Key Responsibilities:
Programmatic and technical
support for nutrition programming
- Provide technical guidance in development
and roll out of Nutrition Technical Approaches and Programs for greater
impact
- Coordinate development, dissemination and
roll out of nutrition guidelines in line with global, national and WVI
standards.
- Provide technical and programmatic
leadership to the implementation of nutrition interventions and
integration with other technical programmes including emergency response.
- Design and deliver realistic and
pragmatic Nutrition strategies and programming interventions that will
lead to positive Nutrition outcomes.
- Give technical guidance to WVK Nutrition
consortiums and Partners on Nutrition integration to multisectoral grants.
- Provide strategic oversight to
implementation of Nutrition within the organization and work across
sectors and platforms internally and externally
- Support the dissemination and roll out of
global and National Nutrition Policies and Strategies to Nutrition staff
in the organization
- Provide technical support Disaster
Management on Nutrition in Emergencies, working with partners in the
Emergency Nutrition Advisory Committees.
- Provide technical support to the Ministry
of Health during seasonal assessments and Nutrition surveys.
- Ensure comprehensive induction of
nutrition project staff to new projects including models/strategies of
implementation, budgets and donor rules and regulations
- Ensure grant startup workshops are
conducted and all staff implementing the grants understand the project
Nutrition Program Development and Nutrition Grants Acquisition
- Support Resource Acquisition and
Management (RAM) team to establish Nutrition donor links and pre-position
for upcoming Nutrition Grants.
- Work with RAM to Design and develop
nutrition grants concepts and proposals for World Vision Kenya.
- Work with RAM to Identify and conduct due
diligence for World Vision Nutrition consortium partners.
- In collaboration with Grants Acquisition
and Management, guide formative research for prepositioned grants.
Strategic Engagement, networking
and Advocacy
- Establish and maintain strategic
engagements and collaborations to preposition WVK in Nutrition for
enhanced funding reaching the most vulnerable children
- Plan, Organize and participate for
Nutrition donor monitoring visits to WVK National office and field
operation areas.
- Plan, Coordinate and support WVK
participation and support to key national and international Nutrition
related days.
- Ensure WVK representation and technical
support in key strategic Nutrition Technical Working Groups
- Work collaboratively with the Nutrition
Team, Advocacy and Communication Team to ensure humanitarian work and
response.
- Represent the organisation in Key Donor
meetings and other forums where necessary to ensure World Vision
prepositioning.
- Represent WVK in World Vision
International community of practice like CMAM implementers, PD Hearth
implementors, World Vision Nutrition Network.
- Work collaboratively with the Kenya SUN
movement and Nutrition Advocacy Team to advocate for Nutrition policy
implementation at National and County level.
Capacity Building and Team
Management for effective implementation for Nutrition Programs
- Determine opportunities to increase
capacity for Nutrition staff across World Vision Kenya programmes and
ensure the capacity building being undertaken meets competencies and
focuses on best Nutrition practices.
- Ensure Nutrition team is trained and
mentored on core aspects such as project management, implementation and
reporting.
- Lead development and implementation of
training guidance for Nutrition implementation Models for program team and
partners.
- In Collaboration with P&C department,
recruit competent Nutrition staff
Quality assurance for
programmatic Designs, Assessments, Monitoring and Evaluation processes
- Provide guidance to Nutrition Managers on
timely and quality project reporting in line with World Vision and
donor(s) guidelines
- In collaboration with MEAL department
Provide technical support for Nutrition Programme Research, Assessments
Monitoring and Evaluations, in line with global and national guidelines.
- Organise and conduct technical reviews
for Nutrition projects.
- Conduct Nutrition program monitoring
through field visits and virtual catch ups to ensure that the Nutrition
program is well implemented according to WV strategy, donor guidelines and
global Nutrition standards.
- Guide Nutrition evaluations and Surveys
including TPs, Grants and work with DMEAL team to prequalify competent
nutrition Consultants.
- Advise on Nutrition priorities for the
Country and specific County interventions while considering the nutrition
status and county priorities stipulated in the County Nutrition Action
Plans and National Nutrition Action Plan.
Others
- Any other duty as assigned by the
Supervisor.
- Participate and contribute in committees
and task forces as nominated/selected
Knowledge/Qualifications for the role:
- Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition or its
equivalent with extensive programming experience in nutrition programming
- Relevant Post graduate qualification(s)
will be an added advantage
- MUST be registered with the Kenya
Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute.
- Minimum of 6 years of technical
experience in a development organization covering all aspects of nutrition
technical program design, technical standards, systems, processes,
policies and guidelines development.
- Demonstrated track record in proposal
development, funding acquisitions and grant management for major donors
preferred.
- Proven track record in engaging with
government ministries and other stakeholders
- Strong budgetary and financial management
skills.
- Good interpersonal, organizational and
management skills
- Ability to build capacity of staff on
relevant technical fields
- Significant experience working with other
NGOs and UN agency is an added advantage
- Experience working within the health
system in Kenya
- Demonstrated ability to work in
collaboration with National and County Governments Departments
- Excellent planning, representational and
interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication
skills.
- Ability to work independently and in a
team and to lead teams
- Good analytical skills with appropriate
attention to detail.
- Ability to work under minimum
supervision.
- Computer literacy in MS office Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Experience working in multicultural
multi-location, values driven teams.
- Experience in working on donor funded
programs
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