Background:

ELEVATE Nutrition (Enhancing Local Efforts for Vital, Transformative, and Evidence-Based Nutrition), funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is a five-year cooperative agreement led by FHI 360 in collaboration with Action Against Hunger, Bixal, CNFA: Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture, GEMNet-Health, and Oxford Policy Management. The project aims to advance local implementation of high-quality nutrition programs and policies to improve the nutritional status of women and children, particularly in the first 1,000 days. ELEVATE Nutrition will drive efforts to sustain USAID technical leadership in nutrition, enhance locally driven nutrition programs and policies, and boost innovative efforts to share learning and transfer knowledge.

Job Summary:

The technical advisor will provide nutrition technical guidance, leadership, and support in multi-sectoral nutrition to ELEVATE Nutrition’s country portfolio and support the global technical portfolio, as needed. S/he should have a demonstrated technical understanding of and experience providing technical assistance to multi-sectoral nutrition programming. S/he will build and maintain collaborative relationships with USAID, local government counterparts, and FHI 360 country office counterparts. In collaboration with other ELEVATE technical and program staff, s/he will provide leadership for the technical aspects of country program design and start up and provide technical assistance and capacity strengthening to support program quality across the country programs. S/he will work with the capacity strengthening; monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning; and other technical teams to support ELEVATE Nutrition’s goal to advance evidence-based, local efforts for improving nutrition outcomes. S/he will also liaise with the knowledge management team to ensure that country learning is documented and shared. The technical advisor may supervise one or more staff members on the country programs team.

Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

Program Design and Implementation

• Work with USAID and country-based colleagues to develop, refine and/or clarify scopes of work at the country level; develop scopes of work for technical activities at the global level, as needed.
• Collaborate with USAID Missions, country stakeholders, and FHI360 country offices to develop initial country work plans and budgets and support country staff recruitment; support ELEVATE Nutrition’s country directors and country-based ELEVATE Nutrition teams to develop continuing work plans and budgets
• Contribute to project work plan, budgeting, and reporting
• Represent ELEVATE Nutrition to USAID, country stakeholders, government counterparts, global organizations and other relevant organizations, as needed

Technical Assistance and Program Quality

• Provide technical assistance to country teams to support program quality, including support to contextualize and adapt global guidance and best practices to specific country contexts, based on expertise within multi-sectoral nutrition
• Maintain continuous dialogue and exchange with country technical staff and serve as the key point of contact for technical assistance for multiple countries, coordinating technical support requests as needed
• Review and provide feedback on technical deliverables and reports, ensuring the products meet project standards
• Facilitate networking and collaboration across country programs and between global and country-based staff
• Lead or provide technical support to global technical activities in topics such as capacity strengthening, diet quality, wasting, social and behavior change, or governance, or support to other initiatives, such as the Global Nutrition Coordination Plan, as needed. This may include developing tools, documents, briefs, and other materials.

Sharing Knowledge and Learning

• Support ELEVATE Nutrition country teams on monitoring, reporting, research, and evaluation activities
• Work with ELEVATE Nutrition country counterparts and the knowledge management team to identify and document successful local advancements to contribute to global technical leadership; support country teams to draft publications and external technical and communication products

• Support documentation and dissemination of country-based learning and its inclusion in project learning activities

• Present on behalf of ELEVATE in webinars, professional meetings, conferences, and working groups.

• Support local nutrition leaders to participate in global nutrition events assisting with preparation, e.g., abstract, poster, and presentation development

Applied Knowledge & Skills:

• Demonstrated technical understanding of and experience providing technical assistance to multi-sectoral nutrition programming
• Experience with strengthening capacity of local organizations and staff members.
• Strong program management skills and experiences
• Ability to multi-task in fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality technical products
• Ability to work with technical teams across diverse contexts; demonstrated success providing technical assistance in complex environments
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Fluency in French, Spanish, or Portuguese desirable
• Willing to travel as required (25-30%)

Education:

• Master’s Degree in nutrition, public health, international development and/or related field

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience providing technical assistance in nutrition programming at global and/or country level
• Experience working in USAID-funded programs essential
• Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private organization in subject matter area of expertise

Typical Physical Demands:

• Typical office environment.
• Ability to spend long hours looking at computer screen and doing repetitive work on a keyboard.
• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
• Ability to lift/move up to 5 lbs.

Technology to be Used:

• Personal Computer/Laptop, Microsoft applications (i.e., Office 365, SharePoint, Skype/Zoom/Teams), cell phone/mobile technology, and standard office equipment.

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