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World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking a Nutritionist in Addis Ababa, WFP Ethiopia Country Offices (COs). Job holders are likely to report to a more senior Nutritionist or Programme Officer.
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies, and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. WFP’s efforts focus on emergency assistance, relief and rehabilitation, development aid, and special operations.
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Key Accountabilities (not all-inclusive)
1. Duties and Responsibilities at CO level for the TSF programme
- Act as a focal point for updating and maintaining an overview of the TSF pipeline vis-à-vis planned distributions.
- Undertake and lead training and technical review meetings of the second generation TSF in the implementing regions
- Ensure quality of data/ monthly statistics collected from the second generation woredas in the regions
- Also, regularly collect TSF food stock status reports from the logistic WFP platform and update the TSF team and databases as required.
- Also, liaise with logistics on technical support for the programme
- Act as a focal point for Annual Country Report issues in the team for the assigned regions
- In addition, act as a budget focal person in TSF semi-annual or quarterly budget preparations
- Also, prepare the monthly cash forecast in consultation with the team
- Moreover, as per the newly introduced system, follow up Best-Before-Use dates of TSF commodities, release food and arrange savings and borrowings
2. Act as Interface between WFP Country / Sub Offices and Regional Health Bureau and Regional Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Bureau for assigned Regions
- Providing detailed and updated knowledge on regions
- Ensure professional working relationship between WFP SO, CO, and RHB/DPPBs through the provision of technical guidance in planning and monitoring of BSF/TSF activities
- Support the SO for improved dialogue with counterpart government offices for better linkages and partnership on the ground
- Ensure SO and RHB/DDPBs participate in the Regional Nutrition Coordination platform meetings and that minutes of the meeting are shared for follow up
- Jointly plan field visits to IMAM sites with SO focal persons, field monitors B/TSF regional coordination unit, and produce and review reports
- Facilitate regional mission including donor missions, workshops, and meetings in consultation with the SO and regional TSF coordination unit
- Provide technical guidance to donors’ monitoring visits as well as ensure that B/TSF-related information/ guidance is provided to new field staff, analyze and provide feedback on SO reports.
- Document and disseminate best practices and experiences from the regional, district-level review meetings and if possible, organize experience sharing tours among the regions and best performing woredas
- Moreover, analyze screening figures versus dispatch figures and provide feedback to CO and SO for follow-up action.
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3. WFP CO focal point for DPPB for assigned Regions
- Facilitate the organization of required training for counterpart staff on planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting phase of the project cycle
- Ensure that monitoring requirements are met and that monitoring is conducted and documented following the corporate indicators
- Ensure that RHB/DPPB can review and report on the planned TSF activities on both an annual and quarterly.
- Verify the quality of implementation processes, through organizing routine and regular review, field visits, and meetings, and provide timely feedback
- Support the regular exchange of information on program matters
- Ensure the functioning of regional biannual/annual review, coordination meeting/ forum.
- Provide technical support to regional counterpart offices and back-up to WFP SO, to pilot and monitor new approaches with partners.
- Liaise with logistics and provide technical advice and support on warehouse management, tendering as well as contracting process to the DPPBs
- Collect and analyze standard reporting formats on stock balance, quarterly dispatch report, quarterly expenditure report, as well as monitoring report
- Ensure FLA’s are prepared, signed, and shared with the regions timely
- Also, ensure that regions submit timely, regularly, as well as consistently dispatch reports, allocation plans, and cash requests according to implementation procedures.
- Ensure that food release and cash requests are processed timely within the CO
- Verify the quality of monitoring and dispatch reports and document the outcome
- Moreover, summarize and submit findings to the team leader and team members
4. Other duties
Other duties related to the TSF programme as assigned by the team leader.
Minimum Qualification
- Post-graduate education and experience in Nutrition, Public Health, Epidemiology, or related areas OR Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition. You should also have at least 5 years experience in Nutrition in Emergency
- Advanced university degree with at least 3 years relevant experience in Nutrition relevant fields or bachelor’s degree with at least 5 years of experience in Nutrition in Emergency operations.
- Previous work with Ethiopian GoE Sectors (MoH, e.g.) and local Academic institutions represent an asset.
- Fluency in Microsoft package: MS Word, Excel, Power-point at least.
- Moreover, English fluency (written and oral).
- Also, knowledge of any Ethiopian local language is an asset.
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Functional Capabilities
| Capability Name | Description of the behavior expected for the proficiency level |
| Knowledge of Nutrients | Utilizes knowledge of vitamins and nutrients to understand the causes of malnutrition, the relationships between the different types of malnutrition, and can articulate the UNICEF conceptual model. |
| Situation Analysis and Evidence Assessment | Able to appropriately interpret the nutrition situation, analyze primary causes of malnutrition, define limitations to the analysis and prepare an overview of the food security and nutrition situation in the country. |
| Knowledge of Public Health | Has foundational knowledge of the core public health sciences to assess a country’s/region’s health situation. |
| Knowledge of Food System | Ability to analyze how food systems influence the diets of vulnerable groups and identify how and where food systems may contribute to specific nutrient gaps. |
| Applying Programme & Policy Standards | Leverages nutrition knowledge to provide technical advice to governments to design and implement country nutrition programmes |
Specifications
| Type of Opportunity | General Job |
|---|---|
| Deadline | 25 January,2022 |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Company Name | World Food Programme (WFP) |
| City | Addis Ababa |