Nutrition Coordinator Job Vacancy at Save the Children Niger

Job Title:Nutrition Coordinator, Diffa, Niger
Closing Date: Thursday, 24 May 2012
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Save the Children began working in Niger in July 2005 in response to the nutrition emergency. Save the Children established feeding programmes for malnourished children in Maradi province (Tessaoua and Aiguie districts) and Zinder province (Kantché (ex-Matameye) and Magaria districts) using the community therapeutic care (CTC) model. This programme has continued since then, with an average of 30,000 to 40,000 new admissions per year, and it has progressively shifted from a large-scale emergency response towards an integrated service of the primary health care system. In 2010, in response to large scale food insecurity & malnutrition Save the Children opened another field base in Diffa.

Niger is currently facing a nutrition crisis with an estimated 6.3 million people expected to be in food insecuri ty in the month of April. Save the Children has embarked in an ambitious £30m strategy that aims to cover 1.3 million people. The strategy is prioritizing Food Security and Nutrition with plans to expand the scope in an integrated multi-sectoral way covering six thematic sectors.

Job Purpose

Your role is to initiate, lead, advise, support and optimise the contribution of our country programmes to Save the Children UK's (Save the Children) global Child Survival breakthrough and campaigns. This will involve the development, designing and management of the nutrition programme and will include proposal writing, the provision of technical support , training and capacity building, advocacy and representation and management of budget and other resources.

If you are interested in this post you should have qualifications in health, nutrition or related field and a substantial experience at international level in technical support and/or programme management and also direct experience of planning, implementing and measuring the impact of health, hunger reduction or other related programmes. You will also need to have experience of planning and implementing campaigns, policy analysis and development, and advocacy as well as a successful track record of developing large-scale proposals (£1m and above) and securing funding from donors.

Our selection processes reflect our commitment to safeguard children from abuse. Our people are as diverse as the challenges we face.

Closing Date: 14th May 2012 at Midnight.
How to apply:

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