Humanitarian Nutrition Adviser London £38k Full Time - 6 months (maternity cover) Below sets out some of the information but for the full description and the application can be found at: [url]https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/vacancy/62/description/[/url] Introduction Malnutrition is caused by a combination of factors which include a lack of access to food, ill health (through disease, illness and poor hygiene) and impaired infant and young child feeding and care practices. It can have short term consequences such as morbidity, mortality and disability, and long term consequences such as reduced adult size, intellectual ability, economic productivity, reproductive performance and chronic illness and as such malnutrition has implications not only on the individual but also for future generations. Save the Children’s Humanitarian Nutrition activities include rapid and casual assessments and surveys, surveillance and early warning and response options include Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E), Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) (encompassing severe and moderate acute malnutrition programming), micronutrient supplementation, nutrition education and blanket supplementary feeding. Nutrition outcomes are also sought from emergency food security programmes. Children’s Humanitarian Nutrition activities include rapid and casual assessments and surveys, surveillance and early warning and response options include Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E), Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) (encompassing severe and moderate acute malnutrition programming), micronutrient supplementation, nutrition education and blanket supplementary feeding. Nutrition outcomes are also sought from emergency food security programmes. Job Purpose The post holder will manage Nutrition Emergency Response Personnel and reporting to the Humanitarian Nutrition Senior Adviser will form our new Humanitarian Nutrition Team. The Humanitarian Nutrition team will play a central role in achieving our organisational nutrition and child survival breakthroughs working closely with the wider hunger reduction team. Criteria Essential • Significant experience and a track record of success in delivering high quality emergency response programmes in nutrition • Sound understanding of and commitment to Save the Children generic programme approaches and core standards in humanitarian response • Ability to travel at short notice, occasionally to remote and insecure locations for up to 30% of work time • Experience of team management. • Significant experience of organisational level thought leadership in a technical sector. • Experience of capacity building and mentoring. • Experience of working within budget constraints. • Highly developed writing skills (e.g. at level for producing an assessment report or proposal during a short time period) Please note we especially interested in hearing from French speaking candidates. Start date 19th August 2013.