Nutrition Specialist - NiE (P-3), PG - Nutrition and Child Development - New York HQ (Temporary Appointment 364days)

Overview

Provide technical support and improve systems for nutrition in emergencies globally.

You have:

• An Advanced degree (Master’s or higher) in public health, international development or related field is required.
• A minimum five (5) years of solid professional work experience in public health nutrition, humanitarian assistance and related fields is required.
• Direct experience in the design, implementation and monitoring of nutrition in emergencies interventions.
• Experience in providing context appropriate technical support both in person and remotely.
• Experience in capacity strengthening in nutrition in emergencies.
• Demonstrable experience in the nutrition cluster, particularly at the national or global level.
• Excellent writing and communication skills in English is required.
• Fluency in English and French or Spanish, knowledge of another UN language is an asset.

Contract

This is a P-3 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 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 131,084 USD and 171,644 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.

UNICEF Program Group is currently undergoing organizational changes; therefore, the exact location of the post has yet to be determined. Selected candidates may be required to commence duties remotely until the location is confirmed. If reassigned or relocated to New York, candidates may be expected to relocate to a new location again during the initial contract or assignment period. When working remotely, the candidate will be required to agree on working hours with the Hiring Office, which may require inclusion of all or some of the NYHQ core working hours (10AM-4PM).

The demands on UNICEF to respond to large scale crisis in all regions has never been greater. There is a trend towards increasingly complex crises, where conflict and climate threats exacerbate underlying vulnerabilities in health, water, food and other systems. The result is a greater number of countries experiencing protracted food and nutrition insecurity, and high levels of malnutrition in children and women.

While UNICEF has capacity in nutrition in emergencies in most countries and regions, the demands for technical support from countries and clusters – particularly support in-country, in the national working language – is far exceeding UNICEF’s current capacity to provide this support. Further, there is a need for UNICEF’s systems and approaches for nutrition in emergencies to adapt to an ever faster-moving humanitarian landscape – and this requires additional experienced capacity at the global level to analyse, create and test new approaches that enable UNICEF’s NiE systems to be more agile and effective.

For every child, Hope

Under the leadership of the Senior Nutrition Advisor and Nutrition Specialist for emergencies this role will provide significant support to improving UNICEF systems and approaches for NiE globally. This will entail supporting current essential functions for emergency focal points in HQ, while bringing new capacity for analysing and testing how systems can be improved and strengthened at all levels for nutrition in emergencies. In addition, this role will provide much needed technical and operational support – both remotely and via deployment - to priority humanitarian responses to support UNICEF Country Offices deliver on the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action.

This role will considerably expand the standing capacity in nutrition in emergencies in HQ and ROs to provide agile, responsive, and proactive technical support to UNICEF COs responding to a humanitarian crisis. The TA will work in coordination with the nutrition Emergency Response Team (ERT), the NiE team, the GNC Coordination Team, and the Technical Support Team of the GNC Technical Alliance.

How can you make a difference?

Lead high quality, proactive technical support to priority humanitarian countries.

• In coordination with EMOPs, the Global Nutrition Cluster and Regional Offices, provide direct, context appropriate technical support (remote and in person) to countries for nutrition in emergency activities (emergency preparedness, response and recovery).
• Enable systematic linkages between technical resources at HQ and RO, and country level needs, for example in nutrition information systems in emergencies and maternal nutrition.
• Identify capacity gaps and provide specific and contextual capacity strengthening support to address these; utilizing approaches including but not limited to mentoring, coaching, and training in all areas of nutrition in emergencies.
• Provide operational support including recruitment, proposal development, procurement and budgets as required by the CO.
• Participate in the monitoring and evaluation of the nutrition component of emergency responses (e.g. annual reporting on emergency preparedness and response, documentation of lessons learned and good practices, and strengthening the capacity of UNICEF monitoring systems to track emergency preparedness and response) as well as liaising with donors and contribute to knowledge management and communication to ensure that emergency responses are adequately resourced, and documented for future planning and strategy development.

Support strengthening of systems for more effective and efficient NiE preparedness and response.

• In coordination with the NiE team and consultation with relevant stakeholders, develop and test a standard operating procedure for ways of working for nutrition in emergencies between HQ, region, and CO at the onset of a L2 or L3 emergency. This SOP will include minimum actions for nutrition response teams to consider at the onset or critical juncture of a crisis.
• Lead on identification of opportunities to strengthen coordination and collaboration between nutrition, and UNICEF’s health, WASH and protection sectors at the global level.
• Work in close coordination with the Nutrition Information Systems in Emergencies Specialist to monitor the nutrition situation in priority countries and lead on identifying and executing priority actions in preparedness, response, and recovery. This includes but is not limited to supporting development of emergency preparedness and response plans for crisis countries and reviewing strategic response documents (Strategic Response Plans, Humanitarian Needs Overviews, Humanitarian Action for Children appeals) to contribute to effective and efficient emergency preparedness and response actions.
• Support country specific Emergency Management Team (EMT) and Technical Meetings by preparing nutrition inputs and following up on actions relevant to nutrition.
• Support the overall objectives of the Famine Task Team through scenario planning and preparedness with EMOPS
• Support global capacity strengthening initiatives for nutrition in emergencies.

Support technical developments in NiE

• In line with the revised CCCs, and in coordination with the GNC Technical Alliance, support and lead on initiatives to improve nutrition in emergencies technical capacity in areas including cash programming for nutrition outcomes, disaster risk reduction, and maternal, adolescent, and infant and young child nutrition in humanitarian settings.
• Support identification and implementation of operational research in nutrition in emergencies.

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

• An Advanced degree (Master’s or higher) in the area of public health, international development or social sciences or related field is required.
• A minimum five (5) years of solid professional work experience at the national and/or international levels in public health nutrition, public health, humanitarian assistance and development, health/nutrition research, policy and/or management, or other health related field is required.
• Direct, practical experience in the design, implementation and monitoring of nutrition in emergencies interventions.
• Experience in providing context appropriate technical support both in person and remotely.
• Experience in capacity strengthening in nutrition in emergencies for diverse audiences.
• Demonstrable experience in the nutrition cluster, at country or global level. Experience as a cluster coordinator an asset.
• Prior experience in nutrition program/project development and management in any UN system agency or organization is an asset.
• Demonstrated ability to work in difficult and complex environments, and effective management of diverse stakeholders.
• Excellent writing and communication skills in English is required.
• Fluency in English and French or Spanish (written and verbal) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

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• 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.
• For more information on remuneration and benefits, please visit UNICEF’s Entitlements’ page. If you would like to find estimates for entitlements, you may use the online Salary Estimate Calculator
• “UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”

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

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