Save the Children’s origins lie in emergency response, and this has remained central to our work ever since. Our approach integrates our emergency and development work, through the medium of our country programmes. With the increasing frequency and severity of emergencies world-wide the organisation is increasing its capacity to support programmes in both sudden onset and chronic emergency situations. Our Emergency Response Personnel (ERP) play a key part with Save the Children’s humanitarian strategy. Members of the ERP scheme are active members of Save the Children’s UK’s humanitarian department, and contribute to organisational learning and help build organisation capacity to respond effectively to emergencies world-wide. Our Emergency Response Personnel are usually deployed for medium-term assignments for: An emergency response where Save the Children is scaling up and we need immediate emergency expertise. Surge capacity to a country programme by either filling a vacant position and/or adding further skills and experience to country programmes. Capacity building of individuals and/or country programmes to ensure that programmes are being run effectively About the role An ERP Nutrition Adviser will generally be deployed to the field as the lead technical adviser in a small or medium-sized emergency or the 2nd phase of large emergency. Alternatively they may be deployed as a field level technical coordinator in a complex, large-scale emergency. On occasion they may also be asked to gap fill a senior technical advisory role in a longer term humanitarian country programme. The ERP Nutrition Adviser will be expected to lead on sectoral assessment, programme design and master budgeting, coordination, and support fundraising, recruitment and procurement. In most circumstances, the post holder will be expected to mentor and/or capacity building existing country programme staff. About You You have significant experience of designing, setting up and implementing nutrition programmes, in humanitarian context, including during the first phase of an emergency and within institutional donors constraints. You have managed, coached and developed teams at the national level. You have also a proven experience in setting up monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. You have extensive experience of preparing successful funding proposals for donors (especially for ECHO and DFID) and are able to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports. You speak both French and English. Flexible, you are willing to be deployed up to 80% of the time. About the recruitment process Your application should be submitted in English What we offer in return Members on the ERP scheme will receive 35 days Annual Leave per year; medical insurance while on deployment; travel and accommodation provided for; based in home country; paid R&R; Gross salary paid from UK plus hardship allowance; complexity allowance and expensive posting allowance where applicable. Interested - please apply [url]https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/vacancy/emergency-response-personel--nutrition-adviser--francophone-wanted-1580/1606/description/[/url]
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