The following position for a Senior Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor is open at Save the Children in London Please apply at: [url]http://www7.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_savethechildren02.asp?s=OxZwCHeRpGSxUuGpm&jobid=34026,5440566002&key=20139141&c=483654404672&pagestamp=sesgjlkrqvqyctkltu[/url] Closing date for applications is 19th December 2011. Job Title: Senior Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor Place of Work: Farringdon – with travel of up to 30% Grade: 3 Department: Humanitarian Technical Unit Reports to: Head of Humanitarian Technical Unit Line management responsibility: Yes Budget Responsibility: Yes Child Protection level: 2 Save the Children are recruiting an experienced Senior Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor for their London Office. The post holder will manage a Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor and Nutrition Emergency Response Personnel (ERPs) and together they 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. Job Purpose: To manage the development of humanitarian nutrition programming and capacity, ensuring the delivery of high quality, timely, accountable and appropriate humanitarian responses. Background: 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. The post holder will manage a Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor and Nutrition Emergency Response Personnel (ERPs) and together they 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. Job Purpose: To manage the development of humanitarian nutrition programming and capacity, ensuring the delivery of high quality, timely, accountable and appropriate humanitarian responses. Key accountabilities: Strategy & Team Leadership (20%): 1. To manage the humanitarian nutrition team, including developing and monitoring team work plans and budgets. 2. To maintain a strategic overview of nutrition related issues affecting children in humanitarian contexts, monitoring trends, the external environment and inputting to organisational strategy and planning processes. 3. To contribute to the development of Save the Children’s humanitarian strategy as formulated by the Humanitarian Department ensuring humanitarian nutrition issues are appropriately represented and detailed within it. Programme Support (40%): 4. In large emergencies, travel to the field at short notice to assess need, set up and manage new emergency nutrition programmes. 5. To conduct, guide or initiate assessments and design programmes in humanitarian contexts to generate funded nutrition responses; and provide technical assistance and conduct evaluations as appropriate. 6. To provide common frameworks, tools and guidance to country programmes to ensure high quality operations and advocacy in humanitarian nutrition programmes. Technical Capacity Building (10%): 7. Working with the wider Humanitarian Technical Unit, the Humanitarian Capacity Building Team and Save the Children International colleagues lead on the development of a humanitarian nutrition capacity building strategy. 8. To collaborate with the Humanitarian Human Resources team on the recruitment and management of Emergency Response Personnel (ERPs). Effectively manage deployment of ERPs, while supervising, mentoring and supporting their professional development. 9. Working with the HR team lead on the development and maintenance of a nutrition roster or database of consultants and short-term staff who could be deployed to humanitarian contexts. Programme Policy, Innovation & Learning (15%): 10. To monitor and evaluate programme quality in Save the Children’s humanitarian nutrition programmes, adherence to common frameworks (e.g. Sphere, Red Cross/NGO Code of Conduct) and to ensure that work is in line with Save the Children’s child rights programming approach. 11. Working with the Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Advisor, and nutrition colleagues across SCUK and SCI develop and implement effective monitoring, evaluation & learning tools and processes for humanitarian nutrition work. 12. Lead on the identification of best practice and develop programme policy relating to humanitarian nutrition work, ensuring that this is consistent with Save the Children’s overall policy framework and positions. 13. To coordinate effectively with the Hunger Reduction team and other Save the Children members on tools, frameworks, and other forms of technical assistance to achieve increasingly coherent support to country programmes from across the Save the Children International on humanitarian nutrition programming. Advocacy & Representation (15%): 14. Work collaboratively with the Nutrition Team, Humanitarian Policy Team, and Advocacy Division to ensure humanitarian nutrition work contributes towards both global programmes and advocacy organisational objectives. 15. To lead on specific areas of advocacy directly related to emergency nutrition programming, often using documented evidence generated from our programmes. 16. Play a leadership role within the relevant external bodies and organisations in the sector, including the Nutrition Cluster and the Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Core Group. 17. To play a leadership role in developing a Save the Children International Emergency Nutrition Technical Working Group. General 18. Comply with the requirements of SC UK’s child protection policies and other staff policies. 19. To perform such other tasks and responsibilities as may be required from time to time in order to ensure the smooth running of the team, the senior management team, cross departmental teams, the department and SC UK. PERSON SPECIFICATION Essential • Significant experience and a track record of success in delivering high quality humanitarian nutrition programmes • Sound understanding of and commitment to SC 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 – both at a programmatic level (assessment reports, proposals) and a policy level (policy papers, guidance notes). • Strong communications skills (both written and verbal) at a level appropriate for high level external representation (lobbying, presentations) and ability to tailor communications to different audiences • Understanding and practical experience of the cluster approach at country and global level. • Ability to work effectively across teams and departments • Ability to analyse diverse information and develop recommendations for an appropriate response • Commitment to SC UK’s mission, values and approach (includes child protection, equal opportunities and nutrition and safety). • A commitment to support for cross organisational initiatives • Commitment to team working and understanding of how to contribute • Ability to operate within a predominantly administratively self-servicing environment. • Computer literate. Desirable • An academic/professional qualification at post graduate level or equivalent in nutrition, development or a related subject. • Broad understanding of rights and development issues, international relations and the international humanitarian systems. • Existing networks of contacts in nutrition • Working knowledge of French and Spanish. Working contacts External: contacts in UN agencies, UK civil service, equivalents in NGOs, for negotiating, influencing, informing and advising. Internal: Wide range of contacts across all departments with staff at a range of levels including regular access to SMT level.