Job: Nutrition Advisor, Islamabad

Location: Pakistan 
Description

Save the Children

Summary

Save the Children works in over 50 districts in Pakistan with approximately 2,500 staff and current expenditure of approximately $50 million each year.

We are looking for a Nutrition Advisor to ensure all nutrition programming is of excellent technical quality, attracts significant donor funding and contributes significantly to Save the Children's strategic objectives, national/global learning and advocacy. The Nutrition Advisor is expected to provide technical advice and support to project staff to ensure programming objectives are successfully achieved. He/she shall also contribute to the development and implementation of the country office nutrition strategy, closely linked to WASH and health programming. The Nutrition Advisor must be willing to embrace a child rights programming approach and represent Save the Children in national forums and working groups. He/she will support the overall country strategic intent to focus on risk reduction, adaptation and resiliency in light of a changing context in Pakistan.

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning and Program Development

• Lead development and implementation of the nutrition component of Pakistan's Newborn and Child Survival strategy and stand-alone nutrition strategy.
• Develop proposals for new programming that supports achievement of strategic and thematic objectives, specifically improving Newborn and Child Survival, Food Security, Resilience and Adaptation in Pakistan.
• Analyze donor priorities and positions on issues related to nutrition; identifying institutional funding opportunities and developing and maintaining contacts with potential donors, partners and key technical agencies.
• Ensure that program strategy supports and demonstrates good practice in child safeguarding.

Advocacy and Policy Development

• Clearly articulate nutrition advocacy messages for the Pakistan country office. Develop an advocacy plan (with timeline and key outcomes) with the Food, Security & Livelihood Advisor. Ensure implementation of nutrition advocacy strategy.
• Represent and advocate for Save the Children with UN agencies, donors, Pakistan Government, NGOs and others at the highest levels in both verbal and written communications to ensure Save the Children is seen as the lead international agency in terms of innovation and quality of implementation that focus on child survival, food security and resilience.
• Ensure active dissemination of program findings and lessons learned through production of high technical quality lessons learned documents and their effective dissemination to key stakeholders.

Program Quality

• Monitor and provide timely, relevant, accurate input on overall technical aspects of nutrition program work in Pakistan.
• Liaise with Program Operations department to ensure all nutrition and other program staff receives necessary and appropriate technical support.
• Assist in the development of tools for project staff and partners to improve the quality of nutrition work.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Ensure development of an M&E framework and key indicators for nutrition that helps each project improve quality of reporting, clearly articulate progress and impact of projects, identify issues for advocacy and new program/projects in the future.
• Participate in the design of baseline, mid-term and end of project evaluations for nutrition program or nutrition components of multi-sectoral program. Monitor the evaluation process and provide input and clarification as needed. Review evaluation findings and ensure that lessons and recommendations are captured in the Lessons Learned database.

Required

• Nutrition professional with a Masters Degree in nutrition or equivalent.
• Significant professional experience, at least 3 years, of working at a senior advisory level in nutrition for international NGOs.
• Proven representation and advocacy skills.
• Strong commitment to capacity building of national staff and partners with willingness to adopt a participatory and consultative approach.
• Experience with nutrition programming in humanitarian settings preferred.
• Experience writing donor funding proposals for large institutional grants in excess of US$1 million.
• Strong report writing skills, including experience in writing proposals and donor reports.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels, taking into account cultural and language difficulties.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets.
• Experience solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy-in.
• Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner.
• Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies.
• Ability to travel 30-40% of the time to Save the Children field locations.
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required.
• Working knowledge of Pakistani languages
• Commitment to Save the Children values, including willingness to abide by and enforce the Child Safeguarding policy.

Employee Type: Full time

Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries, including the United States. We aim to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives by improving their health, education and economic opportunities. Each year, we reach tens of millions of children in need in the United States and around the world. Join our dedicated and diverse staff in their work to improve the well-being of children everywhere.

Save the Children provides an attractive benefits package including competitive salaries, a matching retirement plan, health and welfare benefits, life insurance, an employee assistance program, generous time off and much more.

Save the Children provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.

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