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:
International Assignment– Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

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

• Technical Leadership – Lead the development of a sector response plan and provide strategic guidance for emergency health and nutrition response in the deployed country and in emergency settings. Provide technical guidance and leadership in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of nutrition and health programmes in emergency settings. Develop and oversee the implementation of SOPs for nutrition and health interventions. Ensure compliance with humanitarian standards and guidelines in all programme activities.
  
  Provide technical support to ensure 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 programmes 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. Supports 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 roll‑out plans for maternal‑child health and establishing nutrition approaches and implementation of core intervention project models (ttC/CHW, PD/Hearth, etc.).
• Resource Mobilisation – Develop capability statements and contribute to programme design for funding proposals. Identify and pursue funding opportunities to support nutrition and health programmes. Support the response team in exploring and pursuing multilateral, bilateral, and private health and nutrition funding opportunities. Liaise with donors and partners to secure resources for programme implementation. Develop high‑quality concept notes and proposals for emergency health and nutrition projects.
• External Engagement – Assist in planning annual external engagement strategy. Engage with external stakeholders, including government agencies, NGOs and UN agencies, to coordinate and advocate for nutrition and health interventions. Support significant Response‑level donor and technical partner engagements for nutrition/health resource development and information sharing. Represent the organisation in relevant coordination meetings, clusters and working groups. Participate in relevant forums and conferences to share best practices and lessons learned.
• Evidence and Learning – Identify nutrition operations research (OR) and implementation research (IR) priorities in the response. Support OR and IR design. Identify and disseminate best practices, lessons learned and innovations in nutrition from the response. Document and share case studies and lessons learned to promote knowledge sharing and improve programme effectiveness. Develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation plan for nutrition and health programmes.
  
  Analyse data and generate evidence to inform programmematic decisions and improve outcomes.
• Nexus Approach – Ensure integration and coherence between nutrition, health and other sectors in programme planning and implementation. Advocate for a holistic approach that…