• Application Deadline: Sun, 5 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Deployable Nutrition Specialist


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience


• Location Nigeria


• Job Field Medical / Healthcare  , NGO/Non-Profit 
  

As a Deployable Nutrition Specialist, you will provide technical leadership and support to the Country Offices (COs) primarily on the nutrition analysis, design and implementation of integrated nutrition and food security initiatives in our humanitarian responses, support on capacity strengthening for  Plan international staff, lead review of impacts of the nutrition interventions, and support the strengthening of Plan’s representation at the food security and nutrition working groups and clusters. You will also support reporting and documentation processes and policy influencing in relation to food security and nutrition at Plan International.

The Requirements

• Demonstrable experience working in a broad range of humanitarian crises in a number of different contexts.


• Demonstrable experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of integrated food security and nutrition projects.


• Experience in building and strengthening technical expertise on food security and nutrition in humanitarian work


• Knowledge of relevant international humanitarian standards, approaches (especially integrated approaches), and codes of conduct.


• Proven experience working in food security and livelihoods programming, especially from a girls’ rights perspective in a variety of contexts including acute & chronic food insecurity crisis


• Ability to network effectively and build good working relationships with colleagues both within Plan International as well as in peer agencies.


• Good working knowledge of key humanitarian donors, for example, WFP, USAID, DFAT, GAC, FCDO, and DGECHO amongst others.


• Knowledge of major humanitarian, recovery and development challenges and issues, specifically strategies for hunger and malnutrition reduction.


• Proven representational and coordination skills


• Strong analytical and report-writing skills


• Committed to actively upholding Plan International's vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.