Deployable Nutrition Specialist
Location: Globally flexible, Flexible
Company: Plan International
The Organisation
Plan International is an
independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s
rights and equality for girls.
We believe in the power
and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty,
violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.
Working together with
children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just
world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all
vulnerable children.
We support children’s
rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare
for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and
policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and
knowledge.
We have been building
powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active
in more than 80 countries.
Disasters and conflicts
threaten children’s rights and damage the societies they live in. Last year
alone, Plan International responded to 81 disasters globally to champion and
uphold the rights of children, particularly girls, before, during and after
emergencies.
To sustain its engagement
with children affected by crises, our Humanitarian team is currently recruiting
committed humanitarian experts to deploy 9 months of the year to various
emergency contexts. This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the
growth of our Core Surge team and to support children and their communities
around the world in building resilience to increasing disaster risks.
The Opportunity
Plan International implements food security, nutrition and livelihoods programmes in over 30 countries, supported by multiple donors and governments. The main focus is on emergency lifesaving interventions, with an increasing emphasis on recovery and capacity-strengthening interventions with a climate change adaptation lens. In response to the ongoing global food crisis, Plan International has been scaling up responses in food security, nutrition and livelihoods reaching the most affected communities. Integrated food security and nutrition is a key component of Plan International’s humanitarian work.
As a Deployable Nutrition
Specialist, you will provide technical leadership and support to the Country
Offices (COs) primarily on the nutrition analysis, design and implementation of
integrated nutrition and food security initiatives in our humanitarian
responses, support on capacity strengthening for Plan international
staff, lead review of impacts of the nutrition interventions, and support the
strengthening of Plan’s representation at the food security and nutrition
working groups and clusters. You will also support reporting and documentation
processes and policy influencing in relation to food security and nutrition at
Plan International.
The Requirements
- Demonstrable
experience working in a broad range of humanitarian crises in a number of
different contexts.
- Demonstrable
experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of integrated food
security and nutrition projects.
- Experience
in building and strengthening technical expertise on food security and
nutrition in humanitarian work
- Knowledge
of relevant international humanitarian standards, approaches (especially
integrated approaches), and codes of conduct.
- Proven
experience working in food security and livelihoods programming,
especially from a girls’ rights perspective in a variety of contexts
including acute & chronic food insecurity crisis
- Ability
to network effectively and build good working relationships with colleagues
both within Plan International as well as in peer agencies.
- Good
working knowledge of key humanitarian donors, for example, WFP, USAID,
DFAT, GAC, FCDO, and DGECHO amongst others.
- Knowledge
of major humanitarian, recovery and development challenges and issues,
specifically strategies for hunger and malnutrition reduction.
- Proven
representational and coordination skills
- Strong
analytical and report-writing skills
- Committed
to actively upholding Plan International’s vision, values and behaviours
and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.
Please follow this link
for a full role profile; Deployable Nutrition Specialist JD (Feb 2023).docx
Location: This role will be deployed
75% of the time to Plan International’s country programmes and home-based when
not deployed. This can be flexible where Plan International has an office* that
can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the pre-existing right to
work and live.
Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed term
contract available as per employing office’s standard terms and
conditions.
Reports to: Food Security
and Livelihoods Specialist
How to Apply
Closing Date: Sunday 5th
March
