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External Vacancy Announcement: Nutrition Specialist (Nutrition in Emergencies Sector/Cluster Coordinator), P3 based in Yangon, Post No. 115652

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, hope

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programs, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.

How can you make a difference?

On behalf of the IASC Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar and UNICEF as the lead agency for the IASC Nutrition in Emergencies (NiE) cluster, and in collaboration with the State Authorities, the main purpose of the Nutrition Cluster Coordinator post is to provide leadership and facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, coherent, strategic, and effective NiE response in Myanmar by a mobilized and adequately resourced groups of agencies, organizations, NGOs, local communities etc.

UNICEF Myanmar is also engaging in a new approach to cluster leadership with national and international NGOs taking responsibility for sub-national coordination. It will be the responsibility of the Nutrition Cluster Coordinator to support the sub-national level with frequent travel to the field to ensure all pillars of cluster coordination are addressed and engagement with relevant partner and government stakeholders is moving forward.

Key functions and accountabilities of the position (detailed job description attached): - JD 115652 Nutrition Specialist_Nutrition in Emergencies Cluster Coordinator P3 Yangon.pdf

The accountability and key end-results set out below are those of the NiE Cluster/Sector Lead Agency. It is the role of the NiE Cluster/Sector Coordinator to ensure these are attained through the combined efforts of him/herself, of the NiE Cluster/Sector Support Team (when provided) and of the NiE Country Sub-Cluster/Sector Group. The exact tasks and responsibilities will depend on the nature, size and scope of the emergency, as well as existing capacity of national government and the international community. In this respect they will include the following:

1. Inclusion of key humanitarian partners:

  • Ensure inclusion of key NiE humanitarian partners in a way that respects their mandates and programme priorities
  • Act as focal point for inquiries on the NiE Sector/Cluster’s response plans and operations.

2. Establishment and maintenance of appropriate humanitarian coordination mechanisms:

  • Ensure appropriate coordination between all NiE humanitarian partners (national and international NGOs, the International Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, etc), through establishment/maintenance of appropriate NiE Cluster/sector coordination mechanisms, including working groups at the national level
  • Ensure effective sub-cluster/sector coordination at the sub-national level in close coordination with national/international partner leadership.
  • Secure commitments from NiE humanitarian partners in responding to needs and filling gaps, ensuring an appropriate distribution of responsibilities within the NiE group;
  • Promote NiE emergency response actions while considering NiE prevention and DRR;
  • Ensure effective links with other clusters/sectors;
  • Ensure that NiE coordination mechanisms are adapted over time to reflect the capacities of local actors and the engagement of development partners;
  • Represent the interests of the NiE Cluster/Sector in discussions with the UNICEF Representative and other stakeholders on prioritization, resource mobilization and advocacy;
  • Maintain the Who, What, Where Information Management system

3. Coordination with national/local authorities, State institutions, local civil society and other actors:

  • Ensure appropriate links with national and local authorities, State institutions, local civil society and other relevant actors and ensure appropriate coordination and information exchange with them.

4. Participatory, conflict sensitive and community-based approaches:

  • Ensure utilization of participatory and community-based approaches.
  • Ensure all aspects of NiE cluster/sector functioning takes into account a conflict-sensitive approach based on an updated analysis of local dynamics

5. Attention to priority cross-cutting issues:

  • Ensure integration of agreed priority cross-cutting issues in NiE assessments, analysis, planning, monitoring and response (e.g. age, disability, diversity, environment, gender, and human rights);

6. Needs assessment and analysis:

  • Ensure effective and coherent NiE assessment and analysis, involving all relevant partners and demonstrating conflict sensitivity

7. Emergency preparedness:

  • Ensure adequate NiE related contingency planning and preparedness for potential significant changes in the nature of the emergency;
  • Promote and support training of NiE humanitarian personnel and capacity building of humanitarian partners around nutrition issues;
  • Support efforts to strengthen the NiE capacity of the national/local authorities and civil society.

8. Planning and strategy development: Ensure predictable NiE engagement on:

  • Nutrition assessment and analysis; adaptation of generic standard assessment formats;
  • Developing/updating agreed NiE response strategies and action plans and ensuring that these are adequately reflected in the overall country strategies, such as the Humanitarian Response Plan.
  • Tracking lessons learned and revise strategies and action plans accordingly;

9. Application of standards:

  • Ensure that NiE cluster/sector participants are aware of relevant policy guidelines, technical standards and relevant commitments;
  • Ensure NiE standards include the latest learning and knowledge on conflict sensitive programming

10. Monitoring and reporting:

  • Ensure adequate monitoring mechanisms are in place (with OCHA support) to review impact of NiE interventions and progress against implementation plans. This specifically needs to include an interpretation of best available information in order to benchmark progress of the emergency response through indicators such as quantity, quality, coverage, continuity and cost and target population data including desegregation by sex, age etc...) of service delivery.
  • Ensure adequate NiE impact reporting and effective information sharing (with OCHA support) to demonstrate the closing of gaps

11. Advocacy and resource mobilization:

  • Identify core NiE advocacy concerns, including resource requirements, and contribute key messages to broader advocacy initiatives;
  • Work with the cluster/sector to seek creative solutions for issues that require long term advocacy
  • Advocate for donors to fund NiE actors to carry out priority activities

12. Provision of assistance or services as a last resort: Where critical gaps in addressing NiE priorities are identified the NiE Cluster/sector Coordinator will:

  • Lobby for implementing humanitarian partners to address the gaps.
  • Advocate for the adequate provision of resources and safe access.
  • If persistent gaps remain, work with the UNICEF Representative to take action to fill the critical gaps through direct implementation action.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:

  • An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: nutrition, public health, nutritional epidemiology, global/international health and nutrition, health/nutrition research, policy and/or management, health sciences, nutritional epidemiology, or another health-related science field.
  • Minimum of five years direct nutrition experience, with at least two of which would be based in the field at a programme management level.
  • A minimum of 2 years’ experience of responding to emergencies.
  • A minimum of 2 years’ experience as nutrition/health cluster/sector coordinator.
  • Experience with either the UN and/or an NGO is an asset.
  • Experience in health/nutrition programme/project development and management in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
  • Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability (CRITA) and

core competencies in the following:

  • Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
  • Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
  • Works Collaboratively with others (2)
  • Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
  • Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
  • Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
  • Drives to achieve impactful results (2)
  • Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

The Functional Competencies required for this post are:

  • Analyzing (3)
  • Deciding and Initiating action (2)
  • Applying technical expertise (3)

Technical Knowledge:

a) Common Technical Requirements

  • Knowledge of humanitarian reform principles, international humanitarian law, reform pillars & reform updates
  • Knowledge of the Cluster approach guidelines and Terms of Reference and knowledge of how to apply them
  • Knowledge of cluster participants their mandates, capacities, attitudes, limitations, and how to integrate them into the cluster approach
  • Ability to mitigate and mediate conflict and disagreements among cluster partners

b) Function-Specific (Technical) Requirements

  • Ability to use and adapt cluster/sector coordination tools (e.g. stakeholder mapping, CERF, HPC, Flash Appeals, IM tools, contingency planning).
  • Knowledge of NiE sector as a whole and its priority issues; an ability to strategize how these sectoral needs are met through collective delivery.
  • Ensure that the role, responsibilities and functional linkages among the Cluster support team (where applicable) are clear and well-coordinated

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

UNICEF is a workplace that welcomes diversity and equal opportunities. If you require any reasonable accommodation for your test, please let us know two days ahead of the test.

UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

The hardship classification and the family status of UNICEF duty stations are subject to periodic review by the International Civil Service Commission. Please be advised that this duty station, in particular, may be subject to change in its hardship classification or security circumstances including family/non-family duty station status during the selection process or immediately following the assumption of duty. Such change may happen at short notice. As of 1 July 2021, Yangon was declared as a non-family duty station.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advanced to the next stage of the selection process.

Added 2 years ago - Updated 2 years ago - Source: unicef.org