UNICEF China calls eligible candidates to apply for the available job vacancy of Consultant – Infant and Young Breast Feeding

Role 

The position holder will be responsible for program focused on infant and young child nutrition, that seeks to finalize and promote the competency-based Infant and Young Child Feeding counseling package, strengthen capacity among health workers through the implementation of IYCF counseling training, supporting the scaling up of Ying Yang Bao, supporting a joint WASH- Nutrition program in Qinghai.

Key Duties 

• Providing technical assistance to the competency-based Infant and Young Child Feeding counseling package.
• Supporting counterparts to implement IYCF counseling training and assist in monitoring outputs and routine assessment of results.
• Similarly, supporting integrated nutrition and WASH intervention in Qinghai provinces such as supporting in IYCF training for health workers from county and village level and the implementation of IYCF counseling.
• Providing technical assistance to the development of assessment tools of IYCF counseling.
• Also, providing technical assistance to national priority programs like IYCF improvement in Ying Yang Bao(YYB) project counties, with training packages, monitoring tools and demand generation strategies.
• Conducting regular program field visits and surveys and/or exchange information with partners/stakeholders monitor and also giving technical support, communicate with counterparts on project feasibility and effectiveness.
• Collecting and analyzing data for nutrition program planning, management, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Furthermore, supporting documentation of best practices for learning purposes, such as YYB scaling up in China.

Requirements 

• Master’s or higher in nutrition, nutrition epidemiology, international health, public health, food science or another related field.
• In addition to that, at least five years of professional working experience in nutrition, maternal, infant and child health, nutrition care, or public health
• Experience with management and coordination of projects is also necessary.
• Furthermore, fluency in English and Chinese is necessary.

Competencies

• Respect for and adherence to UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Inclusion, Integrity and proven understanding and sensitivity to cultural diversity.
• Interpersonal skills, capacity to work with different personalities to deliver on shared results.
• Drive for results, setting high standards for the quality of work; as well as the capacity to think outside of the box and drive innovation.
• Strong communication skills, fluently and confidently gathering and expressing and writing opinions and information.

For more information about this Job Vacancy at UNICEF China, see  ToR_Consultant on child nutrition – for VA 20200213.docx