GOAL Job Description Job Title Junior Nutrition Advisor Job Location UK or Dublin with frequent travel overseas Reporting To Senior Nutrition Advisor / Head of Programmes Contract Length 1 year Start Date Immediate General Objectives of the Position: Be part of a team of nutritionists that provide GOAL with a technical resource to support nutrition strategy and approaches to improve program quality, efficiency and impact. Be part of a team to provide direction and support management on the nutrition aspects of GOAL’s emergency and recovery programs to ensure interventions effectively address nutrition needs. Under the guidance of the Senior Nutrition Advisor: • Help to improve the quality of overseas nutrition programming • Give direction to field staff so that projects are completed within set time frames and budgets are managed to an internationally acceptably high standard. • Provide support to GOAL staff on training and development in order to improve technical capacity across projects and within the organisation • Promote lesson learning and adaptation of new approaches to further enhance project delivery • Work with other members of GOAL’s technical team to ensure standardised monitoring and evaluation frameworks are promoted and integrated into projects, to improve quality, efficiency and impact of GOAL’s initiatives. Key Responsibilities: Working with at least one other Senior nutrition advisor: • Monitor FEWS NET, VAM reports and other early warning systems. • Participate in, or review reports on, emergency assessments and help to advise on whether GOAL’s response should include nutrition. • In coordination with the senior nutrition advisor, desk officers and GOALs health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods, water & sanitation-hygiene (WASH) and child survival Empowerment and Protection advisors, maintain an overview of global emergency/development programming and advise on nutrition inclusions where appropriate to encourage effective integrated and cohesive programming. • Participate in setting up of emergency nutrition programmes as required and provide continued support until replacement expatriate or national nutritionists can be recruited, requiring up to three months deployment. • Provide technical assistance on nutrition issues to Country Programs ensuring continuity and consistency of support throughout the project cycle. Technical assistance activities will include review of survey results, proposals and reports, input (where necessary) into strategic planning, and strengthening of program design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation. • Regular field visits to review and report on nutrition program progress, specifically in relation to their efficiency and effectiveness and determine any future program recommendations. Field visits and annual work plan will be planned and agreed with the Senior Nutrition advisor, Senior Programmes advisor and Operations manager. It is anticipated that 70% of this role will be field based, while the remaining time in the UK the nutrition advisor will support development of policy, evaluate proposals, draw up and review guidelines, support recruitment of nutrition staff. • Provide initial or refresher trainings for in-country nutrition staff (where appropriate) to ensure a quality level of service delivery is provided throughout the project cycle. • Liaise regularly with field teams to ensure that recommendations are followed up and executed according to suggested timeframes. • Provide support to HO desk officers in developing and managing relevant projects, building the capacity and experience of desk officers in nutrition work. • Stay abreast of current good practice and ensure this informs GOAL’s own thinking and programming. • Recommend guidance documents and program tools on policy and program issues related to nutrition in lieu of discussions with the Senior Nutrition Advisor. • Undertake project evaluations – identifying achievements and lessons learned from the projects and disseminate for use in future programming. • Support the recruitment, training and briefing of nutrition technical staff. • Represent GOAL in external sectorial networks (as appropriate) – facilitate the exchange of technical information and identify opportunities for cooperative work and joint ventures with other agencies. • Support GOAL management in maintaining effective collaboration with donors (USAID, EU, DFID, DCI and WFP) and specifically build relationships with nutrition focal points within donor organisations. This includes assisting in proposal development. Requirements: (educational, language, etc.) • B.Sc./M.Sc. or equivalent in Nutrition or related degree • Minimum 3 (three) years practical field experience in nutrition programmes including some experience of humanitarian assistance • Strong communication skills and ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams • Experience organising and managing nutrition assessments • Understanding of development and relief issues • Experience and skills in staff training and management • Assessment, analytical and planning skills • Proficient in preparation of proposals, reports and budgets, with good writing, communication and computer skills • Familiarity with dealing with donor and government offices in relation to development programs • Appreciation of the aims and objectives of GOAL • Assessment, analytical and planning skills • Fluent in written and spoken English, with French considered a non-essential but beneficial skill • Experience in field research (desirable) • Willingness to travel extensively This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. This is an unaccompanied position. Interviews will be held in Dublin or London. Unfortunately GOAL cannot contribute to financial costs incurred when attending interview. Note: GOAL is an equal opportunities employer GOAL has a Staff Code of Conduct and a Child Protection Policy which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants and children from exploitation. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to these policies any job offer made is also subject to police clearance. Apply via the following link: [url]http://www.candidatemanager.net/cm/Micro/JobDetails.aspx?&mid=YGTYD&sid=BEVGTAZ&jid=UDGTCXFCX&site=Goal[/url] Thank you.