ADVERTISEMENT: NUTRITION LEAD / SAVE THE CHILDREN TEAM LEAD
ROLE PURPOSE
Save the Children is seeking Nutrition Lead for a 5-year USAID Feed the Future Kenya Food Systems Activity (KFS). The five-year Feed the Future Kenya Food Systems (LFS) activity will promote inclusive agriculture-led growth, strengthen the resilience of people and systems, improve nutrition and diet diversity of women and children, as well as integrate cross-cutting themes in Kenya’s North, West and Southeast. The role of Save the Children in this activity will be to identify market-systems approaches in delivering nutrition messaging, diet diversity practices and Social Behaviour Change Campaigns and to lead multi-sectoral nutrition advocacy with relevant Ministries and departments at national and county levels. The expected impact of this programme is “increased capacity of at risk and climate vulnerable households and communities to anticipate, adapt to, and absorb the impact of shocks and stresses induced by climate change.
As part of the KFS Technical Integration Team, the Nutrition Leader will ensure overall management and oversight of the programme objectives assigned to Save the Children including Overseeing the contracts management and implementation, risk management, financial accountability, donor reporting, external representation, relationship management with consortium members and government counterparts. S/he will be responsible to provide direction and support to the team, and technical leadership to ensure high quality programming to achieve programme results. The Nutrition Lead will also ensure compliance with SC and USAID Feed the Future’s policies and procedures. This position is based in Nairobi KFS office, with frequent travel to programme areas.
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
- Provide technical leadership in nutrition related programming within the KFS activity in collaboration with other technical team, and partners, in an integrated manner in the context of the zones of interest.
- Oversee the collaborative and proactive support to ZOI counties in the development and implementation of nutrition strategies, monitoring and evaluation and facilitating reporting on progress including promoting the dissemination of lessons learned and good practices.
- Drive the team members' collaboration with other clusters and programmes to ensure that NUT interventions are integrated in strategies on universal health coverage, primary health care.
- Provide overall leadership on planning, design and implementation of the SC’s overall assigned programme objectives with respect to the donor agreement, Save the Children quality standards.
- Ensure the timely completion of high-quality deliverables, according to agree upon work plans.
- Ensure compliance with donor and SC regulations, particularly with respect to financial and contract management, budget and expenditure monitoring.
- Provide line management to staff in accordance with the SC policies and procedures.
- Maintain strong working relationships and communication with TNS, other consortium members, negotiating scopes of work, addressing requisite revisions in programme work, and addressing issues that may arise.
- Maintain strong coordination with relevant I/NGOs, UN agencies, multilateral/bilateral agencies, county governments and private contractors implementing similar programmes, ensure complementarities and to avoid duplications of efforts.
- Ensure adherence to agreed programme quality standards including M&E guidelines, value for money (VFM), gender/inclusion frameworks and provide technical support to embed M&E and accountability in consortium implementation, in compliance with KFS activity and SC procedures.
- Ensure leadership in safeguarding and the implementation of safeguarding policies.
- Analyse the potential risks related to the program implementation and devise/implement mitigation measures.
Contract Duration: 24 months
Number of Vacancies: 1
Work Location: Nairobi
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Master’s degree and minimum of 10 years of experience in the management of nutrition and food systems and programmes, requiring multiple stakeholder engagement.
- Previous experience leading the nutrition component on a large, complex USAID-funded program, preferably on Resilience Food Security Activity within the Kenyan context.
- Proven track record in providing nutrition technical leadership/support to decentralized governmental structures and demonstrated expertise in coordinating with Governments, other partners.
- Project management experience at senior level as Team Leader with reputable international NGOs, preferably on USAID-funded large consortia programmes.
- Thorough understanding of gender/equality, protection and conflict mitigation issues.
- Strong management skills and the ability to manage projects and teams with remote offices or team members
- Excellent written and spoken English languages skills along with strong analytical, interpersonal communications and organization skills.
- Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support.
THE ORGANIZATION
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
HOW TO APPLY
Please apply in English saving your CV and covering letter as a single document, including your salary expectations for this role. To see a full a job description, please visit our website at www.savethechildren.net/jobs
We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse. Employment is subject to our Child protection standards including background checks and adherence to our Child Safeguarding Policy.
Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best-qualified talent.
Female Candidates are encouraged to apply.
Disclaimer:
Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process, nor request for medical examination or records and does not act through recruitment agents whatsoever.