Concern Worldwide Scale Up Nutrition Programme Manager Job Vacancy in Iringa, Tanzania

• Provide proactive leadership and management to
  add value to developing the programme, promote best practices, contribute
  to on-going learning, and develop new programming opportunities.
• Recruit and train a Tanzanian national
  counterpart to take over the Programme Manager role in Year 3 of the
  programme.
• Provide technical assistance (advice,
  training, capacity building, documentation, etc.) for all staff and
  counterparts involved with the programme.

• Provide leadership to LGA counterparts to
  demonstrate the value of cross sector approaches to mitigating under
  nutrition
• Participate in and support Country Management
  Team in strengthening coordination collaboration and making strategic
  decisions with emphasis on the nutrition sector, maintain and ensure
  constructive communications, contribute to a positive working environment.

• Take responsibility for all programme
  resources and assets ensuing that all are well managed.
• With the assistance of the ACD Programmes and
  project staff develop and implement programme plans, programme reviews and
  evaluations.
• Work with the ACD programmes, ACD Programme
  Support , and the M&E officer to ensure that the M&E system
  provides appropriate and adequate information for learning and timely
  decision making and that staffs maintain systematic data collection and
  analysis. Effectively use regular M&E feedback to adjust programming
  and ensure relevance. Activities include SMART surveys, routine weekly and
  monthly data collection, operational research and other program surveys
  undertaken under the health and nutrition department.
• Hold, manage and oversee the health and
  nutrition budget by providing monthly (and as needed) feedback on
  management accounts.
• Take a proactive role in the development of
  additional projects complementing the nutrition programme supporting its
  objective to address malnutrition through a multi-sectoral approach such
  as agriculture, WATSAN and education. Technical assistance will be
  provided for these areas but the programme manager will be expected to
  gain a working knowledge of these approaches and to strengthen linkages
  between them within Concern and partners.
• Ensure all programme staff/partners are fully
  oriented in Concern’s policies and procedures, Programme Participant
  Protection Policy, HAP principles and commitments.

• Ensure high quality and timely reports are
  developed for donors and counterparts.
• Produce a monthly report of the health and
  nutrition programme highlighting key progress, achievements and
  challenges.
• Participate in the writing of surveys reports,
  technical reports or other reporting related to the nutrition programme
• Initiate the writing up of learning papers for
  internal and external audience.

• Liaise closely with livelihood and Water &
  Sanitation programme staff to ensure programme integration
• Represent Concern in the monthly Nutrition
  Development Partners Group meetings.
• Develop and maintain good professional
  relationships with programme partners: the Ministry of Health, UNICEF and
  any implementing NGOs.
• Coordinate well with ministries, international
  agencies, NGOs, partners and other stakeholders particularly working in
  health, nutrition and agriculture in the target Regions to further the
  aims of the multi-sectoral programme and Concern.

• Masters in Nutrition, Public Health or
  equivalent qualification.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in
  public health and project/programme management, with significant
  experience in developing/managing health and nutrition projects in a
  development context
• Conversant with the Scale Up Nutrition
  approach and its implications for cross sector work
• Knowledge and experience in the most common
  assessment and survey methodologies such as SMART, KPC and related
  software.
• Experience with budgeting and financial
  monitoring processes as well as project management tools
• Strong staff management, capacity building and
  supervision skills
• Good representational skills and able to
  undertake advocacy at a high level to further the programme goals
• Proficient spoken and written English
• Computer proficiency with Microsoft Word and
  Excel
• Capacity to work on a multidisciplinary team,
  and see the importance of multidisciplinary action for achieving health
  and nutrition impact and to tackle severe poverty
• Experience in strategic development of country
  level health programming, including mainstreaming of cross cutting themes
  such as HIV and AIDS, gender, and equality 

DESIRABLE

• Fluency in or working knowledge of Swahili
• Experience in working with partner
  organizations, health ministries, networking and donor relations
• Experience working in nutrition interventions,
  including CMAM
• Experience working with mother and child
  health related projects
• Experience in community mobilization /
  behavioural change strategies
• Experience developing monitoring and
  evaluation frameworks for health and nutrition programmes
• Training of trainers & facilitation skills
  Special Skills, Aptitude or Personality 

Requirements:

• Ability to work on their own initiative and to
  motivate diverse stakeholders behind a single strategy
• Commitment to the Scale Up Nutrition
  Principles