Afghanistan: A NUTRITION AND HEALTH COORDINATOR

Length of Contract: 12 months, renewable, starting from 25th April 2016**

Under the supervision of the Country Director, you will be responsible to ensure the development and design of the nutrition & health country strategy and quality programming in line with ACF and country technical policies. More precisely, you will be responsible to :

Mission 1: Design, develop and evaluate actions in the field of nutrition and health

The Head of Nutrition and Health Department is responsible for:

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  collection and quality control of monitoring, follow up and evaluation data

  
  


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  production’s quality for the nutritional situation analysis

  
  


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  the standard of nutritional and medical proposals submitted by his/her teams

  
  


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  encouraging his/her teams to identify new programmes

  
  


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  development of an ACF nutrition and health strategy specific to the mission

  
  

Mission 2: Monitor and coordinate programmes in the fields of nutrition and health

The Head of Nutrition and Health Department is responsible for:

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  deciding to launch nutritional surveys in liaison with the Country Director

  
  


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  development of integrated (inter-disciplinary) approach programmes

  
  


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  collection and analysis of data, including the decisions making on this basis

  
  


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  Providing activity report of quality In the given timeline

  
  


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  monitoring all the consolidated programme budgets relating to nutrition and health allocated to the country

  
  

Mission 3 : Manage the Nutrition and Health team in capital if any and be the Technical/Support Manager of the Nutrition and Health Program Managers

The Head of Nutrition and Health Department is responsible for :

Mission 4 : Develop and launch programmes in collaboration with governmental and local agencies

The Head of Nutrition and Health Department is responsible for :

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  Dissemination of the ACF nutrition and health strategy at country level to partners and funding bodies

  
  


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  Developing and maintaining a network of harmonious and productive relationships with national representatives and programme partners (funding bodies, other NGOs, etc)

  
  


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  Establishing MoU to define the terms of various partnership

  
  

Mission 5: Represent Action Contre la Faim and its positioning in the field of nutrition and health

The Head of Nutrition and Health Department is responsible for :

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  Representing ACF in dealings with national and international authorities on matters of health and nutrition

  
  


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  Making national and international authorities fully aware of the ACF positions and protocols

  
  

The applicant:

You hold a Master degree in Nutrition, Medical Doctor, Public Health or equivalent and have a minimum of two years field experience in coordination positions, with an NGO, on preventing malnutrition programmes.

You hold an extensive experience in Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition and community based approach and a proven experience in nutrition programs designing. An experience in both emergencies and development contexts is required.

Experiences of working in partnerships and advocate for improvements in the Nutrition Sector at the National level, as well as knowledge of systems strengthening, are required.

A proven experience in writing proposals, leading on sourcing of new funding and developing coherent and contextualized Nutrition Strategies will be compulsory.

Excellent diplomacy, organisational, communication and representation skills are required.

Excellent team management experience compulsory: You have been recognized as a trainer and a coach for national members of your team.

Fluency in English (oral and written) is compulsory.