Emergency Nutrition Manager Surge Team

Emergency Nutrition Manager
SURGE Team

Working with the world’s poorest people to transform their lives, Concern Worldwide is an international humanitarian organisation dedicated to tackling poverty and suffering in the world’s poorest countries. We work in partnership with the very poorest people in these countries, directly enabling them to improve their lives, as well as using our knowledge and experience to influence decisions made at a local, national and international level that can significantly reduce extreme poverty.


Job Title:
Emergency Nutrition Manager (SURGE Team )
Reports to:
• Head of Emergency Support Systems
• Relevant ACD Programmes or CD when overseas
Direct reports:
Programme staff
Job Location:
Members of Concern’s Surge Team will be deployed to any of Concern’s country programmes for varying time periods, usually ranging from 4 weeks to up to 6 months. It is anticipated that members of the Surge Team will be deployed at all times, but if not, they will work from their own home rather than the Concern office.
Contract Details:
• I year Full Time Fixed Term Contract
• Unaccompanied position
• 8 weeks annual leave, plus R+R during deployments where this is relevant
• 3 weeks home-based work

All Surge Team members must be available to deploy overseas within 24 hours of being requested to deploy.
Pay Band: 5 (€41,281 - €48,151)
Job Purpose:
To fill gaps in non-emergency programmes and existing chronic emergency contexts. To participate in emergency assessments and to manage health and/or nutrition elements of emergency responses
Main duties &
Responsibilities:
Key aspects of the Emergency Nutrition Manager’s role may include:

Emergency Response
• Participate in emergency assessments
• Manage health and/or nutrition elements of emergency responses

Leadership and Capacity Building
• Provide proactive leadership and management to add value to existing programming and develop new programming with the ACD-Programmes in line with the country strategy
• Provide strategic leadership to the nutrition teams, advancing good practice and ensuring that all programme elements are delivered to plan
• Effectively use regular M&E feedback to adjust programming and ensure relevance
• Contribute to a culture of communication to ensure strong links with other programme managers and departments to reinforce a strong programme approach
• Actively engage with and contribute to Concern Worldwide’s on-going learning in nutrition

Management
• Ensure that programme activities are continuously monitored, evaluated and reported upon
• Ensure that the budget is effectively monitored and managed
• Manage, mentor and coach to the nutrition programme team
• Work with the ACD-Programmes to advance funding strategies and ensure all nutrition programmes are adequately resourced
• Ensure effective management of all aspects of relevant grants. Ensure timely and high quality donor reports as per the donor agreements
• If appropriate, work with the engineering team for the planning, siting and supervision of nutrition infrastructure

Representation
• Act as Concern’s nutrition representative with other the agencies (including in cluster co-ordination meetings), government, non-state actors, and donors as required by the programme

• Represent Concern in emergency and emergency-oriented nutrition working groups and coordination bodies and contribute to interagency guidelines and other tools/outputs as requested

Person specification:
Essential:
• Nutrition professional with strong background in Public Health
• Appropriate Masters Level Qualification is preferable: Nutrition, Public Health, Community Health
• Minimum of three years’ experience in the management of nutrition programmes in developing countries/emergency situations, preferably with an NGO
• Experience in nutrition needs assessment and project development
• Familiarity with emergency feeding interventions and the CMAM model
• Familiarity with the Sphere guidelines

Desirable:
• Fluent French
• Knowledge of Concern systems and procedures
• Experience of working in insecure contexts
To apply: A CV and cover letter should be submitted through our website at www.concern.net/jobs December 12th, 2014
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