Programme Associate – Nutrition Full-Time

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.  Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Education:

• Secondary Degree with certificate in related areas such as: Public Health, Nursing; Nutrition; Rural Development, or any other Social Sciences;

Language:

• Fluency in spoken and written Portuguese and relevant local languages;
• Good understanding of English is ideal.

These jobs are found in Regional Bureaux (RBs), Country Offices (COs), Area/Field Offices (AOs/FOs). Under the direct supervision of WFP Head of Sub office, the Nutrition Programme Assistant (NPA) will support and build the districts authorities and cooperating partners (CPs) capacities in implementing and monitoring WFP supported nutrition interventions in Zambézia & Sofala province.

The Nutrition Programme Associate will contribute to strengthen skills and build capacities of government authorities at Provincial level and district level, through mentoring, coaching and on-the-job training.

• Support the district Governments and Cooperating partners in coordinating and ensure that MAM treatment core activities supported by WFP at Provincial/District levels are implemented with quality and timely;
• Support the provincial nutrition clusters’ action plans to respond to the nutrition humanitarian needs in the districts affected;
• Timely support to the development of internal WFP SO’s nutrition response plans (work plan, budget) for submission to CO’s approval;
• Determining needs for nutrition intervention and develop an action plan;
• Provide administrative support in subject matters related to nutrition;
• Liaise with DPS’s clinical partners (where available) to support the response through cases follow up with their community health workers at community level;
• Monitoring the implementing activities using corporate indicators;
• Forecasting on nutrition supplies and needs for the assigned district: RUSF, Super cereal and Non-Food Items, health personnel and WFP field monitors training, and supervision;
• Training on PRN I and II for both health staff and health partners involved in the nutrition response;
• Contribute to the Food Security Provincial cluster work plan to ensure alignment with the Provincial Nutrition Cluster work plan.

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
•  Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people’s skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
•  Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
•  Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.

Capability Name	Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level
Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance	Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design.
Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Vouchers)	Demonstrates ability to implement, under guidance, food assistance programmes deploying the full range of transfer modalities with an understanding of basic principles guiding modality selection and implementation.
Broad Knowledge of Specialized Areas	Understands basic technical concepts and data and their relevance to food assistance programmes.
Emergency Programming	Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes.
Strategic Policy Engagement w/Government	Understands and applies basic principles of engagement with government counterparts at the national or local level.

• Experience and knowledge of Nutrition intervention;
• At least 1 year of postgraduate progressively responsible professional experience in Public Nutrition and/or Public Health & Nutrition Programme management, Programme formulation, planning, monitoring and evaluation in public sector public health management or related field is an advantage;
• Experience in direct implementation of IMAM, micronutrient supplementation, maternal health and nutrition Programme and multi-sectoral responses addressing the underlying causes of undernutrition;
• Familiarization with latest developments, guidelines and standards, and technology in the field of Nutrition, especially in the prevention and treatment of maternal, neonatal and child undernutrition;
• Experience working in partnership with NGOs, government and civil society;
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills;
• UN experience, especially with WFP or UNICEF;
• Cluster experience.

• Has worked with technical teams (i.e. nutrition, VAM, etc.);
• Has contributed to implementation of programmes;
• Has observed or assisted with policy discussions.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Duration of assignment: 9 months ( Sofala) and 10 months ( Zambezia) Respectively.