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The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
Malnutrition remains a serious threat to lasting human and economic development in Mozambique. Despite a significant increase in political will, capacity strengthening in food security and nutrition (FSN) overall and targeted investments for improved nutrition over the last 10 years, it is still estimated that almost 11 % of GDP is lost annually due to malnutrition (Cost of Hunger Study, 2017). Adding to this, Mozambique is increasingly suffering under the triple burden of malnutrition with overweight, underweight and micronutrient deficiencies co-existing in urban settings, while the former two prevail in rural settings. A closer look at the numbers reveals the scary reality – stunting was remained largely unchanged since 2011 with a prevalence of 38% amongst children under 5 (IOF 2019/20) – while anaemia affects 54% of women (DHS 2011) and 64% of children (IMASIDA, 2015).
In direct support of Government priorities and fully aligned to WFP’s Country Strategic Plans 2017-2021 and 2022-2026, WFP CO is implementing nutrition specific and nutrition-sensitive programmes.
Against this backdrop, the Nutrition Programme Associates (NPA’s) which are part of the Nutrition and HIV Unit of WFP Mozambique team and based in the field offices, in close collaborations with Provincial government and non-government counterparts, are responsible to manage, oversee, monitor and report for WFP Nutrition specific and sensitive programs and interventions, provide technical assistance to the design of policies and programs that directly impact nutrition in their respective provinces.provide effective specialized support and technical analyses to policy and programme activities that effectively meet the nutritional needs as part of WFP nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programming.
The NPA’s should ensure alignment with national policies and strategies related to food and nutrition security, with WFP Country Strategic Plans and WFP Nutrition and HIV strategies.
SUPERVISION:
The Nutrition Programme Assistant will be reporting to the Head of Field Office, while liaison with Nutrition and HIV team of the Country Office for technical and operational guidance.
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition or Public Health.
Experience: Three years of experience in overseeing and managing nutrition programs. In providing technical input to policies, programs, intervention, and activities, conducting trainings
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Portuguese.
Purpose
Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field. Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity. Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact. Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.People
Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports. Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit. Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team. Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.Performance
Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work. Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately. Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team. Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.Partnership
Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field. Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners. Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives. Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.• Has worked with technical teams (i.e. nutrition, VAM, etc.).
• Has contributed to implementation of programmes.
• Has observed or assisted with policy discussions.
Type of Contract: Service Contract _ Level 6
Duration: 12 Months
Duty Station: Chimoio, Manica Province
All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.
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