Nutrition Officer / Cluster Coordinator

The Nutrition Officer / Nutrition Cluster Coordinator will support critical our client's nutrition program and nutrition cluster coordination activities in Gaza. The incumbent’s time will be dedicated 50% to nutrition cluster responsibilities and 50% to our clients nutrition program responsibilities.

Main Nutrition Officer duties include:

• Supporting nutrition partners to strengthen the early detection and treatment capacity for acute malnutrition among children up to 17 years and pregnant/breastfeeding women to avert severe outcomes and long-term impacts of malnutrition.

• Supporting the strengthening of the nutrition information system and comprehensive monitoring of partner reporting to identify reporting issues in a timely manner.

• Supporting partners to enhance their community engagement, accountability to affected populations and the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).

Main nutrition cluster coordination duties include:

• Strengthening of cluster coordination mechanisms, ensuring effective collaboration among Local, National Actors, UN agencies, INGOs, and affected populations.

• Facilitating communication and alignment between national and sub-national levels, and promoting inter-sectoral collaboration.

• Supporting the needs assessments, strategic planning, and response prioritization.

• Driving resource mobilization and advocacy efforts.

• Monitoring and reporting on sectoral response coverage, quality, and progress.

• Promoting accountability to affected populations and integrating cross-cutting issues (age, gender, disability, protection).

• Leading capacity strengthening initiatives and supporting emergency preparedness and resilience-building.

Programmatic Responsibilities (50%)

Capacity Building:

• Supporting nutrition partners to strengthen the early detection and treatment capacity for acute malnutrition among children up to 17 years and pregnant/breastfeeding women to avert severe outcomes and long-term impacts of malnutrition.

• Support the implementation of the 1,000-day approach, promote early breastfeeding in NICUs and health facilities, support complementary feeding, and establish safe nutrition spaces integrated with WASH, protection, and psychosocial support.

Nutrition Information Systems:

• Supporting the strengthening of the nutrition information system and comprehensive monitoring of partner reporting to identify reporting issues in a timely manner.

• Improve data quality, growth monitoring, and analysis; support planning for SMART surveys, sentinel surveillance, and micronutrient assessments as security situation allows.

Accountability to affected populations and PSEA:

• Supporting partners to enhance their community engagement, accountability to affected populations and the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse.

Malnutrition Prevention:

• Support the supplementary feeding, micronutrient supplementation, and cash/voucher assistance for children 6–59 months, adolescent girls, and pregnant/breastfeeding women.

Cluster Coordination Responsibilities (50%)

Supporting Service Delivery:

• Provide partners with clear guidance on scaling up services. This includes assigning partners to specific neighborhoods and sites to avoid overlap and ensure optimal coverage and orient them on cluster priorities. Support regular supply monitoring (availability/ gaps) and prioritization.

Informing Strategic Decisions of the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) and Humanitarian Country Team (HCT):

• Represent the nutrition cluster in the Area based Coordination meetings and in the JHOC meeting in the absence of the Nutrition Cluster Coordinator.

• Support the production of regular situation reports, depending on the JHOC and Gaza ICCG requirement.

• Support the partners for ongoing quality MUAC data collection and analysis used to estimate acute malnutrition across the Gaza Strip. In coordination with the key UN Agency (our client, WFP, and WHO) and the cluster IM, support partners for quality reporting through 5W, 3W and other key tools developed by the cluster, through constructive feedback.

Building National Capacity in Preparedness and Contingency Planning:

• Facilitate the scale up of ongoing training for cluster partners on CMAM, IYCF, and TSFP to strengthen local capacity and support integration into the health system.

• Support the development of new training at the demand of the Gaza cluster coordinator.

Advocacy:

• Participates in regular Joint Humanitarian Operations Center (JHOC) meetings and provides strategic updates on the nutrition situation.

• Advocate for funding for the sectors, especially through all Pool funded mechanisms (HF, CERF).

Accountability for affected population:

• In relation with PSEA, the protection cluster and link to the partner’s feedback mechanisms, ensure the voice and needs of the beneficiaries are taking into account in the cluster strategy and ways of working. Promote PSEA to the cluster partners.

The Nutrition Officer / Nutrition Cluster Coordinator will be required to provide frequent and adhoc reports as per the request of the supervisors.

• Works Collaboratively with others.

• Builds and Maintains Partnerships.

• Innovates and Embraces Change.

• Thinks and Acts Strategically.

• Drive to achieve impactful results.

• Manages ambiguity and complexity.

The consultant will not be required to manage teams.

Qualified female candidates ae encouraged to apply for this role.