World Concern Development
Organization (WCDO) is a Christian global relief and development agency whose
supporters’ faith compels them to extend opportunity and hope to people facing
the most profound human challenges of extreme poverty.
Position: Nutrition Project Manager
Job Purpose: To manage and coordinate the implementation,
monitoring and evaluation of nutrition interventions within World Concern’s
nutrition programme in Eil Fwayen District, including support for the
effective implementation of the Care Group Volunteer Model and other nutrition
programme activities to address the current situation (and any future)
nutrition in Somaliland.
The programme interventions need to
be planned in collaboration/consultation with the Programme Manager and the
Field Manager and Project Officers, relevant stakeholders including national,
county and local level health offices.
The post holder will also be
responsible for representing World Concern and coordinating with key
stakeholders in nutrition especially at the National level.
One of the key purposes of the job is
to build the capacity of the national staff.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Programme Development and Management
- Develop project concept notes, proposals and
budgets as needed, particularly building on lessons learned from programme
experience.
- Lead development of training module and IEC
materials to address the project requirements
- Lead the training of field staff in nutrition
and appropriate behaviour change practices
- Prepare timely and quality reports (both
narrative and financial) to fulfil internal (Country, Regional and HQ) and
external (Ministry, Donors and Cluster) requirements.
- Develop detailed implementation &
procurement plan and clearly outline the quantities and specification for
all required nutrition materials well in advance and liaise with the
logistics department to ensure details and timelines are well understood.
- Ensure gender and equality are adequately
addressed throughout project cycle management
- Together with the programme manager lead
development of nutrition successor proposal to roll out phase II of the
intervention
- Provide direction, guidance, assistance and
support to national programme staff as appropriate to carry out their
responsibilities, and ensure that they receive adequate professional
guidance and development opportunity
- Responsible for project donor liaison
Budget Management:
- Preparation and management of programme
budgets in line with donor and World Concern requirements
- Together with the Programme Manager, analyse
and ensure that project expenditures are compliant with the necessary
procedures, while promoting financial accountability
- Along with the programme manager, lead in
monthly financial review of the expenditures against the work plan and
suggest revisions as required
Staff Management and Development
- Manage staff performance through probation and
regular reviews
- Support recruitment, training, mentoring and
supervision of staff to ensure quality community mobilisation/ behavioural
change and other nutrition programme activities,
- Manage a team of nutrition staff including
capacity building to ensure sustainable management of the programme.
- Ensure effective training and mentoring of the
field manager and 3 Project Officers
- Participate in recruitment and management of
consultants as and when necessary.
Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation
- Liaise with the M&E Manager and lead
action centred formative research, the baseline / mini survey to benchmark
the project indicators, M&E framework/tools
- Liaise with the M&E Manager and ensure
that a strong monitoring system is in place and that programme data on key
nutrition indicators, performance of the Care Group Volunteers,
supervision mechanisms, programme coverage, community participation,
nutrition knowledge and practice, is collected, analysed, reviewed and
responded to regularly
- Adapt and improve the existing programme on an
ongoing basis, based on careful review of monitoring and evaluation
findings
- Ensure periodic assessments and analyses of
the nutrition situation in the programme area and flag any indication of
deteriorating nutrition situation using agreed early warning system.
- Undertake and/or manage regular nutrition
surveys being conducted as per the local and organisational requirements.
- Responsible for all project reports including
the monthly, quarterly and annual as well as the internal and government
updates
- Liaise with the Programme Manager and
undertake quarterly project reviews and ensure lessons learnt are
documented and acted upon
Representation, Coordination and
Liaison
- Ensure effective coordination with relevant
stakeholders especially the Ministry of Health, Nutrition Working Group /
Food Security Cluster
- In coordination with the other Project
Managers, Logistics and Administration Manager, liaise with relevant
stakeholders for successful programme implementation.
- Represent and actively participate in
appropriate National and district meetings/workshops and keep up-to-date
of key nutrition developments in Somaliland
Specific qualifications
- Post-graduate or degree in nutrition and/or
public health qualification with significant nutrition programming
experience
- Have worked with INGO for a minimum of 2 years
as a nutritionist with related technical qualifications especially in
health or nutrition
- Experience in managing behaviour change
communication related programmes
- Experience of nutrition interventions in
a post-conflict setting and transition to development oriented programming
- Experience in participatory development
preferred
- Fluent in English both written and oral with
experience in training using participatory adult learning methodologies.
- Female candidates are strongly encouraged to
apply.
- Regular user of Microsoft office especially
word, power point and excel
- Experience of designing, implementing and
analysing nutrition surveys, analyzing and interpreting data and writing
reports to a high technical standard.
- Experience in supervision, training and
mentoring of staff on nutrition / behaviour change communication
Interested candidates should submit
their applications and CV to worldconcernhr@wcdro.org not later than 15th,
October 2014.
Do not attach your certificates at
this point.