Deputy Nutrition Cluster Coordinator

Contract

This is a UNV National Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Specialist contracts.

Non-Family Duty Station

Under the direct supervision of Nutrition Cluster Coordinator, the International UN Volunteer will carry out the following tasks: Service Delivery • Facilitate and coordinate implementation/monitoring of the sector response for IDPs, affected populations, and host communities across the country. • Support organizing regular sector meetings at the sub-national level and track/support technical working groups as necessary. • Represent partners engaged in sector response at sub-national coordination meetings. • Provide inputs for state-level or sector/cluster-level documents and plans. • Document ongoing and future coordination and technical support needs to improve overall response by cluster lead agency and Cluster partners. • Ensure that sector humanitarian responses build on local capacities; • Ensure appropriate links with local authorities, State institutions, local civil society and other relevant actors and ensure appropriate coordination and information exchange. • Support efforts to strengthen the sector capacity of the local authorities and civil society. • Facilitate and lead technical working groups – Infant and Young Child Feeding/ integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IYCF/ IMAM) Technical Working Group (TWG) and the Assessment and Information Management technical working group (AIM TWG)

Information Analysis for Decision Making and Advocacy • Identify issues that require advocacy and engagement by the NCC, donors and other stakeholders and contribute to key messages for advocacy by NCC or interagency as required. • Contribute to the development of a national and communications strategy. • Support determination of needs and review of projects for the Myanmar Humanitarian Fund (MHF), CERF etc. • Maintain regular communication and share relevant information, issues, updates to the national coordination team through NCC, UNICEF Chief of Field Office, and other relevant stakeholders and others as defined including a monthly progress report. • Representation of the sector/cluster in coordination forums (WASH, Health, Food Security etc.) and ensuring sector issues are kept on the agenda. Strategy Development • Tracking lessons learned and revise strategies and action plans accordingly. • Ensure effective links with other clusters/sectors (List out priority clusters/sectors to be engaged with); • Developing/updating agreed sector response strategies and action plans and ensuring that these are adequately reflected in the overall country strategies, such as the Humanitarian Response Plan, an integral component of the HPC process for 2024.

Monitor and Evaluate Performance • Conduct regular field visits to areas covered by the cluster/sector. • Monitor and follow interventions by cluster/sector partners, support improvements in programming and delivery of quality support to strengthen performance against the HNO/HRP. • Ensure regular activities remain on schedule, with quality assurance checks and capacity building interventions generated as needed. • Support the timely consolidation of monthly data and facilitate analysis of results and utilization for any programmatic adjustments/optimization, increased funding, services provision and issues relating to access. • Biweekly or monthly reports highlighting progress against plans (HRP) bringing ac-countability to the sector partners • Monthly analysis of programme performance including supply management and pipe-line updates where relevant leading to problem solving of supply management and pipeline blockages • Field trip reports with action points and follow up issues pertaining to strengthening co-ordination, highlighting specific technical response where relevant. • Provide roving support to sub-national clusters as needed and based on established gaps in sub-national cluster coordination.

Capacity Building in Preparedness and Contingency Planning • Promote emergency response actions while promoting and supporting considering a localization agenda in, recovery planning, prevention, and risk reduction concerns. • Maintain a capacity matrix for each township to reflect ongoing services and potential new providers flagging gaps as required. • Support preparedness planning and ensure this is incorporated into planning based on the associated risks around assignment/coverage.
• Support forecasting and maintenance of pre-positioned essential nutrition supplies to prevent the supply pipeline break - support re-positioning where necessary to avoid localized supply pipeline breaks.

Accountability to Affected Populations • Support cluster members to ensure utilization of participatory and community-based approaches in assessments, analysis, planning, monitoring and response. • Ensure cluster/sector partners are ensuring accountability to affected populations and providing and supporting Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) activities.

Interim multi-sector plan • Support linkages to multi-sectoral response needs. • Strengthen humanitarian development nexus.

☒ Accountability ,☒ Adaptability and Flexibility, ☒ Building Trust, ☒ Client Orientation, ☒ Commitment and Motivation, ☒ Commitment to Continuous Learning, ☒ Communication, ☒ Creativity, ☒ Empowering Others, ☒ Ethics and Values, ☒ Integrity, ☒ Judgement and Decision-making, ☒ Knowledge Sharing, ☒ Leadership,☒ Planning and Organizing, ☒ Professionalism, ☒ Respect for Diversity, ☒ Self-Management, ☒ Technological Awareness, ☒ Vision, ☒ Working in Teams

Nutrition and Health Programme management (in emergency context would be preferred)

• Experience Description: Capacity to work with different actors and partners in Food Security, Health, WASH and communicate effectively with people from different backgrounds to deliver results. • Adaptability to Myanmar work environments, or needs, and work priorities. • Demonstrated attention to details, ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work independently and cooperatively with team members is required. • Assessment, Survey, and Monitoring and Evaluation • Humanitarian Work experience relevant to the situation in Myanmar

Myanmar is second largest country in terms of land area after Indonesia in the South East Asia Region. It has population of over 54 million living across seven States and Seven Regions plus Union Territory, where all central government departments are located. On 1 February 2021, following the Myanmar Military took over a state of emergency was declared. Following the take over, the security situation in the country worsened, leading to a “Level 2” emergency designation and in keeping with the relevant protocols triggering the activation of cluster system to respond to the worsening humanitarian situation. Increased security measures due to the deteriorating security situation, has led to many-fold increase in internally displaced persons (IDP) to more than 1,703,900 from 328,000 before February 2021.

The country has since experienced a protracted humanitarian situation characterised by sub-optimal access to health services, increasing malnutrition due to deteriorating food security situation and worsening protection risks including risks to mine and other explosive remnants of war injuries. Apart from this, education services access has deteriorated, and the COVID-19 pandemic induced restrictions led to an almost continuous nationwide school closure from March 2020. The closures left over 12 million school aged children in Myanmar with limited access to materials for their learning and overall well-being, including education, mental health and psycho-social support and Covid-19 prevention materials. Following the military takeover in February 2021 the humanitarian crisis further worsened, and other dynamics such as an increasingly difficult economic situation continue, high inflation leading to reduced purchasing power of the local currency and access to markets. Generally, this disproportionately affected children and other vulnerable persons’ access to health, nutritious foods, protection, and education services. In this context, the humanitarian wide support needs to be strengthened and this includes Nutrition Cluster coordination, information management functions to monitor the humanitarian situation, evaluate response progress as per the humanitarian response plans targets and activities, promote advocacy and evidence-based program response. Therefore, the need to hire a deputy Nutrition Cluster coordinator will strengthen Nutrition Cluster functions at both national and sub-national level while promoting localization of the response.