Requisition ID: req59035 Job Title: ERT Nutrition Coordinator Sector: Health Employment Category: Fixed Term Employment Type: Full-Time Open to Expatriates: Not Applicable Location: Global Roving Work Arrangement:Hybrid Job Description The IRC’s Emergencies & Humanitarian Action Unit (EHAU) oversees IRC’s global acute emergency preparedness and response activities. The mission of the EHAU is to expand and improve IRC’s ability to help affected communities survive in acute emergencies and hard to reach contexts by investing in people, systems, and solutions to complex humanitarian challenges. The EHAU team achieves this mission through ongoing rigorous risk analysis, investing in capacity strengthening of frontline humanitarians, partnership with local actors, offering collaborative support and technical assistance to teams working in emergencies and hard to reach places, and deploying and supporting world class emergency response staff as they help people affected by acute crisis situations. Nutrition programming at IRC Our overall objective is to protect children from all forms of undernutrition so that they are well-nourished. We increase access to, and continuity of, treatment for acute malnutrition through in-patient and out-patient care. Using evidence from our cutting-edge research, we’re simplifying diagnosis and treatment and bringing care closer to home. We’re also delivering high-impact preventive services through infant and young child feeding programs, infant feeding support for breastfed and non-breastfed infants, cash vouchers, complementary feeding promotion, and micro-nutrient supplementation and fortification while also investing in nutrition integration across health, education, early childhood development, child protection and economic programming. Job Overview: Emergency Response Team (ERT) Staff are deployed to support either existing country programs in their emergency response, or to initiate a new response. The Nutrition Coordinator will provide technical leadership and direction for an effective, high quality, lifesaving nutrition response. S/he works closely with other technical coordinators, enabling the IRC to provide integrated and client-focused services. The Emergency Nutrition Coordinator will be responsible for all aspects of emergency nutrition programming, particularly the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) and infant and young child feeding in emergencies (IYCF-E), and will ensure national and international guidelines are adhered to as well as uphold quality standards and ensure results-based monitoring/evaluation. S/he will report to the ERT Country Director on deployment, and will work closely with the Senior Technical Advisor for Emergency Health, as well as the Nutrition Technical Advisors in the Health Unit. Emergency Deployment Responsibilities: Technical Leadership and Response Roll-out: • Deliver high quality and timely emergency nutrition responses. • Support rapid needs assessments and provide prioritized recommendations for nutrition activities. • Design nutrition program responses and strategy, in coordination with internal and external actors. • Coordinate closely with IRC’s health, water and sanitation, food security, and other relevant teams to ensure integrated programming across sectors. • Develop technical proposals and budgets for donors and prepare timely reports and updates. • Lead nutrition program implementation including staff recruitment and training, workplan development, procurement and inventory planning, and budget management. • Establish program monitoring systems. Ensure consistent reporting and analysis of results to improve program quality, and build safeguarding risk analysis and relevant risk mitigation measures into project design and implementation. • Maintain updated, multisector service mapping and referral pathway for violence response. • Ensure compliance with IRC policy and procedures throughout the program team and activities. • Represent the IRC, coordinating with other agencies, local government, donors, cluster and other partners. • Provide a comprehensive handover to successor at the end of deployments. Team Management in Emergencies: • Provide day-to-day line management to the Nutrition team within each response, ensuring they are adequately onboarded, that there is space for capacity building, and that they collaborate effectively while remaining accountable for quality of work. • Cultivate and model a positive, inclusive, safe and caring work environment, where diversity, different work styles, personalities and approaches are valued. • Advance efforts across IRC to promote equality and inclusion across our programming and our ways of working. • Engage in effective power-sharing practices and ensure colleagues have the knowledge, support, and power to do their work with autonomy. Management of Nutrition Partnerships in Emergencies: • Champion a culture of effective and respectful partnerships. Promote partner-led programming in line with IRC’s “why not partner?” and “partner as equals” approach. • Develop staffing structures with the appropriate number of staff to effectively manage partnerships and ensure quality. Ensure that partnership considerations are incorporated into the overall emergency response plan and that local partners are actively engaged in response design and program delivery. • Participate in the identification of potential partners and the stakeholder analysis process, and actively contribute to the relevant sections of Partner Capacity Analysis (PCA) and the subsequent development of partner support plans. • Manage the implementation of action items in the nutrition and/or health sections of partner support plans. • Lead and/or support collaborative project and budget design with partners. • Ensure each program design defines IRC’s emergency approach based on how we can best support, reinforce and complement local actors. • Work collaboratively with partners to ensure that project budgets reflect fair market value and ensure appropriate budget allocation for IRC to support partners in alignment with the overall response / program design. • Review and provide feedback on partner technical tools, reports, and data as required. Collaborate with partners on recommended adaptations or process improvements. • Actively participate in the Partnership Working Group (PWG). Non-deployment Responsibilities: When not deployed, the Nutrition Coordinator will contribute to learning and strengthening nutrition in emergencies tools and processes and will work with Senior Technical Advisor of Emergency Health as well as with the Health and Nutrition Global Lead and country and regional focal points to support strategic emergency preparedness and readiness work with country programs. This will include: • Collaborate with EU and HQ program technical staff in the ongoing development of emergency preparedness and response tools, including—but not limited to—the Sector Toolkits for Emergency Programming (STEP) Initiative. • Support the design and implementation of nutrition-focused capacity building strategies, in coordination with HU and Country Program teams. • Provide technical support to existing country programs remotely and through in-country visits or short-term deployments - when needed. • Actively support Emergency Health and Health Unit for efforts that require emergency or nutrition technical input. Job Requirements: • Master’s/post-graduate degree in Public Health Nutrition/Global Nutrition or related Nutrition degree is required. • A minimum of 3 years of nutrition humanitarian field experience in a complex emergency at the senior nutrition program management/coordination level • Must have field experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of community-based management of acute malnutrition and infant and young child feeding programs at a minimum. • Has experience working in emergency contexts, volatile environment and with security related measures • Demonstrated technical expertise in surveys and assessments particularly SMART, IYCF and the Semi-Quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SQUEAC) assessment a plus. • Excellent communication and coordination capabilities, including experience leading teams. • Effective people and program management skills in acute emergency contexts: including experience in program design, proposal writing, budget development and oversight, and the implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems. • Flexible work attitude: Be flexible and yet focused & reliable in an environment of changing demands. • Availability and willingness totravel 65%of the time to regional and international locations (at short notice (within 72 hours) in case of emergencies). • Professional-level fluency in spoken and written English. fluency in French and/or Arabic a plus