Senior Advisor, Emergency Nutrition (P4) At Save the Children – US

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Summary

The Senior Advisor for Emergency Nutrition will provide institutional, technical and strategic guidance and support to Save the Children’s (SC) global work in emergency nutrition. You will work closely with colleagues across the Save the Children global movement to provide technical leadership to design state-of-the-art nutrition programs, provide technical assistance and first response to humanitarian needs, promoting high quality emergency nutrition programming globally, and to define and advance Save the Children’s global nutrition agenda.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Technical Leadership and Support in Emergency Nutrition (50%)

• Provide senior level technical expertise and oversight to support evidence-based emergency nutrition interventions.
• Deploy to Category 1 and 2 emergencies, as needed, to lead emergency nutrition responses (including leading rapid assessments and surveys, devising response plans and master budgets, mobilizing resources, and overseeing program implementation, recruitment and procurement).
• Backstop Category 1 and 2 humanitarian crises, reviewing response strategies and sector program plans, and supporting recruitment, advocacy/communications/media strategies.
• Work with SCI country offices to strengthen capacity to design and deliver quality programming through mentorship, trainings, technical workshops, and circulation of evidence-based program standards, guidance, tools and learning.
• Collaborate with nutrition colleagues across Save the Children to ensure emergency nutrition activities are consistent with global and national guidance, and country strategic plans.

Program Learning and Innovation (40%)

• Articulate key program innovation and learning priorities in humanitarian nutrition, especially related to key gaps in the evidence base for programming, and the steps needed to inform policy, and translate policy into practice.
• Lead the design, testing, and evaluation of innovations in emergency nutrition programming, specifically in areas including the Prevention and Management of Wasting and Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies.
• Identify, document and promote the up-take of innovative, field-based emergency nutrition best practices.
• Share SC best practices externally and introduce new evidence-based best practices into SC global and country level work.
• Support monitoring and evaluation, with a focus on sound data collection, analysis, and interpretation for improving the quality of humanitarian response.

Resource Mobilization (5%)

• Support resource mobilization by providing technical support to the development of fundraising priorities and quality emergency nutrition project proposals.
• Develop and sustain donor and partner relationships, including with academic institutions and technical personnel.

Humanitarian Coordination (5%)

• Participate in internal and external humanitarian and nutrition-focused coordination fora and contribute to strengthening global partnerships.
• Contribute significantly to the review and/or development of humanitarian technical standards, standard operating procedures, program policies and tools for emergency nutrition.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience
• Experience and knowledge in a variety of emergency nutrition programming areas required (i.e., prevention and management of wasting, emergency nutrition monitoring and evaluation approaches, IYCF-E, nutrition cluster coordination, emergency response)
• Proven experience leading multi-functional teams or projects and facilitating dialogue and communications across diverse sectors, institutions, and geographic administrative levels
• Ability to assess priorities and competently complete a variety of activities with a high level of accuracy and timeliness
• Critical thinking, ability to define situations, document data, and draw conclusions
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Excellent visual presentation and training skills
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
• Willingness to travel approximately 35% of the time; willingness and ability to work in insecure and hardship environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Written and oral fluency in at least one other language preferred (i.e., French, Arabic and/or Spanish)
• Proven experience leading multi-functional teams or projects and facilitating dialogue and communications across diverse sectors, institutions, and geographic administrative levels

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, pet insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

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About Save the Children

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