Advisor, Nutrition

Technical Leadership and Support (40%) 

• Provide senior-level technical expertise and oversight to ensure programs apply evidence-based nutrition interventions and approaches in our programs, and develop and support new state-of-the-art approaches. 
• Provide technical assistance to country and global nutrition projects. 
• Work with SCI country offices to build their nutrition programming capacity, including approaches to integrating nutrition into other health programming, and especially into Livelihoods, HIV and Early Childhood Development work as needed. 
• Provide leadership, training and technical support for workshops, and collaborate in developing training modules and other tools, as needed. 
• Provide technical support to develop Nourishing the Youngest Common Approach, which is a standardized method to nutrition programming across SC. 
• In coordination with the Nutrition Team Lead, represent DGH on nutrition-related matters with other offices within SC and externally on specific technical topics with donors, academic institutions, and technical assistance organizations.

Mobilizing Public and Private Resources (30%)

• Play a leadership role with SCUS and SCI country offices in identification, development and submission of quality proposals in nutrition, health and food security.
• Collaborate and develop long-term funding strategies for SC’s technical and programming priorities in nutrition.
• Establish and maintain new/existing relationships with key donors (headquarters and regional/country level) and program partners to advance global nutrition sector work.

Program Management (10%)

• Oversee USAID funded projects in Laos, Niger and other countries as assigned. 
• Ensure high quality program management through regular monitoring and oversight of program activities; represent project to both internal and external audiences. 
• Oversee and coordinate project activities with country project teams and SCI offices.
• Contribute to key donor deliverables including management plans, annual work plans, donor reports, results trackers and ad hoc requests for USAID and other donor-funded projects.
• Supervise a Chief of Party and a Senior Nutrition Specialist, who are both based in the field.

Program Learning and Innovation (10%)

• Articulate key nutrition program innovation and learning priorities, especially related to key gaps in the evidence base for programming, and the steps needed to inform policy, and translate policy into practice at scale.
• Identify best practices from country programs and global work, document these practices, and disseminate and promote uptake within and outside SC.
• Share SC best practices externally and introduce new evidence-based best practices into SC global and country-level work.
• Support monitoring and evaluation, with a focus on sound data collection, analysis, and interpretation for program management, proposal development, and documentation of project innovations and impact. Support high-quality baseline, midterm and final evaluations and other program planning assessments.
• Initiate planning and implementation of skills development/training/capacity building for SC’s nutrition technical staff including development and review of training materials.
• Collaborate with SCI and other SC members on technical matters.

Technical Leadership for Policy and Advocacy (10%)

• Help define SC’s global advocacy agenda to address key agency priorities around nutrition.
• Contribute to building alliances and strategic partnerships to influence policy and support learning and innovation.
• Provide nutrition expertise to implementation of larger agency advocacy efforts.
• Provide guidance for country-level advocacy efforts.
• Provide technical expertise to policy and advocacy related efforts with a nutrition focus on global campaigns.