Food Security Advisor Full-Time

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Save the Children invests in childhood – every day, in times of crisis and for our future. Around the world, we are dedicated to ensuring every child has the best chance for success. Our pioneering programs give children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. Our advocacy efforts provide a voice for children who cannot speak for themselves. As the leading expert on children, we inspire and achieve lasting impact for millions of the world’s most vulnerable girls and boys. By transforming children’s lives now, we change the course of their future and ours.

Save the Children in a federated Membership based organization employing approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in 117 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the rights of children and to ensure their voices are heard. We work together, with our partners, to inspire the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

USAID Advancing Nutrition is the Agency’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project, led by JSI

Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI), and a diverse group of experienced partners, including Save the Children. Launched in September 2018, USAID Advancing Nutrition implements nutrition interventions across sectors and disciplines for USAID and its partners. The project’s multi-sectoral approach draws together global nutrition experience to design, implement and evaluate programs that address the root causes of malnutrition. Committed to using a systems approach, USAID Advancing Nutrition strives to sustain positive outcomes by building local capacity, supporting behaviour change and strengthening the enabling environment to save lives, improve health, build resilience, increase economic productivity and advance development.

USAID Advancing Nutrition’s work in Mozambique will prioritize strengthening host government capacity to plan and manage nutrition programming, including strengthened human resource capacity to plan and manage nutrition programming as well as improved systems for coordination of multi-sectoral nutrition planning, programming, and evaluation. The project will also provide technical assistance to the USAID bilateral Transform Nutrition project in areas to be determined. Save the Children will serve as the project’s implementation lead in Mozambique, and the project will be known as USAID Promovendo a Nutrição.

Role purpose:

The Food Security Advisor will provide technical support to SETSAN in Nampula for improved coordination of multi-sectoral nutrition planning, programming, and evaluation. Support to SETSAN will reinforce the capacity associated with the implementation of the PAMRDC (currently in three selected districts supported by UNICEF) and extend to some new districts directly supported by the Transform Nutrition project.

Core accountabilities include:

• Programmatic: quality planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting;
• Representation and coordination within the organization and other stakeholders.

The position will work under the direct line management of the USAID Advancing Nutrition Chief of Party, and is expected to work closely and coordinate with other project staff and government counterparts.

Scope of role:

• Reports to: USAID Advancing Nutrition Chief of Party
• Staff reporting to this post: 0
• Direct: 0
• Indirect: 0
• Budget Responsibilities: No

Role Dimensions:

Execution of technical activities. Excellent relationships with USAID, USAID implementing partners, Ministry officials, local government officials, and community leaders.

Key areas of accountability:

Programmatic:

• Develop, guide and oversee the project’s technical activities related to support to SETSAN and the establishment of the COPSAN and CODSAN structures, including support for: capacity strengthening activities at the provincial and sub-provincial levels; technical input to program and policy development and planning; and data monitoring, interpretation, and reporting;
• Support the results reporting to monitor the project’s performance, including contributing to quarterly, annual and other ad hoc reporting to USAID and USAID Advancing Nutrition/HQ;
• Provide other technical support as requested.

Partner Relations:

• Engage and ensure strong working relationships with SETSAN, COPSAN, CODSAN, the DPS, Transform Nutrition, and other partners;
• Represent USAID Advancing Nutrition in national and regional forums as needed.

Other:

• Ensure Save the Children Child’s Protection and Safeguarding Children policies are understood, implemented and monitored and that it is integrated into all aspects of the team’s work;
• Ensure the USAID Advancing Nutrition Gender Equality Strategy is understood and incorporated into activities;
• Comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to child protection, health and safety, security, equal opportunities and other relevant policies;
• Develop and maintain a detailed understanding of the health and nutrition issues in Mozambique including national policy development, key players in government, INGOs, UN and national/regional and local civil society organisations.

Skills and behaviours (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values;
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved;
• Travel up to 40% time within Nampula Province and occasionally to Maputo.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same;
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others;
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters;
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength;
•  Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

Qualifications,experience and skills

• Master’s degree in nutrition, public health, food security, agriculture, social sciences, international development, or a related field; Ph.D. or M.D. preferred;
• At least 7 years of professional experience working with the Mozambique government and providing technical support to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MASA), SETSAN or related government bodies required;
• Strong knowledge of multi-sectoral nutrition and nutrition, food security, agriculture, health systems strengthening, quality improvement, quality assurance, behavior change communication, community development, and multi-sectoral collaboration. Experience specific to Nampula Province a strong plus;
• Experience working effectively in partnership with staff, collaborating organizations, international donors and agencies, U.S. Government agencies (i.e. USAID), host country governments and ministries and other relevant stakeholders;
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal and organizational skills;
• Proven ability to supervise and mentor staff from different cultures;
• Working knowledge of Microsoft software packages: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook;
• Fluency in Portuguese required. Excellent English language skills, both written and spoken with strong presentation skills, a plus.

Equal Opportunities

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children any form of abuse.

Health and Safety

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

HOW TO APPLY:

Interested candidates must submit the Certificate of Education, BI, CV, and the letter of motivation in Portuguese and English at the following addresses: Save the Children International, Save the Children International, Rua de Tchamba Nº398, Maputo or to the electronic address Email: recrutamento.moz@savethechildren.org, and Nampula Office-Save the Children, Rua de Sofala, nº-62, de Nacala-Porto cidade Alta, Rua 132, Talhão 278 or mozambiquenplrh.recrutamento@savethechildren.org until October 16^th , 2019.

“We are an equal opportunity employer, we encourage the candidacy of women. Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all its employees and programs are absolutely safe for children.

We apply strict procedures to ensure that only suitable candidates to work with children are allowed to join our organization and all candidates will therefore be subject to this scrutiny. ”

DISCLAIMER:

SAVE THE CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL DOES NOT CHARGE ANY KIND OF FEE AT WHICHEVER STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS AND DOES NOT ACT THROUGH RECRUITMENT AGENTS.

NB: Only the selected candidates will be contacted.