Nutrition Officer (Resilience), P-2, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 364 days (for non-Ethiopian nationals only)

Contract

This is a P-2 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 2 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 92,834 USD and 126,092 USD.

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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, resilience

Ethiopia is situated in the Horn of Africa and is the second most populous country on the continent with an estimated population of 115 million. It borders six African countries: Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan, and covers 1,104,300 square kilometers. Approximately 85 percent of the population lives in rural areas. Ethiopia represents a melting pot of ancient cultures with Middle Eastern and African cultures evident in the religious, ethnic, and language composition of its people.

Over the past two years, children and their families across Ethiopia faced multiple and complex emergencies, such as the conflict in the northern Ethiopia and the drought, which resulted in millions of people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. UNICEF has programmes in Child Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Social Policy, and Education and serves over 15 million children in Ethiopia. Join UNICEF Ethiopia to contribute to improving the lives of children and women.

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How can you make a difference?

• Provision of technical support on the preparation, design, and updating of the situation analysis for the nutrition sector/s to ensure comprehensive and current data on maternal and child nutrition is available to guide policy development as well as design and management of nutrition programmes/projects, with special attention to fragile and emergency settings.
• Participation in strategic programme discussions on the planning of nutrition programmes/projects, with special attention to fragile and emergency settings
• Planning and/or collaboration with internal and external partners to establish monitoring benchmarks, performance indicators, and other UNICEF/UN system indicators and measurements to assess and strengthen performance accountability, coherence, and delivery of concrete and sustainable results for resilience in nutrition programmes.
• Participation in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews, and annual nutrition reviews with the government and other counterparts to assess progress and to determine required action and interventions to achieve results.
• Preparation and assessment of monitoring and evaluation reports to identify gaps, strengths, and/or weaknesses in programme management. Identify lessons learned and use the knowledge gained for development planning and timely intervention to achieve goals.
• Actively monitoring programmes and projects through field visits, surveys, and/or exchange of information with partners and stakeholders to assess progress, identify bottlenecks and potential problems, and take timely decisions to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant officials for timely resolution.
• Preparation of regular and mandated programme/project reports for management, donors, and partners to keep them informed of programme progress.
• Provision of technical support to field offices, NGO partners, UN system partners, and other partners/donors on policies, strategies, best practices, and approaches on nutrition-related issues to support programme development planning, management, implementation, and delivery of results.
• Ensuring weekly/monthly reporting from Field offices colleagues and third-party monitors on the open-data kit end-user monitoring dashboard/data to oversee the quality of nutrition service delivery across Ethiopia
• Identifying, building, and strengthening strategic partnerships with country stakeholders, regional and global partners, allies, donors, and academia, through active networking and effective communication to achieve programme goals on resilience and emergency preparedness and response.
• Ensure proper knowledge mobilization on innovations piloted within resilience-building programmes
• Design, development, and implementation of nutrition projects linked to the simplified approaches of the management of acute malnutrition and resilience building are delivered in a quality and timely manner.
• Required programme/project reports and presentations are timely prepared and shared with relevant stakeholders a required in compliance with the established guidelines and procedures.
• Other assigned duties and responsibilities are effectively accomplished.

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

• A first 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.
• A minimum of two years (2 years) of relevant professional experience in a developing country in one or more of the following areas is required: nutrition, nutrition planning and management, or maternal, infant, and child nutrition.
• Experience in emergencies and fragile contexts in developing countries is an asset for this position.
• Experience in resilience building for nutrition and knowledge generation/research is an asset.
• Experience in nutrition programme/project development in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of:

• Care
• Respect
• Integrity
• Trust
• Accountability
• Sustainability

(CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are:

• Builds and maintains partnerships (1)
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (1)
• Drive to achieve results for impact (1)
• Innovates and embraces change (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
• Thinks and acts strategically (1)
• Works collaboratively with others (1)

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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.

Remarks:

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

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