning, implementation, and monitoring of nutrition and health programs in emergency settings. This entails providing technical guidance and support to enhance emergency response capabilities, with a specific focus on improving health and nutrition outcomes for affected populations.

Additionally, you will collaborate with stakeholders to develop and implement evidence-based strategies, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services in alignment with humanitarian standards and guidelines. Moreover, you'll play a vital role in resource mobilization efforts by developing capability statements and assisting in program design for funding proposals.

In your role, you will establish standards, share best practices, and foster partnerships with relevant stakeholders and institutions to strengthen program effectiveness. Furthermore, you'll closely collaborate with the health and nutrition working group and cluster to enhance external representation and coordination efforts.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead the development of a sector response plan and provide strategic guidance for emergency health and nutrition response in the deployed country and emergency settings.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of nutrition and health programs in emergency settings.
• Develop and oversee the implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for nutrition and health interventions.
• Ensure compliance with humanitarian standards and guidelines in all program activities. Provide technical support to ensure the successful implementation of emergency health and nutrition interventions, including nutrition assessments. Build capacity in emergency health and nutrition assessment and survey methodologies.
• Contribute to Response’s technical programs development and roll out with focus on child well-being through peace, protection and opportunity.
• Provide technical support to Nutrition and health initiatives (both developmental and emergency nutrition) in the Response.
• Provide leadership in mainstreaming and scaling up promising nutrition /health practices with special focus on integration.
• Supports assessment, monitoring and evaluation processes to monitor input, outcome and impact across the response on emergency nutrition/health programming using selected regional nutrition /health indicators of Our Promise CWBO5&6.
• Provide on the site technical support for existing and new health and nutrition projects
• Provide technical support for successful implementation of emergency and developmental nutrition/health research projects and publications.
• Coordinates capacity building roll out plans for maternal Child health and establishing nutrition approaches and implementation of core intervention project models (ttC/CHW, PD/Hearth etc).

Resource Mobilization

• Develop capability statements and contribute to program design for funding proposals.
• Identify and pursue funding opportunities to support nutrition and health programs. Support the response team in exploring and pursuing multilateral, bilateral, and private health and nutrition funding opportunities.
• Liaise with donors and partners to secure resources for program implementation.
• Develop high-quality concept notes and proposals for emergency health and nutrition projects.

External Engagement

• Assist in planning annual external engagement strategy.
• Engage with external stakeholders, including government agencies, NGOs, and UN agencies, to coordinate and advocate for nutrition and health interventions
• Support significant Response-level donor and technical partner engagements for nutrition/health resource development and information sharing.
• Represent the organization in relevant coordination meetings, clusters, and working groups.
• Participate in relevant forums and conferences to share best practices and lessons learned.

Evidence and Learning

• Identify nutrition operations research (OR) and implementation research (IR) priorities in the response. Support OR and IR design.
• Identify and disseminate best practices, lessons learned, and innovations in nutrition from the response. Document and share case studies and lessons learned to promote knowledge sharing and improve program effectiveness..  
• Develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation plan for nutrition and health programs.
• Analyze data and generate evidence to inform programmatic decisions and improve outcomes.

Nexus Approach

• Ensure integration and coherence between nutrition, health, and other sectors in program planning and implementation.
• Advocate for a holistic approach that addresses the interconnectedness of nutrition, health, and other sectors.
• Strengthen the implementation of the Nexus Approach by ensuring integration on humanitarian/development/peacebuilding initiatives.
• These efforts include stronger and more focused joint analysis, strategic planning and programming and more joint learning (field trips, evaluations etc.) between humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding actors.
• Focus on working in collaboration and complementarity between humanitarian and development actors and knowing that Field Offices will become more and more affected by the climate change, food insecurity, extreme poverty might lead to more conflicts over the scarce resources and the presence. ​Work with humanitarian, development and peace actors to find solutions, to if/when possible, prevent conflict, violence (and population movement) to happen.

Collaboration and cross functional work:

• In collaboration with M&E, Communications review Our Impact annual reports and provide feedback as needed.
• Provide technical support and review for process monitoring and some outcome and impact M&E in collaboration with regional  DME teams. Limited mainly to large and/or grant-funded programs.
• Together with advocacy director, ensure Response understand nutrition /health related advocacy issues and campaigning inputs for strategy.
• Coordinate H&N community of practice (CoP) in the Response through coordinating the monthly session with the response M&E advisor.
• Facilitate capacity building initiatives for staff and partners on nutrition and health-related topics.

Other responsibilities:

• Support the development and implementation of organizational policies and procedures related to nutrition and health.
• Contribute to organizational learning by sharing knowledge and experiences with colleagues.
• Attend and participate in weekly chapel services and daily devotional meetings.
• Carry out additional responsibilities and projects as assigned, including administrative and planning functions.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE

Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification

• Master Degree in Public Health, Nutrition or related field. A deep knowledge of emergency health and nutrition issues that affect the region, with significant nutrition experience in the Response region.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills, particularly in a cross-cultural environment.
• Strong planning and organizational skills and ability to prioritize multiple activities.
• Ability to represent WV, particularly with donors and partners.
• Experience managing field-level programs.
• Experience working remotely.

Required Professional Experience

• At least 5-7 years of relevant experience in humanitarian emergency response, with a focus on nutrition and health in emergency setting.
• Demonstrated experience in planning, implementing, and monitoring nutrition and health programs in emergency settings.
• Strong technical expertise in emergency nutrition and health, including experience in conducting nutrition assessments, surveys, and evaluations.
• Proven experience in providing technical guidance and support to enhance emergency response capabilities, with a focus on improving health and nutrition outcomes for affected populations.
• Experience in collaborating with stakeholders to develop and implement evidence-based strategies, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services in line with humanitarian standards and guidelines.
• Significant bi-lateral, multi-lateral donor grant experience with program design, implementation, funding acquisition and reporting.
• Experience in resource mobilization, including developing capability statements and assisting in program design for funding proposals.
• Knowledge of and experience in establishing standards, sharing best practices, and building partnerships with relevant stakeholders and institutions.
• Familiarity with the health and nutrition working group and cluster coordination mechanisms in humanitarian settings.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Knowledge of World Vision operations, regional and national office programming preferable.
• Must be a creative individual with strong sense of vision, commitment and priorities.
• Demonstrated commitment to World Vision’s mission statement and Core Values Working.
• Proven track record of growing communities of practice and influencing senior field stakeholders (Eg. Operations Directors, Head of Mission etc) is vital.
• Able to think and plan strategically and do practical field assessments, visits, proposal writing etc.
• Experience in development of projects, training materials, conducting training (face to face and online) and providing technical assistance.
• Understanding of the sector, donor and UN landscape for ESCA.
• Technical skills: Knowledge of ESCA Project models and approaches is desirable.
• Other: Clear communication skills, written and spoken high influencer, engager and an innovator, Techno survey, Trainer/coach, Research. Strong relationship building/network capacity, spiritual maturity in the Christian faith, ability to influence, innovative, and proactive personality. 

Preferred Experience,Knowledge and/or other Qualifications

• Highly developed external engagement and networking skills.
• Strong project management skills, including experience with research and development of programming models.
• Excellent writing skills as shown through technical documents, thought pieces, and proposals.
• Demonstrated willingness to be flexible and versatile in a changing work environment while maintaining effectiveness and efficiency.
• Ability to motivate and develop staff.
• Experience leading a task force or community of practice or learning.
• Understanding of climate change risks and challenges.
• Strong understanding of global strategies and frameworks on environmental stewardship and climate change.
• Knowledge on legal international conventions related to health and Nutrition.
• Strong negotiation, collaboration, networking, liaison, and donor engagement skills.
• Demonstrated proficiency using Excel, Microsoft Suite of products, databases and statistical packages.
• Consistently demonstrates high-level influence and strategic engagement skills and tactical savvy in delivery of technical assistance.
• Ability to think broadly and look at the macro, strategic issues to inform strategy choices and management pro.
• Critical thinking skills to relate to work performed to broader business context.

Required travel and/or work environment accommodations

• Ability to travel to/within domestically and Internationally as required.
• Work hours are often in excess of 12 hours per day during difficult periods of the response.  
• Responses are often mounted in insecure or natural disaster-prone contexts, which may disrupt normal work patterns and generate staff safety issues.
• Work and housing environments may at times be well below normal standards in terms of facilities, equipment, food availability and hygiene.

Effective written and verbal communication in English. Other UN languages such as French, Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese, are preferred.

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