Head of Division- Wellness and Nourishment – Haiti

Position:

Head of Division: Nourishment and Overall health

Regional Nourishment and Health and fitness Professional.

Agreement Period : 12 Months

Area: Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Action From Starvation-United states is section of the Action Versus Starvation Global community, which provides humanitarian reduction in more than 42 nations all over the world in the sectors of diet, wellness, h2o/sanitation, and foods security. Motion Against Starvation-United states, an impartial NGO, now manages functions in 7 international locations: Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Haiti and Somalia. Action Against Hunger-Usa has approximately 1,500 personnel primarily based in the various country offices, Head Quarter in US and Operational Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. Added expansion is anticipated.

1. SUMMARY OF Posture:

The Head of Section (HOD) Diet and Health is a strategic job at the region business office. Underneath direct supervision of the Application Director (Place) and with complex oversight of the Regional Nutrition and Health and fitness Expert (Regional degree) the HOD Nourishment and Health and fitness will oversee the Well being and Nourishment division and supply technological assistance to each static and crisis courses at the region stage. This role delivers total technical and operational assistance and is accountable of Nutrition and Overall health portfolio. This features strategic engagements with interior and external stakeholders, positioning, administration of human assets, information administration, high quality assurance of implementation, resource mobilization.

Intent: Productively build and execute the nourishment and health method, leading the specialized workforce in driving the agenda at country stage, in alignment with Motion In opposition to Hunger complex framework, suggestions and guidelines.

ENGAGEMENT: Interior and external engagements with important stakeholders. Internally engagement with essential nourishment, wellness groups as perfectly as developing synergies with other sectors to market a multisector technique to tackle underlying will cause of undernutrition within just region workplace, regional, US places of work. Externally place and interact with key sector coordination discussion board, operating teams, government representatives, peer organizations, analysis establishments and donors.

Delivery: Supply technological and operational oversight to the nourishment and health and fitness portfolio ensuring projects and programs sent are of significant quality.

Vital Position Functions

1. Application and Job management.

• Collaborate in definition of diet and health tactic for Action Against Hunger and translation nationally.
• Integration and coherence of Motion Towards Hunger nourishment interventions: in accordance with the Motion Versus Starvation approach and appropriate countrywide procedures.
• Make sure the cohesion of the diet and health groups whilst endorsing multisector solution to deal with fundamental will cause of undernutrition in region office in line with the strategic prepare,
• Offer diet/well being operational help in software of job cycle administration: ensuring relevance, influence, sustainability, and high quality of the interventions.
• Observe up nourishment and health application implementation (shell out, log body, logistics, recruitment, reporting) with the crew, to be certain actualization of program target/ aims on time, scope, spending budget.
• Lead the Diet and Overall health part in over-all method layout, narrative and financial challenge conceptualization, in collaboration with other team associates as identified.
• Present nutrition and health operational support to assure software of job cycle management from conception to evaluation.
• Built-in proof-centered maternal, newborn, and boy or girl wellness and diet plans aligned with donors’ strategies, the Ministry of Well being Haiti system, and Action Towards Starvation Strategic priorities.
• Guide initiatives to reinforce the health and fitness process in Haiti, with a target on Blocking malnutrition and treatment method of Squandering, promoting Universal Overall health Protection (UHC), Early Childhood Treatment and Progress (ECCD), Management of Childhood Health issues (IMCI) within the Main Healthcare (PHC) working with capacitated Community Wellbeing Employees (CHWs).
• Prioritize neighborhood engagement for actions and social modify on Maternal Toddler Young Little one Nutrition (MIYCN) and work intently with community companions and communities to discover and tackle wellness and nutrition boundaries for advancing attempts by way of human centered technique.

1. Technological Assistance, Team Management and Advancement

• Promotes accountability and transparency by frequently sharing program success and engaging with stakeholders to guarantee that their responses is incorporated into plan design and style and implementation.
• Strives to produce high-high quality packages to meet global and nationwide standards primarily based on evidence and finest procedures thorough examination of gaps and demands.
• Develop/revise human assets composition and strategy for diet and health and fitness unit in collaboration with method managers and according to evolving application wants.
• Deal with a staff of well being and nourishment personnel, present specialized steerage, coaching and mentoring, carry out performance evaluations, and lead job improvement prepare in collaboration with human resources to promote effectiveness-based promotion in the firm.
• Applications are correctly monitored, evaluated and finding out documented through joint setting up with Ministry of Health (MOH) and other partners.
• Need Organizing and High quality Management on the very last Mile Shipping by means of monitoring the supply chain for the well timed and precise delivery of medicines and supplies to individuals and health care providers. This requires running delivery schedules, routes, and monitoring shipments to guarantee they get there at the proper area and on time in near coordination with logistic group.
• Discover potential constructing initiatives these as schooling and workshops are critical in equipping government team with the important techniques and information to efficiently have out their responsibilities.
• Alongside one another with the region application teams, detect innovation and research options.
• Combine progressive alternatives into overall health and nourishment programs by way of piloting new thematic initiatives.
• Assist in the documentation by producing expertise merchandise, human fascination tales, capitalization and dissemination of plan activities and lessons.
• Technically guide the recruitment of nutrition and health and fitness complex area practitioners by supplying a technical assessment of just about every candidate’s skills & working experience (like screening CVs, analyzing technical exams, conducting technological interviews, sharing documentation and notes with HR for the database and placement purposes).
• Deliver help to the nutrition group in jogging the method in the party of staffing gaps.

1. To be certain knowledge good quality and good/timely reporting of the programs

• Conducting investigate and analysis connected to nutrition and community well being, working with facts from several sources which includes surveys, surveillance devices, and administrative information.
• Developing and sustaining data techniques and platforms to gather, deal with, review, and disseminate regular knowledge associated to nutrition and community overall health.
• Providing complex diet facts aid and potential creating aid to govt organizations, NGOs, and other stakeholders working on diet and general public wellbeing troubles
• Contributing to coverage enhancement and application organizing related to nutrition and community overall health, based on evidence produced from research and analysis.
• Supply timely updates/report on attended conferences or education and share with appropriate individuals as needed. Repeatedly inform and updating on nourishment method implementation and any troubles on a frequent basis
• Be certain donor studies as for every set schedules (regular, quarterly, and every year) on grant things to do, indicators and achievements are manufactured in excellent.
• Validate donor proposals, reports, Motion In opposition to Starvation nutrition evaluation reviews created by application supervisors and lend assistance in the course of action.
• Get ready handover report as vital to substitution.
• Participation in weekly coordination group meetings and any other standard team or system conferences.

1. Representation, Coordination & Liaison

• lead and coordinate interagency and inter-sectoral mechanisms engagement to direct the emergency nourishment and health response to help save daily life and making certain that interventions are timely, effective, and integrated with other sectors to improve the Well being and Nourishment portfolio.
• Participation in all related conferences similar to nourishment and overall health, which include conferences with donors, associates and governmental bodies as described.
• Support Motion Versus Hunger’s advocacy things to do linked to dietary troubles (abide by up on advocacy strategies, press releases, coordination with Scaling up Diet Sunlight Community), in coordination with the relevant stakeholders.
• Promotion and placement of Action Versus Hunger as a big actor in nourishment and wellness in country (lively participation in related Complex Doing work Team, Coordination conferences and other associated message boards) and dissemination of exterior reviews.
• Look at and go after funding chances in line with the Diet and Wellbeing system.

1. SUPERVISORY Tasks

• Deputy Head of Nourishment, Health Expert and any some others as profile evolves.

1. FISCAL Obligation

• Budget development and oversight of all nourishment and Health tasks.

1. Actual physical Demands

• To vacation to the industry, the personnel have to attest to a level of physical conditioning able of enduring bodily difficult, highly annoying circumstances, which may possibly include things like the necessity to wander long distances, to try to eat a minimal eating plan and/or to reside in possibly awkward housing or tents.
• The physical needs explained here are agent of individuals that need to be satisfied by an staff to efficiently conduct the critical features of this job. Sensible lodging may perhaps be produced to allow men and women with disabilities to conduct the necessary capabilities.

1. Doing work Problems, Journey AND Atmosphere

• The responsibilities of the task involve common career attendance at least five times for every week. Must be out there to work exterior typical business hrs or on the weekends as required.
• Need to be capable to vacation as required for standard domestic and global small business applications. While accomplishing the obligations of this job in the subject, the employee may possibly be exposed to precarious settings under superior safety threats and/or pretty primary living circumstances and outside temperature conditions, as properly as infectious ailments.

1. GENDER EQUALITY COMMITMENTS & ZERO TOLERANCE TO ABUSE

• Foster an setting that supports values of girls and males, and equal entry to info.
• Deliver a function setting wherever gals and adult males have to be evaluated and promoted based on their expertise and effectiveness
• Regard beneficiaries’ ladies, men, boys and women regardless of gender, sexual intercourse orientation, incapacity, religion, race, colour, ancestry, countrywide origin, age or marital position,
• Worth and regard all cultures.
• Advertise and uphold the PSEA policy and processes.

1. Essential QUALITIFICATIONS

• Instruction: Innovative diploma in general public well being, nourishment, or a relevant discipline is required.
• Experience: At least 7 decades of progressive knowledge in running health and fitness and diet applications in building nations, with a focus on maternal, new child, and baby health and fitness and diet. Expertise doing the job in humanitarian and unexpected emergency contexts is very attractive.

1. Demanded Capabilities AND Experience Crucial

• Complex capabilities: Understanding of and practical experience in utilizing overall health and nutrition plans in accordance with world-wide best methods, together with guidelines, and requirements for maternal, newborn, and youngster wellness and nutrition. Sturdy specialized expertise in wellbeing procedure strengthening, CMAM, MIYCN, Good, SQUEAC, neighborhood engagement for behavior improve, and.
• Management skills: Shown practical experience in taking care of teams, finances management, and strategic organizing. Superb interpersonal and management capabilities, with the skill to function collaboratively with stakeholders from various backgrounds.
• Cultural sensitivity: Cultural sensitivity and skill to work properly in a multicultural natural environment. Familiarity with Haitian lifestyle and context is remarkably appealing.
• Language: Proficiency in English and French. Awareness of regional language is highly fascinating.
• Computer capabilities: Proficiency in MS Business (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and other details assessment software SPSS, EPI Details, ENA for Good, electronic wellness options (DHIS2) etcetera. Practical experience using electronic overall health remedies is remarkably desirable.
• Dedication to Action Against Starvation values: Shown dedication to the values and mission of Motion Towards Hunger, which includes a commitment to gender equality and human rights.

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