Title/Position: Nutrition Surveillance Program Manager Location: Pakistan Department: Field Employment Type: Contracted Min. Experience: Mid Level Status: Open Description Duration: 4 months Location: Islamabad with 75% field visits General Objectives: The Nutrition Surveillance Program Manager (PM) is in charge of planning, designing, conducting, analyzing and reporting on surveillance activities. The technical coordination and ACF HQ must validate all survey or study reports if an external dissemination is planned before external dissemination. The Surveillance PM is directly managed by the Nutrition Coordinator (NUT CO) and liaises with the Field Coordinator (FieldCo) and Head of Base (HoB) for general coordination and support. Security measures and protocols set by the FieldCo and/or HoB must be followed by the PM at all times during in the specific Province/area. NOTE: The Nutrition Surveillance PM may need to make field visits of long duration. At those times they will be line managed on a day-to-day basis by the Field Coordinator and the NUT Co will act as a technical referent for surveillance issues and objectives support. Specific Objectives: Objective 1: To provide technical support to the departments in order to perform assessments and surveys when needed/asked by the technical departments: * Identification and design of surveys activities according to needs and capacities. * Encouraging and facilitating an integrated approach to surveillance. * Collection of background and general information. The PM is in charge of the scientific quality of the research. S/he will organize for the field officers access to books, reports, key informants interviews, local authorities, etc, according to the needs of the research. * Survey design: initial planning, to select the tools and methods, the type of informants and/or sampling, selection of villages for field work, writing guidelines and set up time frame, working days needed, budget and logistics planning and any special tools and equipment needed (GPS, map, camera…). * Secondary data collection in the field. Visual information, mapping, drawing, pictures, description, according to the needs of the survey. The PM should be familiar with tools such as GPS, digital camera, basic mapping and drawing. * Lead the team in data entry, analysis and processing of information (Sphinx, ENA by SMART, SPSS and Excel). * To guaranty of the scientific quality of the final survey report, recommendations and the integrated collaboration with other ACF technical departments for contextual information. * To draft quality technical reports for external release – ie. nutrition surveys, rapid assessments, and sentinel site surveillance, ACF training sessions and/or workshops. Objective 2: Management and internal coordination: * Supervision of the surveillance team including: induction, follow up, evaluation, and promotion of positive team dynamics and motivation. * Training and building of technical capacity of the surveillance team. * Collaboration with Deputy Country Director, Technical and Field Coordinators, and Program Managers and any other ACF resource people in order to ensure the coherence of ACF activities and reports. * Follow up of the surveillance program budget in liaison with Administration * Follow up of the logistics requirements of the assessment team with the Logistics Department and relevant HoBs and/or FieldCos * Participation in the program strategy, narrative and financial project proposals Objective 3: Capacity development: * Liaising with relevant ministries and stakeholders to identify surveillance training needs and develop appropriate funding proposals * Planning and facilitating technical capacity building and training sessions for the government ministries and partner NGOs/UN agencies staff Objective 4: External representation and coordination: * Representation of ACF to UN, other NGO bodies and agencies including community leaders at the district level. * Coordination with the Ministry of Health and/or other line ministries for the implementation of surveillance activities. Level of study/specific qualifications/technical requested: * Bachelor in master’s degree in Epidemiology, nutrition, Food Security&Livelihoods, WASH, Agricultural development, sociology or related studies. * At least 2 years of experience in humanitarian work * Experience in surveillance specifically in Nutrition, FSL and WASH * Excellent knowledge of SMART, LQAS, CSAS methodologies for surveillance * Excellent communication skills * Excellent writing and analytical skills. * Good management and representation competencies. * Excellent influencing and negotiation skills * Experience in developing world context * Familiarity with ACF and acceptance of ACF’s principles. * Familiarity with donors and donor procedures * Is previous humanitarian experience needed?: Yes Apply online at: [url]http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/about/employment/job-opportunities[/url]