Nutrition Cluster Coordinator, P4, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Fixed Term #68166 (for non-Ethiopian nationals only)

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On behalf of the IASC Humanitarian Coordinator in Ethiopia and UNICEF Ethiopia Country Office as the lead agency for the IASC Nutrition Cluster and in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and the National Disaster Response Management Coordination Committee (NDRMCC), the incumbent will facilitate a timely and effective nutrition response at Federal and regional level and ensure that the capacity of national and local institutions is strengthened to respond to and coordinate emergency nutrition interventions that demonstrate results and impact achieved.

The Nutrition Cluster Coordinator is responsible for the leadership of the following:

• National level coordination with over 35 humanitarian and development partners comprising of UN agencies, international organizations, Donor agencies, International and National NGOs, and Government ministries.
• 9 sub-national coordination structures coordinating emergency nutrition response for 4.5 million children and women with an annual budget of about USD 250 million.
• Providing strategic guidance for a coherent and timely analysis of nutrition needs, crafting a robust strategic response plan, mobilizing resources, and effectively monitoring the situation and response in line with humanitarian principles.
• Representing the humanitarian nutrition partners in National Level Health and Nutrition partners forum, Multi-Agency Emergency Coordination Cell (ECC), and Donor coordination platforms.
• Leading intersectoral planning and coordination with Health, WASH, Food Security and Logistics clusters.
• Ensuring the emergency nutrition response follows global and national standards and technical guidance.
• Leading advocacy initiatives by timely identifying critical issues of strategic importance for effective and coherent emergency nutrition response to the need of the most vulnerable people.

MAJOR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Support service delivery

• Explore and identify appropriate new partners to engage in nutrition in emergencies (NiE) in Ethiopia and facilitate the active engagement of these agencies in the cluster at national and/or at sub national level, focusing on partners with capacity to conduct rapid assessments, nutrition surveys, analysis, etc.
• Regularly liaise with the Sub-national Cluster Focal Points (if applicable) to identify progress, gaps, bottlenecks, and challenges in implementation of nutrition surveys/assessments/analysis, communicate/feedback to the National Cluster and propose corrective actions (if needed).
• Support the Cluster Coordination team in organizing of and participating in regular cluster coordination meetings and information sharing in all crisis-affected states to ensure appropriate coordination between all nutrition humanitarian partners, including provision of inputs for the agenda and information and evidence to inform cluster partners discussions and facilitation of sessions related to surveys/assessments.
• Identify and liaise with FSL and other cluster’s partners to advocate for integration of nutrition rapid assessments/screening and nutrition indicators into their respective RAs, if feasible; propose corrective actions (if needed).
• Provide regular inputs from cluster partners for Nutrition cluster information management products, cluster bulletins, etc., including needs, gaps, supply pipeline updates, etc.

Informing strategic decision-making of the HC/HCT for the humanitarian response

• Coordinate and support cluster partners in inter-cluster initial rapid needs assessments (IRNA), multi-cluster initial rapid assessments (MIRA), humanitarian needs overview (HNO), IPC analysis, etc., by identifying the appropriate partner for the assessments/surveys, ensuring that all partners using agreed cluster tools and provide relevant inputs (survey plans, tools, identification of needs, gaps, etc) to the National Nutrition Cluster Coordination team.
• Support Sub-national Nutrition Cluster Focal points (MOH, UNICEF & NGOs) and nutrition partners in the states to participate in nutrition need assessments and response planning.
• Coordinate all planned nutrition assessment through the chair of NIWG (if applicable) by maintaining the database of all planned assessments and surveys.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other sectors to ensure nutrition assessments are conducted using standardized tools and methods.
• Coordinate with Nutrition Cluster IMO to ensure that cluster IM products related to surveys/assessments are up to date.
• Coordinate cluster partners’ and IMO to ensure that partners’ survey/assessment plans, methodologies are in line with cluster priorities and standards, identify existing gaps and propose corrective actions.
• Strengthen inter-cluster coordination at national and sub national level, particularly with Food Security & Livelihoods, WASH, Health and Education Clusters to facilitate a comprehensive approach to addressing the issue of nutrition in Ethiopia by regularly liaising with IM focal points on the clusters and ensuring information collected by them is used to inform nutrition situation analysis.
• Ensure representation of nutrition cluster in the Food Security & Livelihoods, WASH, Health and Education Clusters by regularly attending meeting.

Planning and implementing strategy:

• Coordinate and provide relevant inputs to the development and revision of the Flash Appeal/Humanitarian Response Plans. As a part of this process, ensure that gaps and duplications are identified and appropriately addressed.
• Ensure that all partners adhere to existing standards and guidelines.
• Clarify funding requirements, prioritization, and cluster contributions to HC’s overall humanitarian funding considerations (CRP/SRP, CHF, CERF, etc.).
• Ensure that OCHA identified priority inter-cluster and crosscutting issues, including gender, HIV and environment; are fully integrated into the nutrition cluster strategy and nutrition cluster partner projects, in line with IASC guidance and international best practices with specific focus on ensuring cross-cutting issues are addressed in nutrition survey plans, methodologies, etc.

Monitoring and evaluation of performance:

• Guide the work of the Information Management Officer to maintain a functional Nutrition Cluster Information Management system, which includes Monthly and Weekly Partner Reporting, Nutrition Partner database and 4W Matrixes, Capacity Mapping database, Repository of Nutrition Surveys and Cluster Website.
• Ensure regular monitoring of nutrition in emergencies activities and coordination against cluster indicators, including activity at operational level (quality, coverage, continuity and cost), and sub national and national level cluster coordination activities. Conduct analysis of best available information in order to benchmark progress of the emergency response over time.
• Liaise with cluster partners and provide technical support to the cluster IMO in identification of quality gaps in regular reporting to the cluster. Take corrective actions, if needed.
• Submit regular Cluster reports to OCHA and UNICEF in line with reporting requirements (monthly/quarterly).
• Work with the Cluster partners to establish a solid cluster monitoring system.

Build national capacity in preparedness and contingency planning

• Coordinate partners’ capacity development for implementation of nutrition in emergencies interventions by regularly conducting the capacity gap analysis.
• Liaise with the national nutrition cluster partners to ensure the capacity for NiE is enhanced based on the mapping and understanding of available capacity.
• Identify cluster partners who can build the capacity of cluster partners on nutrition assessments/analysis/surveys and advocate to them to cover the capacity gaps of other partners as per capacity mapping.
• Support efforts to strengthen the capacity of the Sub-National /local authorities and civil society on NiE.

Advocacy

• Identify core nutrition advocacy concerns, including resource requirements related to nutrition in emergencies, and contribute key messages to the broader advocacy initiatives of the HCT.

Accountability to affected population

• Be accountable to the affected population through effective and inclusive consultative and feedback mechanisms by ensuring that the target populations are aware how the needs for NiE programmes are identified, how the programme is targeted and how the population views around satisfaction and feedback could be collected.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in nutrition, public health, nutritional epidemiology, global/international health and nutrition, health/nutrition research, policy and/or management, health sciences, nutritional epidemiology, or another health-related science field.
  A minimum of eight [8] years of relevant professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: nutrition, public health, nutrition planning and management, or maternal, infant and child health/nutrition care.
• Experience in health/nutrition programme/project development, cluster coordination and/ or management in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

Core Values 

• Care
• Respect
• Integrity
• Trust
• Accountability

Behavioural Competencies

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (II)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (II)
• Works Collaboratively with others (II)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (II)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (II)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (II)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (II)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (II) 

Functional Competencies

• Leading and supervising – (II)
• Formulating strategies and concepts – (II)
• Analyzing – (II)
• Relating and networking – (II)
• Persuading and influencing – (II)
• Deciding and iniating action – (II)
• Applying Technical Expertise – (II)

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Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

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