POSITION TITLE: Nutrition Coordinator
COUNTRY PROGRAM: Sudan
RESPONSIBLE TO: Country Program Manager
LOCATION: East Darfur (with travel to sites throughout Darfur)
STATUS: Full Time
SUPERVISORY CAPACITY: Nutrition Program Staff
DATE: July 2015
COUNTRY PROGRAM: Sudan
RESPONSIBLE TO: Country Program Manager
LOCATION: East Darfur (with travel to sites throughout Darfur)
STATUS: Full Time
SUPERVISORY CAPACITY: Nutrition Program Staff
DATE: July 2015
COUNTRY PROGRAM MISSION
The American Refugee Committee (ARC) Sudan Program started in 2004 in response to the emergency needs of some 500,000 conflict-affected IDPs and host populations in the Tulus and Gereida corridors in South Darfur. ARC currently works in El Salam, Tullus, Gereida, Bielel and Dismu Districts in South Darfur State including two large IDP camps (Kalma and Gereida Camps). Although South Darfur remains the largest component of our country program, in 2014, ARC expanded its program in East Darfur State to include Adilla, Yassin, and Abu Karynka, Asalaya and El Ferdous localities, including El Neem IDP camp. ARC works mainly in the sectors of Health, Nutrition, WASH with smaller project in emergency NFI distribution to IDPs, as well as more recovery programs in Peace Building and Food Security and Livelihoods. The overall aim of the program continues to be: to improve the well-being of the target populations by addressing their immediate humanitarian needs and contributing to long-term community stabilization.
Major donors include USAID (OFDA), CHF (pooled humanitarian funds), UN funding from UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, WFP and private funding. ARC Sudan’s program has an annual budget of between $US 9-12million, with 10 expatriates and over 700+ national staff, some of whom are seconded from the line Ministries of the Sudan government.
PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
The Nutrition Coordinator will be based in East Darfur but will be responsible for the overall design and implementation of nutrition activities throughout ARC Sudan’s project areas (East and South Darfur.) Travel between states and the capital will be required.
The Nutrition Coordinator will lead the nutritional teams in the development of sector plans/proposals; internally and externally coordinating sector activities; establishing and maintaining public relations with state authorities, UN agencies and clusters, other NGOs and implementing partners; coordinating management support; monitoring program implementation and reviewing plans as appropriate, managing all sector staff, including performance management and staff development; coordinating the production of sector and program reports (ARC and donors) and reviewing/summarizing them for submission to the Country Program Manager.
MAJOR AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY PRIMARY DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Program Management—60%
- Supervise and coordinate all Darfur nutrition activities to ensure activities are in line with ARC’s program objectives;
- Provide technical assistance to and build reporting capacity of nutrition staff for report writing, data collection, presentations, and analysis;
- Prepare the monthly activity reports for submission to the Country Program Manager;
- As directed, represent ARC at official meetings, serve as the ARC liaison in Darfur on nutrition issues, including liaising with UN agencies as directed by the Country Program Manager;
- Prepare donor reports in a timely manner;
- Monitor and evaluate all field activities;
- Ensure that the implementation of nutrition activities is in line with the SPHERE standards;
- Ensure that all nutrition projects have well-defined performance indicators and output monitoring mechanisms;
- Draft grant proposals as requested by the Country Program Manager;
- Facilitate monthly management meetings to review progress on plans, spending on budget and other management issues;
- Feed all field management issues into senior management team meetings.
- Ensure the CMAM, IYCF and ENP activities are implemented as per the project proposal and work plans.
- Ensure high coverage of CMAM screening across ARC's intervention areas in Darfur with clear behavioral change communication outcomes;
- Manage the implementation of rapid assessment, SMART surveys and M&E framework/tools for CMAM;
- Provide support in monitoring and implementation of nutrition programs as per CMAM protocols through field visits to out-patient therapeutic care (OTP), stabilization center (SC), target supplementary feeding programs (TSFP), BSFP and community mobilizations.
Program Development—20%
- Advise the Country Program Manager on current and potential needs of IDP and returnee populations in East and South Darfur;
- Participate as a member of a needs assessment team for any potential new programs as requested by the Country Program Manager.
Personnel Management—20%
- Directly supervise nutrition program staff in the field, providing regular performance feedback;
- Build capacity of staff in a proactive and strategic manner;
- Performance mange direct reports.
EDUCATION, TECHNICAL SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED
- Over 5 years experience with an INGO in nutrition programming.
- University degree in nutrition; Masters degree preferable;
- Experience in managing and working with a multicultural staff;
- Strong participatory leadership and interpersonal skills;
- Ability to motivate and counsel staff working in a complex emergency environment;
- USAID/OFDA/UNHCR background preferred;
- Experience and/or knowledge of Sudan (history, politics, culture, etc.) and sensitive to issues involved in working in Sudan preferable;
- Strong verbal and written communication experience;
- Experience of designing, implementing and analyzing nutrition surveys (preferably SMART, and SQUEAC);
- Experience in analyzing and interpreting nutrition data and writing reports to a high technical standard;
- Strong computer literacy; strong skills in Microsoft Office;
- High level of computer literacy including experience using nutrition related statistical packages such as ENA, Epi Info or SPSS;
- Must be fluent in English, knowledge of Arabic a plus
- Background in Health a plus.
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