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Purpose of the role

The Senior Nutritionist will be a key member of the Technical Team at ENN, bringing additional skills,

expertise and capacity to the delivery of ENN’s projects.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Nutritionist will work across a range of ENN projects which will vary during the period of employment, but may include:

· Management of Acute Malnutrition in Infants (MAMI)

· Infant Feeding in Emergencies (IFE)

· Field Exchange (FEX)

· Nutrition Exchange (NEX)

· En-Net

· Global Technical Assistance Mechanism (GTAM)

· Knowledge Management for the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement

· Wasting and Stunting (WaSt)

· Adolescent Nutrition (ADO)

· Sector Leadership (LEAD)

· Multi Sectoral Programming

A full list of our work areas and projects may be found on the ENN website.

Examples of the types of responsibilities the postholder will hold, depending on the specific project requirements and their experience, may include:

· Coordination (multi agency, working groups and forums)

· Development and updates of technical materials and briefings

· Knowledge Management

· Research and Mapping

· Publications – support and development of content, editing, liaising with stakeholders and suppliers

· Reports and Analysis development

· Development of technical resources

· Monitoring and Evaluation

· Project Reporting

· Project Indicator development and management

· Project Proposals

· Case Studies

· Field Visits

· External Representation

· Communications

· Synthesising and disseminating information from technical meetings

· Events engagement

Person Specification

Essential requirements

· Bachelors Degree in Nutrition/Community Nutrition or Public Health or Medicine discipline

· Demonstrable field experience across several relevant aspects of emergency nutrition programming including CMAM, MAMI, IYCF, Adolescent Nutrition

· Experience of knowledge management, and / or projects that focus on ‘learning’

· Strong knowledge of the current key topics and challenges in the International Nutrition sector, including MAMI, ADO, IFE and beyond

· Excellent communication, written and analytical skills

· Excellent attention to detail and ability to synthesise and sense make complex data and information

· Strong interpersonal skills, motivated, takes initiative, innovates and drives progress

· Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills

· Good cross cultural awareness

· Excellent presentation and communication skills and experience of establishing good working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders at national and global level

· Ability to independently manage a diverse and busy workload, prioritising effectively, and able to work both autonomously and as a member of a dispersed and diverse team

· Demonstrable experience of working on projects funded by government and international donors (ideally including OFDA and DFID)

Desirable requirements

· Post graduate level qualification in a relevant area would be an advantage (D)

· Experience of developing training resources and delivering training related to child health/nutrition (D)

· Experience of supporting health programmes/system strengthening in developing contexts (D)

· Nutrition/nutrition-related primary research experience (D)

· Sub-editing experience / experience in producing high quality publications (D)

· Currently part of the ‘humanitarian community’ with own professional network of contacts (D)

· French speaker or another relevant language to our portfolio would be an advantage (D)