Avis de recrutement : Recrutement d’un(e) Conseiller(ère) en nutrition à Mozambique.
About the role
The overall purpose of the position of Nutrition Advisor is to provide expertise in nutrition to support the quality of GAINs existing and future nutrition specific and sensitive interventions/activities and projects.
The Nutrition Advisor’s prime responsibility is to ensure a high quality of technical support to GAIN Mozambique’s work in both rural and urban development contexts. They will lead the development and documentation of best practices and promote organizational learning.
This position will functionally report to the Country Director, Mozambique with all technical aspects of the work managed by the Director, Knowledge Leadership. The Nutrition Advisor will represent GAIN Mozambique at industry meetings, forum, dissemination events and media events.
Key Responsibilities include.
- Provide guidance and technical support to GAIN’s activities in the form of program/project design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation.
- Support research and evidence translation efforts, working closely with colleagues from other units in GAIN through the preparation of proposals, reports, presentations, briefs, topic overviews and others as needed.
- Working with the Global KL team, support Country Director and Portfolio Leads as needed, including on resource mobilization and dissemination activities.
- Develop or improve monitoring, learning, research and evaluation frameworks and plans in collaboration with the GAIN KL and Program teams, and implementing partners, and closely monitor program outcomes and key deliverables.
- Lead critical analysis and interpretation of monitoring and research results to formulate recommendations on program actions, improvements, and lessons learned.
- Contribute to the development of research protocols and tools for research, assessment and evaluations that contribute directly to GAIN’s projects and activities, such as: formative research, rapid assessments, qualitative research, implementation research, process evaluation and landscape analysis.
- Act as GAIN’s focal point at MoH led technical working group, requesting and facilitating meetings as needed in order to complete project activities.
About you
The ideal candidate should have experience in delivering nutrition and/or nutrition sensitive programs in developing country settings with broad experience in public health nutrition program monitoring, operations and participatory research, and impact evaluation. Demonstrable experience in developing technical nutrition documents (policies, proposal, working papers, scientific papers, guides, etc).
The post holder should have experience engaging with MoH, donors and other key partners in the nutrition space in addition to providing expert input related to nutrition strategies to Government Policies. In depth knowledge of nutrition and critical analysis skills to evaluate the quality of research results and extract key learning and effective practices from research findings is required.
You should have excellent project management skills, notably developing and implementing workplans while ensuring timely and good-quality routine activity progress monitoring and reporting by implementing partners. You should be able to provide strategic and high-level analytical support in core programme design. The candidate should have an education background in Nutrition or Public Health in addition to related work experience.
This advert closes on 8th of March 2023. Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.
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