Position Title: Nutrition Specialist, P-3, Kigali, Rwanda
Vacancy No: E-VN-2014-000609
Duty Station: Kigali
Country: Rwanda
Region: ESARO
Job Level: P-3
Position#: 00087832
Contract Type: Long-term Staff (FT)
Background Information:
For 60 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Purpose of the Position
Under the guidance of the Nutrition Specialist (L-4), contribute to multisectoral coordination of the formulation, design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of nutrition programme funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom on the Netherlands while ensuring overall mainstreaming of key features across all related sectors of the country programme, efficiency and effectiveness of the programme management, delivery and accomplishment of programme goals and objectives.
Key Expected Results
1. Timely sectoral analysis, input, support and collaboration to the Situation Analysis and its periodic update made for effective project coordination, planning, development and management.
2. Knowledge management effectively promoted through drafting/finalizing key nutrition sectoral programme documents and reports, sharing good practice, lessons learned, and ensuring knowledge/information exchange.
3. Quality of rights-based, gender-sensitive nutrition programmes effectively promoted, and coherence, synergy and value added to programme management process through results-based management.
4. Sectoral work plan and activities formulated, implemented and monitored, ensuring alignment with the defined programme strategies and approaches, with special attention to gender/geographic/sex disaggregated data or relevant indicators.
5. Programme delivery, evaluation and reporting carried out efficiently, rigorously and transparently in compliance with the established guidelines and procedures.
6. UNICEF`s global goals effectively promoted through advocacy and policy dialogue in the nutrition and other relevant sectors.
7. Proper and timely UNICEF and Government accountability ensured regarding supply and non-supply assistance as well as disbursement of programme funds for the nutrition sector.
8. Effective communication and networking achieved through partnership and collaboration, ensuring that gender-specific feature and requite issues are highlighted.
Qualifications of Successful Candidate
- Advanced University degree in one of the following disciplines: Public Health & Nutrition, International Health & Nutrition, Family Health & Nutrition, Nutritional Epidemiology, Health & Nutrition Education, Health & Nutrition Promotion and Disease Prevention, Public Health, Health Emergency Preparedness, or other relevant discipline(s).
- Training in gender and in nutrition programmes that promote gender equality an asset.
- Five years of relevant professional field work experience in designing, developing, planning and implementing multi sectoral nutrition programs essential.
- Experience in monitoring gender inequalities and in programming interventions that reduce these inequalities an asset.
- Experience in training with regards to inter-disciplinary approach to nutrition (public health nutrition, epidemiology, child growth and development, nutrition and agriculture, nutrition and HIV, etc.) is an asset.
- Knowledge of UNICEF policies, strategies, guidelines, rules and regulations on subject matters is desirable.
- Knowledge of UNICEF global, national, and regional nutrition policies and strategies is an asset.
- Fluency in English is required and knowledge of French is an asset. Knowledge of the local working language of the duty station would be an asset.
Competencies of Successful Candidate
- Communicates effectively to varied audiences, including during formal public speaking.
- Able to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment.
- Sets high standards for quality of work and consistently achieves project goals.
- Has good leadership and supervisory skills; co-ordinates group activities, ensuring that roles within the team are clear.
- Translates strategic direction into plans and objectives.
- Analyzes and integrates diverse and complex quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources.
- Quickly builds rapport with individuals and groups; maintains an effective network of individuals across organizational departments.
- Identifies urgent and potentially difficult decisions and acts on them promptly; initiates and generates team- and department-wide activities.
- Demonstrates, applies and shares expert technical knowledge across the organization.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.
Application Close: 28-Mar-14
How to Apply:
If you are qualified and interested in discussing this engagement in more detail,
please submit your resume in confidence to the website on the link below:
https://careers.unicef.org/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9NTMyMTFCODFDRDQ3MDU0MkUxMDAwMDAwOUU3MTBGMEYmY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%3d%3d&sap-client=100&sap-language=EN&sap-accessibility=X
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