Nutrition Manager, P-4, MENARO Gaziantep # 94249

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.

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Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

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How can you make a difference?

The Whole of Syria (WOS) nutrition sector coordinator will facilitate coherence and consistency of nutrition response in Syria across the operational hubs (e.g. Damascus, South Turkey and Jordan) in supporting nutrition response scale up. Though the full cluster responsibilities (as prescribed by IASC guidelines) are vested in the nutrition sectors/ clusters at the hub level, the role of WOS nutrition focal person will complement this role by ensuring that the decisions of the WOS Strategic Steering Group (SSG) are rolled out in the hubs as well as coordinating WOS nutrition response planning, analysis and reporting.

The position also facilitates timely and effective nutrition response in Syria and ensure appropriate capacity and guidance is provided to the respective coordination hubs and eventually achieve quality service delivery, scale up response and demonstrate results and impact achieved. This will also involve fostering close collaboration with other sectors and consolidating and verifying information generated thus enable the sector coverage and gap analysis possible.

The coordinator will provide authoritative technical guidance and management on nutrition to the Jordan based nutrition coordination forum for the Syria response.

1. Effective and efficient nutrition sectoral/cluster input into the WOS coordination architecture.

2. WOS planning and strategy development.

3. Needs assessment and analysis.

4. Information Management.

5. Development and application of standards in support of the WOS approach.

6. Advocacy and resource mobilization.

7. WOS monitoring and reporting.

8. Identification of key partners.

9. The post will manage UNICEF Nutrition programming for the South hub within the WoS coordination approach.  

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An Advanced University Degree in nutrition, nutritional epidemiology, public health, global/international health and nutrition, health/nutrition research, policy and/or management, or other health related science field is required.

• A minimum of 8 years of professional experience in public health/nutrition planning and management and/or in relevant areas of maternal, newborn and child nutrition health care at the international level some of which preferably in a developing country is required. Relevant experience in health/nutrition program/project development and management in any UN system agency or organization is an asset.

  Experience in cluster/sector coordination in complex emergency essential
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language is an asset

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.