International Medical Corps UK delivers lifesaving nutrition and health care in emergencies for people affected by disaster or conflict. No matter where, we are first there and we stay to help people survive and rebuild through the building blocks of recovery – nutrition, water, food, safety, medicine. Finally, we help people stand on their own by passing on skills and knowledge locally through training.
International Medical Corps UK works alongside International Medical Corps Worldwide, responding to humanitarian emergencies and communities afflicted by conflict, poverty and natural disaster in more than 30 countries.
Job Purpose
To provide nutrition technical assistance to the International Medical Corps’ missions; advocating with UK donors on behalf of IMC beneficiaries; and assisting in emergency response, nutrition
Assessments, program development, and new program start-up.
The Nutrition Advisor will provide technical support to International Medical Corps country teams in order to successfully design and implement high quality humanitarian nutrition programs including providing surge and desk support for new emergency nutrition programs and supporting emergency
preparedness and capacity building. Additionally the Nutrition Advisor will support the Nutrition and
Food Security and Livelihood units (NFSL) research activities, advocacy work and new initiatives.
1.Technical Program Support
· Provide technical support to countries with the design of nutrition programs.
· Ensure that the implementation of the nutrition programs conform to internationally accepted standards and country guidelines
· With the countries nutrition focal points, monitor program impact and ensure that program data is valid and relevant, and used to inform program development.
· Provide guidance to staff on the integration of a nutrition component into other sectors as appropriate
· Provide technical leadership and support for conducting nutrition surveys and assessments.
· Provide technical review of proposals and project reports prior to submission to donors.
· Participate in the development and expansion of International Medical Corps nutrition programming in emergencies and development.
To be successful in this job, an individual must be able to deliver each key result areas above regularly and satisfactory. Specific requirements include:
· Master’s degree in nutrition, public health nutrition, or related discipline
· Proven track record in implementation and management and provision of technical support to nutrition programs (including Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition; IYCF; etc) in humanitarian settings
· Prior experience in nutrition surveys (SMART, KAP, etc.)
· Experience of capacity building and mentoring
· Strong written and oral communications skills including the ability to write technical documents (assessments reports, proposals, briefs etc.)
· Ability to travel at short notice, occasionally to remote and difficult locations (30-50%)
· Ability to create solutions or responses to problems in an autonomous way
· Proficient in English and computer literate
· Team player
· Proven experience with donor relations
· Proficient in other in other languages eg French, Arabic, a plus
Location: London with international travel as and when required
Application deadline: 20 September 2015
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