The following vacancy exist at Catholic Relief Services
NUTRITION TECHNICAL ADVISOR
DEPARTMENT: Programming
REPORTS TO: Program Technical Director
LOCATION: Benue, Nigeria
JOB SUMMARY
The nutrition technical advisor (NTA) will work as a member of a
multi-disciplinary technical team to achieve the strategic objective of a large
program designed to address the needs of vulnerable children and their households in five states working in close collaboration with
States and civil society organizations (CSOs). The NTA will provide technical
support primarily in the area of nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene
(WASH) and health, but also support cross-cutting themes and integration
efforts in other areas of the program programming, especially household
economic strengthening and food security. S/he will lead planning and capacity
strengthening efforts while putting in place operational strategies for
achieving project aims, results and performance expectations through adherence
to high standards of programmatic and management quality. The NTA will be
expected to engage with the broader Nigerian nutrition and health communities
ensuring that promising practices are shared and incorporated into program activities.
QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCES:
• Minimum of Master’s Degree in Public Health, Nutrition or related field
required.
• Minimum 6 years technical experience with community-level health and/or
nutrition programs in Nigeria. Experience with behavior change analysis and
communication, IMCI, CMAM, WASH and lYCF interventions desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government and civil
society partners and communities as well as transfer
knowledge to diverse audiences through workshops, training and meetings using
participatory methods and adult learning
principles.
• Proven leadership and inter-personal skills for effective team work; as
well as the ability to work independently on a frequent basis, taking
initiative, managing a variety of activities concurrently, and delivering
outputs on schedule.
• Demonstrated ability to support partners working at a distance to
achieve results against program objectives/targets.
• Successful experience in project design and proposal development in the
nutrition health sector for USAID/PEPFAR
preferred.
• Experience with monitoring and evaluation and reporting nutrition
activities.
• Good knowledge or Government of Nigeria nutrition and health priorities
with experience working with Ministry or Health
and other relevant entities.
• Familiarity with OVC programming and principles.
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills required.
• Excellent analytic, organizational and computer skills: skilled in MS
Office including Word, Excell, Outlook, and Power point. Experience with Share
Point a plus.
Physical Requirements/Environment: Normal conditions akin to office
environment, based in Benne; willingness and ability to travel within the
country up to 60%
TO APPLY
Interested applicants should download the CRS application form using this link http://www.dropbox.com/s/106q5xifhyfusa3/CRS-%20Application%20Form.doc
and send with detailed CV as
attached MS Word document to ng_jobs@global.crs.org
DUE DATE: 15 July, 2013
