Concern recruits 01 Nutrition and Health Adviser – Flexible location

Concern’s Health Policy Aim (2019) is to contribute to a reduction in mortality and morbidity rates and to improve health security for all. The goal of Concern’s Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Strategy 2018-2022 is to achieve significant and lasting improvements in the survival, health and well-being of the extreme poor. Concern’s MNCH strategic objectives are: 1) Supporting Communities to achieve better health outcomes; 2) Develop and implement a concrete approach to Health System Strengthening; and 3) Undertaking an appropriate emergency response, with overarching cross-cutting issues including equality, HIV, human rights-based approaches and quality oversight in all contexts.

Job Purpose: With a rapidly expanding portfolio in the area of health and nutrition, Concern is seeking to expand our team. The nutrition and health adviser’s prime responsibility within the MNCH/Health Systems Support (HSS) Team is to ensure high quality technical support to Concern’s nutrition and health work in emergency, fragile and development contexts, targeting especially extremely poor and vulnerable populations, to develop and document best practices and to promote organisational learning, liaising closely with the Concern Nutrition and WASH teams in the Strategy, Advocacy and Learning (SAL) Unit.

The successful candidate will report to the Senior Health and HIV Adviser on a day-to-day basis, will have strong links with Concern’s offices in New York and London, will be an active member of the nutrition, health (Including Community Management of Acute Malnutrition/CMAM), HIV and HSS technical assistance team which is part of the SAL Unit in Dublin increasingly supporting integrated programming responses in health, education, livelihoods and social protection. Approximately 40% of travel time is anticipated for this position.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

Provide guidance and technical support to nutrition and health programmes that prevent under-nutrition, treat malnutrition (i.e. CMAM, CMAM Surge and Health Surge) and improve health service delivery. Guidance and support may be in the form of supporting contextual analysis, proposal development, project design, project implementation and monitoring and evaluation. Both remote and face-to-face technical and administrative support will be required.
Support fundraising teams in the exploration of health and nutrition funding opportunities and as requested the preparation and submission of concept papers, proposals and budgets.
Facilitate cross-country learning, synthesis, documentation and sharing of experience / learning of nutrition and health within the organisation.
Help develop internal organisational nutrition and health training and development of tools/guidelines/standards in line with international best practice to improve programme quality.
Foster technical capacity building of field staff through technical updates, training opportunities, exchange visits, literature sharing etc.
Actively engage in nutrition and health networks with key institutions /agencies, universities and donors within the UK, Europe and US as appropriate.
Strengthen alliances between Concern and other stakeholders involved with nutrition and health programming at international and national levels.
Document and disseminate experiences and lessons learned on each of the programme areas to ensure Concern’s profile amongst peer organisations is raised at international and national levels.
Participate in recruitment for technical nutrition and health positions in Concern countries of operation.
Actively engage with the technical assistance teams based in UK/US/Ireland to support cross- organisational learning and coordination.
Support nutrition and health related advocacy initiatives as required.
Provide input into Concern Dublin’s promotional, media and communications materials on nutrition and health.
Participate as a member of Concern’s Emergency Response, Surge Team, responding to humanitarian emergencies as necessary.
Contribute to the overall mission of Concern Worldwide and assist other members of the Concern team as requested.

Expériences / Formation

Requirements

Masters (MSc) in Nutrition/Public Health or related discipline
At least three to five (3-5) years’ experience working in nutrition and health, especially the broader health systems including service delivery, health workforce, information, supply chain, financing and stewardship particularly in conflict setting or fragile states
French language competency, oral and written
Experience in working in Sub-Saharan Africa contexts, urban or rural
Experience working with scaling up and integrating CMAM and/or other health and nutrition interventions into Ministry of Health (MoH) systems
Solid understanding and experience implementing strategies to strengthen capabilities and engagement of community institutions to demand and utilize primary health services.
Excellent inter-personal, communications and facilitation skills
Familiar with global and regional health and nutrition networks
Skills in training and mentoring
Ability to work within multi-cultural teams
Ability to manage own work
Flexibility and ability to work under pressure
Willingness to travel routinely both domestically and international, including on short notice and for extended missions (up to 6 weeks)
Desirable:

Field experience in the prevention of under-nutrition and a strong understanding of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) framework and 1,000 days campaign
Field experience in emergency response or post-conflict setting and epidemic response
Experience with representation at national, regional and global nutrition networks
Experience in broader health programming; including HIV and AIDS mainstreaming and integration, and health institution and system strengthening for improved service delivery.
Experience with operational research and peer-review writing
Experience in integrating cross-cutting issues including equality, gender and human rights
Currently authorised to work in the Dublin, Ireland

Salaire

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Comment postuler

All applications should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net by closing date. CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length. Women candidates are encouraged to apply

Due to the urgency of this position, applications will be short listed on a regular basis and we may offer posts before the closing date.