Emergency Response Roster - Nutrition & Health Technical Advisor - In Emergency

Emergency Response Roster
- Nutrition & Health Technical Advisor
- In Emergency

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type
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International Assignment – Fixed Term

Country location to be determined based on response. Please submit your Cover Letter and CV in English.

Children’s lives can change in an instant in the wake of war, disasters and humanitarian emergencies. We see how vulnerable they are and how much they need our protection. Joining our Emergency Response Roster means you can be a part of our response, providing immediate support when disaster strikes.

As a Nutrition & Health Technical Advisor
, your primary responsibility is to ensure the effective planning, implementation, and monitoring of nutrition and health programs in emergency settings. This entails providing technical guidance and support to enhance emergency response capabilities, with a specific focus on improving health and nutrition outcomes for affected populations.

Additionally, you will collaborate with stakeholders to develop and implement evidence‑based strategies, ensuring the delivery of high‑quality services in alignment with humanitarian standards and guidelines. Moreover, you'll play a vital role in resource mobilization efforts by developing capability statements and assisting in program design for funding proposals.

In your role, you will establish standards, share best practices, and foster partnerships with relevant stakeholders and institutions to strengthen program effectiveness. You will closely collaborate with the health and nutrition working group and cluster to enhance external representation and coordination efforts.

• Lead the development of a sector response plan and provide strategic guidance for emergency health and nutrition response in the deployed country and emergency settings.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of nutrition and health programs in emergency settings.
• Develop and oversee the implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for nutrition and health interventions.
• Ensure compliance with humanitarian standards and guidelines in all program activities. Provide technical support to ensure the successful implementation of emergency health and nutrition interventions, including nutrition assessments. Build capacity in emergency health and nutrition assessment and survey methodologies.
• Contribute to Response’s technical programs development and roll out with focus on child well‑being through peace, protection and opportunity.
• Provide technical support to Nutrition and health initiatives (both developmental and emergency nutrition) in the Response.
• Provide leadership in mainstreaming and scaling up promising nutrition/health practices with special focus on integration.
• Support assessment, monitoring and evaluation processes to monitor input, outcome and impact across the response on emergency nutrition/health programming using selected regional nutrition/health indicators of Our Promise CWBO5&6.
• Provide on‑site technical support for existing and new health and nutrition projects.
• Provide technical support for successful implementation of emergency and developmental nutrition/health research projects and publications.
• Coordinate capacity‑building rollout plans for maternal and child health and establish nutrition approaches and implementation of core intervention project models (tCC/CHW, PD/Hearth etc.).

• Develop capability statements and contribute to program design for funding proposals.
• Identify and pursue funding opportunities to support nutrition and health programs. Support the response team in exploring and pursuing multilateral, bilateral, and private health and nutrition funding opportunities.
• Liaise with donors and partners to…