Nutrition Officer

Company: UNHCR
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Job sector: Health & Pharmaceutical
Job type: Permanent
Reference: 10085

The incumbent of the position will oversee and supervise the nutrition and food security programmes in all camps of Dollo Ado, and provide strong technical guidance to partners.

Job Description

Duties and Qualifications

Nutrition Officer

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:

Direct supervision and guidance is received from the Senior Programme Officer and overall supervision from the Head of Sub-office. Close functional linkages and technical guidance will be established with the Health and Nutrition Officer at BO, Senior Regional Nutrition and Food Security Officer.

In order to ensure wider reach out to the refugee and ensure their close involvement in the delivery and management of Food and nutrition services, the incumbent will need to establish an appropriate consultative and monitoring framework which would draw the experience and expertise of a wide range of actors both internally and externally.

The incumbent of the position will oversee and supervise the nutrition and food security programmes in all camps of Dollo Ado, and provide strong technical guidance to partners, monitor and evaluate the programme, actively participate in Health coordination meetings and play leading role on issues related to nutrition and food security. The incumbent will demonstrate strong representational, networking and negotiation skills with internal and external stakeholders such as the Government counterparts, UN Agencies and implementing partners in the operational area.

FUNCTIONAL STATEMENT:

Accountability (key results that will be achieved)
- UNHCR¿s country operation has sufficient technical support in the field of Nutrition thus better able to meet the needs of persons of concern.

Responsibility (process and functions undertaken to achieve results)
- Monitor and evaluate country-level Nutrition programmes against standard UNHCR and international indicators to ensure that programmes are evidence-based and implemented in a comprehensive and cost-effective manner.
- Ensure UNHCR¿s active involvement in all aspects of programme monitoring and evaluation with emphasis on checking levels of implementation and impact vis-à-vis resource inputs to measure cost-effectiveness and re-orient the programmes as appropriate.
- Monitor nutrition programme with emphasis on:
o Application of standard guidelines and protocols;
o Comprehensiveness of nutrition programme.
o Apply various mechanisms and tools to ensure proper monitoring including:
- Site visits
- Regular flow of information (reporting)
- Conventional/non-conventional surveys and evaluation studies
- Coordination meetings with health implementing partners
o Providing technical support and guidance to implementing/operational partners where required;
o Undertake Data analysis and interpretation;
o Support periodic nutrition surveys;
o Regularly update on the nutrition situation in the three camps.
- Support capacity building initiatives so that refugees and other persons of concern UNHCR and its partners acquire the needed knowledge, skills, and sense of responsibility and ownership of programmes.

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