Programme Coverage Officer (Stunting Discount)

World Meals Programme (WFP) Ethiopia Job Emptiness:

• Place: Programme Coverage Officer (Stunting Discount)
• Deadline: March, 06/2024

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CONTRACTUAL INFORMATION

JOB TITLE: Programme Coverage Officer (Stunting Discount)

CONTRACT TYPE: Fastened Time period NOA

UNIT/DIVISION: Programme – Diet Unit

DUTY STATION: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

DURATION: 1 yr with doable extension 

ABOUT WFP

The World Meals Programme (WFP) is United Nations frontline company within the battle in opposition to starvation, WFP is frequently responding to emergencies. We save lives by getting food to the hungry quick. However WFP additionally works to assist forestall starvation sooner or later. We do that by way of programmes that use food to construct belongings, unfold data and nurture stronger, extra dynamic communities. This helps communities turn out to be extra food safe. On common, WFP goals to carry food help to greater than 80 million folks in 80 nations.

WFP Ethiopia is working with the Authorities and humanitarian companions to strengthen the resilience of Ethiopia’s most susceptible inhabitants and to chart a extra affluent and sustainable future for the subsequent era. The Nation Workplace additionally helps programmes that use food help to empower girls, rework areas affected by local weather change and maintain kids at school. It goals to contribute to Ethiopia’s five-year growth agenda, the Development and Transformation Plan (GTP), by way of which the Authorities combats food insecurity.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

This job is present in Ethiopia Nation Workplace beneath Diet Unit and job holder will report back to a extra senior Programme Coverage Officer.

JOB PURPOSE

This job will present technical support and recommendation to nutrition focal factors and on nutrition actions, in assist of WFP Ethiopia’s efforts to scale back stunting

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Below the supervision of the Stunting Prevention Officer, the incumbent will carry out the next duties: 

• Capability builds workers and companions to strengthen Social Behaviour Change (SBC) abilities, competencies, and skills of the workforce, to be able to ship the required outcomes.  
• Present technical help to WFP, Authorities and NGO companions on Diet-sensitive programming and Multisectoral Coordination. 
• Take accountability for incorporating gender views in all areas of labor, to make sure equal participation of ladies and men. 
• Present technical recommendation on stunting discount and coordinate the SBC exercise design, programming and implementation on the Nation Workplace and sub-office stage.  
•  Present project management assist to nutrition-specific and delicate tasks and actions making certain a coordinated method with wider programmes/tasks that they adjust to WFP requirements and procedures. 
•  Present technical support and coordinate the formative research, SBC strategy growth and implementation.  
• Present technical help on the SBC actions implementation at WFP sub-offices stage and integration of SBCC into nutrition-sensitive packages MOUs and mission proposals.  
• Conduct mentoring and training on SBC implementation, supportive supervision and evaluation conferences.  
• Assist the capability building of WFP workers, companions and nationwide authorities on SBC and nutrition delicate programming to organize for and reply to nutrition wants at completely different stage.  
• Contribute to the event of nutrition idea notes, mission proposals and actions, plans and processes making certain alignment with wider nutrition insurance policies and steering.  
• Present steering to assist workers, appearing as a degree of referral and helping them with evaluation and queries. 
• Liaise with inner counterparts to make sure efficient collaboration, and monitor ongoing nutrition-specific and delicate programming.  
• Observe information gathering and monitoring/evaluation programs making certain that rigorous high quality requirements are maintained. 
• Analysis and analyse information to offer enter into reporting actions and contribute to the preparation of correct and well timed reporting on nutrition actions that permits knowledgeable decision-making and consistency of data offered to stakeholders. 
• Assist the identification, growth and management of potential partnerships to collaborative working to fulfill nutrition wants. 
• Assist the capability building of WFP workers, companions and nationwide authorities to organize for and reply to nutrition wants for instance by way of project management assist of studying initiatives. 
• Revise and operationalize a Social Behaviour Change bundle for stunting discount using multisectoral programming and programs principle method (food, health, social safety, education programs) 
• Different as required. 

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Assist WFP’s particular efforts to scale back stunting nation-wide
• Set up strategic and operational partnerships with authorities and growth companions in assist of efforts to scale back stunting
• Establish entry factors in present programmes to make them ‘nutrition-sensitive’
• Evaluate and analyse traits and rising insurance policies on the discount of stunting in Ethiopia, present focused recommendation to WFP programme workers as wanted
• Monitor the progress of dietary outcomes of WFP’s and its companions efforts (stunting charges throughout areas)

EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Expertise with and publicity to the implementation of nationwide/worldwide growth programmes. 
• Expertise working in public health/food security/nutrition-related actions. 
• Expertise figuring out and defining nutrition points/issues inside a rustic. 
• Working data of growth and/or humanitarian nutrition in Africa with expertise within the implementation of prevention of malnutrition packages. 
• Technical data of acute malnutrition, persistent malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, maternal, toddler and younger little one feeding optimum practices and the 
• developmental affect of malnutrition on the human physique. 
• Desired expertise in drafting steering and insurance policies in nutrition programming. 
• Expertise in coordination together with work with multi-sector actors and stakeholders from authorities, NGO, civil society and UN ideally in SUN (scaling up nutrition) or REACH. 
• Expertise working with communities together with qualitative and quantitative research skills 

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Schooling: Superior College diploma in in Sociology, Social Improvement, Improvement Economics or Efficiency Administration or different related area or First College Diploma with further years of associated work expertise 

Expertise: No less than One yr of accountable post-graduate skilled expertise working in built-in and multi-sectoral programming involving multi-stakeholders particularly in SBC programming in health and nutrition tasks. 

Language: Fluency in each oral and written communication in English. Information of the native language is an added benefit. 

WFP has a zero-tolerance method to conduct equivalent to fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to WFP’s requirements of conduct and can subsequently endure rigorous background verification internally or by way of third events. Chosen candidates will even be required to offer further info as a part of the verification train. Misrepresentation of data offered throughout the recruitment course of could result in disqualification or termination of employment

WFP is not going to request fee at any stage of the recruitment course of together with on the provide stage. Any requests for fee must be refused and reported to native law enforcement authorities for acceptable motion.