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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