Coordinator Cluster Nutrition Nord Kivu

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UNICEF's core mission is to promote the rights of every child. The equity strategy, which focuses on the most disadvantaged children and families, reflects this commitment to children's rights. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have the opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential without discrimination, prejudice, or favouritism. To the extent that a child has an unequal chance in life in its social, political, economic, civic, and cultural dimensions - his or her rights are violated. It is increasingly clear that investing in the health, education, and protection of a society's most disadvantaged citizens, tackling inequity, will not only give all children the opportunity to fulfil their potential but will also lead to sustainable growth and stability of countries. Equity accelerates progress towards the realisation of the human rights of all children, which is UNICEF's universal mandate as set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while supporting the equitable development of nations.

Under the direct supervision of the Nutrition Specialist, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:  Provision of support services - Explore and identify suitable new partners to engage in nutrition in emergencies (NiE) in the provinces and facilitate the active engagement of these organizations within the group at the provincial level. - Regularly identify progress, gaps, bottlenecks and challenges in implementing nutrition status surveys/assessments/analyses, communicate/provide feedback to the national sector group and propose corrective actions. - Support the humanitarian coordination team at the provincial level (regional inter-cluster, local/regional inter-agency committee) by organizing regular nutrition cluster coordination meetings and sharing information with them to ensure appropriate coordination among all humanitarian partners on nutrition. - Identify and liaise with food security, health, water, hygiene and sanitation, education, cash working group, protection, etc. sectors. and other cluster partners to advocate for integration of activities. - Provide regular contributions from cluster partners to Nutrition cluster information management products, cluster bulletins, etc., including needs, gaps, supply stock up-dates, etc. - Inform the strategic decision-making process of the provincial humanitarian coordination of the humanitarian response. - Coordinate and support cluster partners in inter-cluster Rapid Needs Assessments, Multi-Cluster Initial Rapid Assessments, Humanitarian Needs Synthesis (HNO), IPC analysis, etc., identifying the appropriate partner for assessments/surveys, ensuring that all partners use agreed cluster tools. - Participate in nutritional needs assessments and response planning. - Coordinate all planned nutritional assessments by updating the database of all planned assessments and surveys. - Coordinate and collaborate with other sectors to ensure that nutritional assessments are conducted using standard tools and methods. - Ensure the coordination of the management of nutritional information. - Strengthen inter-cluster coordination at the provincial level, particularly with the Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH, Health and Education clusters, to facilitate a holistic approach to nutrition. - Ensure representation of the nutrition cluster in the Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH, Health and Education clusters by attending regular meetings.

 Planning and Implementation Strategy - Coordinate and provide relevant inputs to the development and revision of rapid response (flash appeal)/humanitarian response plans and ensure that gaps and duplications are identified and addressed appropriately. - Ensure that all partners adhere to existing standards and guidelines. - Clarify funding needs, prioritization, and contributions of cluster groups to overall humanitarian funding considerations (CHF, CERF, etc.). - Ensure that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has identified cross-cutting and cross-cutting priority issues, including gender, HIV and environment; Disability, gender-based violence are fully integrated into the strategy of the Nutrition Cluster and its partner projects, in line with international guidelines and best practices, with particular attention to ensuring that cross- cutting issues are addressed in plans, methodology, nutrition surveys, etc.

 Monitoring and evaluation of performance - Guide the work of the Information Management Officer to maintain a functional nutrition cluster information management system, which includes monthly and weekly partner reports, nutrition partner database and 4W matrices, capacity mapping data-base, nutrition survey repository and cluster website. - Ensure regular monitoring of the nutrition situation in emergency activities and coordination against indicators including activities at the operational level (quality, coverage, continuity, and cost) and cluster coordination activities at the provincial level. - Conduct an analysis of the best available information to measure the evolution of emergency response over time. - Liaise with cluster partners and provide technical support to the Cluster Nutrition Information System Thematic Group by identifying quality gaps in regular reporting to the cluster and take corrective action as required. - Submit regular reports from the sectoral groups to the members of the provincial cluster and the cluster at the national level in accordance with reporting requirements (monthly/quarterly). - Work with cluster partners to establish a robust nutrition surveillance system.

 Strengthening provincial capacity for emergency preparedness and programing - Coordinate partner capacity development for the implementation of nutrition interventions in emergencies by conducting regular capacity gap analysis. - Liaise with partners in the provincial theme groups of the nutrition cluster to ensure that the capacity of each actor in emergency nutrition is strengthened based on mapping and understanding of available capacities. - Identify cluster partners who can build their capacity for nutrition assessments/analyses/surveys and advocate for them to fill capacity gaps of other partners, in line with capacity mapping. - Support efforts to strengthen the capacity of provincial, territorial, and zonal authorities and civil society on nutrition in emergency.

 Advocacy - Identify core nutrition advocacy concerns, including nutrition-related resource needs in emergencies. - Deliver key messages to the provincial humanitarian coordination team and the nutrition cluster at the central level.

 Accountability to the affected population - Be accountable to the affected population through effective and inclusive consultation and feedback mechanisms by ensuring that target populations know how emergency nutrition program needs are identified, how the program is targeted, and how public views on satisfaction and feedback can be gathered.

 Integrity and professionalism;  Accountability;  Commitment to continuous learning;  Planning and organizing;  Teamwork and respect for diversity;  Communication;  Flexibility, adaptability;  Genuine commitment towards the principles of voluntary engagement, which includes solidarity, compassion, reciprocity and self-reliance; and commitment towards the UN core values.

in nutrition. - Experience in the mechanisms of nutrition coordination - Ability to adapt in a multicultural environment. - Ability to work under pressure. - Experience of working in an international environment would be an asset. - Good experience in the use of computers, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.).

UNICEF office in Goma has a staff of about 64 personnel, including permanent, fixed term, temporary staff, consultants, and volunteers. The office environment is friendly and promotes multicultural integration and learning. The DRC is a complex and challenging country and Eastern DRC in particular is a unique humanitarian operation. It provides for an interesting and enriching environment, but also requires a mature level of cultural awareness, as well as more stamina and commitment than elsewhere to make life comfortable and affordable. Therefore, flexibility and the ability and willingness to live and work in harsh and potentially hazardous conditions, involving physical hardship and little comfort, are essential. Eastern DRC Road infrastructure is poor and therefore air travel is necessary to get to many of the sites where UNICEF’s implementing partners operate. Mobile phones and cellular service are widely available. Internet is limited, but available in all UNICEF’s offices. Travel to field sites will be required where living conditions are basic. There are a number of health services available with several evacuation options for serious illnesses. There is reasonable access to most consumer goods. Goma is a non-family duty station in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The city has a relatively good infrastructure, from safe water, electricity, and sanitation to housing. Given recent security events related to M23 attacks in the region, it is imperative that all UN Volunteers familiarize themselves with the security guidelines and the situation upon arrival in the country. UN Volunteers should be aware that they are exposed to several tropical diseases. Yellow fever vaccination is mandatory for entry into DRC. Other non-mandatory by strongly advised vaccinations are hepatitis A, B and tetanus, which are available at the medical services in Goma. All UN Volunteers have 24-hour access to a medical services clinic.