PROJECT SUMMARY
Alive & thrive is an initiative to save lives, prevent illness, and ensure healthy growth and development through optimal adolescent, maternal, infant, and young child feeding and caring practices.
Since 2009, A&T has been working in Ethiopia within the context of the National Nutrition Program (NNP) and the National Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Strategy (NNSAS) to promote maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) across multiple sectors at the federal, regional, woreda, and community levels. The A&T Ethiopia 3.0 investment will build upon successes and lessons learned from previous IYCF efforts to significantly improve MIYCN practices. In this new grant, A&T will provide greater analytical, technical, and systems-building support to bolster the capacity of federal and regional authorities to develop, deliver, monitor, and evaluate quality MIYCN services.
A&T Ethiopia 3.0 will partner with the GOE and others to strengthen multi-sector food and nutrition coordination by supporting the regional Food and Nutrition Coordinating Offices. Alive & Thrive Ethiopia 3.0 is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The initiative is managed by FHI 360.
POSITION SUMMARY
As part of its systems strengthening and capacity building initiative, A&T has planned to support the Government of Ethiopia for the implementation of the Ethiopian food system road map and food and nutrition strategy at national and among regional levels through hiring the National senior food system and nutrition multi-sector coordination advisor. The overarching objective of the recruitment support is to ensure the coordination, linkage, and alignment of the national and regional food system and nutrition implementing actors and planned activities. This position holder is expected to coordinate and lead for implementation of the food system road map and food and nutrition strategy at national regional levels through coordinating and leading the regional food system and nutrition coordinating offices staff’ actors eight regions and two city administration.
He/she will act as a liaison agent between the National food system and nutrition coordination platform, regional FSNCOs, MOH, and the Alive & Thrive country office. She/he would ensure the coordination and alignment of the different coordination platforms for the effective implementation of the Food system road map and FNS. He/she will be based in the Minister of Health under the nutrition coordination lead executive office and will report administratively to the coordination lead executive office LEO and operationally to the Alive and Thrive country program director. He/she will spend 50 % time at MOH and 50 % At the Alive & thrive office.
Essential Job Functions/Roles and Responsibilities:
The senior food system and Nutrition multi-sector coordination advisor is responsible for creating linkages among the MOH nutrition coordination lead executive office, FNS implementing sectors, regional food system and nutrition coordination offices staff, and Alive & Thrive country office support for the government to improve the overall food system and nutrition joint planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation at national and regional levels.
Location: Ministry of Health, Addis Abeba
1) Food system and nutrition planning, monitoring, and reporting at national and regional levels
2). Support food system and nutrition coordination and linkages at all levels
3). Lead and coordinate Food system and FNS Implementation
Competencies and critical success factors
Functional Competencies
Technical Expertise:
Knowledge Management and Learning:
Development and Operational Effectiveness:
Leadership and Teamwork:
Diplomatic and conflict resolution skills; and
Corporate Competencies:
Negotiation skills:
Partner/Sub-Award Management:
Capacity Building, Training and Supervision:
Operations Management (Finance, HR, etc.):
Project/Program Reporting:
Quality Assurance:
There are 31 FHI 360 development competencies, of greatest focus for this particular job will be:
Demonstrates the ability to assess needs within agreed upon duties and considers course of action best to meet those needs.
Key working relationships
Date Revised: 9/13/2021
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