Health and Nutrition Coordinator At Action against hunger in Spain

You will contribute to ending world hunger by…

Lead the mission’s strategy in Health and Nutrition in a coordinated manner with the country strategy, ensuring the quality of the programs, guaranteeing technical assistance to the mission team and local counterparts and representing Action Against Hunger in external areas of technical coordination such as donors, technical/sectoral working groups, local and national authorities, among others.

The main activities you will perform are the following:

Objective 1: Ensure strategic leadership for the Health and Nutrition program and technical support for implementation.

•Provide leadership and technical support to the health and nutrition team to solidly understand the needs of beneficiaries or vulnerable groups.

•Study, monitor and report regularly on the health and nutrition situation of vulnerable populations based on external sources (donors, government entities, multilateral agencies and other NGOs) and internal sources.

•In coordination with other technical sectors, lead the design and technical development of the health and nutrition component of proposals for donors and planning of interventions.

•Systematize the Mission’s progress in Health and Nutrition: number of beneficiaries, intervention sites, program results and other indicators in internal reports and for donors.

•Incorporate feedback and lessons learned into redefining or adapting programs.

•Contribute to the development of multi-sectoral intervention projects and approaches in the context of the country strategy in coordination with other sectors/technical areas, as well as with the cross-cutting approaches to Gender and Protection.

Objective 2: Capacity development and contribution to quality standards

•Prepare, review, adapt and validate job descriptions for Health and Nutrition team members in coordination with Human Resources.

•Participate in the recruitment and selection process of the Health and Nutrition team in coordination with Human Resources.

•Ensure technical induction of the Health and Nutrition team.

•Promote and lead the use of technological tools for the Health and Nutrition sector and the digital transformation in its area in coordination with MEAL.

•Propose or validate training topics and content for the Health and Nutrition team.

•Conduct identification of capacity development needs in local partners/counterparts.

•Organize and coordinate technical meetings with ACH Health and Nutrition teams and local partners/counterparts.

•Promote AAH’s mandate, strategy, procedures and internal standards within the H&N team

•Develop guidelines and tools for key interventions that ensure ACH standards, core humanitarian principles, SPHERE standards and any other relevant international standards are met throughout the project cycle.

•Uphold humanitarian principles and ACH principles at all stages of S&N programming and provide pragmatic guidance to the H&N team on this matter.

Objective 3: Project cycle

•Participate in the formulation of projects from the Health and Nutrition component

•Provide technical assistance and validate at a technical level the implementation of Health and Nutrition activities.

•Participate in the development, coordination of implementation and monitoring of baseline studies of Health and Nutrition projects or components.

•Provide strategic and technical advice to implementation teams to devise creative solutions for the delivery and monitoring of S&N services in both accessible and inaccessible areas.

•Identify opportunities for action-based research to enhance S&N programming, pilot innovation projects, and seek collaboration with appropriate institutions.

•Work closely with the MEAL team to enhance accountability, ensure feedback and lessons learned are integrated into program adaptation, design technical methodologies to effectively monitor and evaluate the S&N program.

•Prepare terms of reference (TOR), coordinate and follow up on evaluations (internal or external) of projects from the Health and Nutrition component.

•Review and capitalize on evaluation recommendations for feedback in the formulation of new proposals.

•Provide technical advice to WASH, Food Security and Livelihoods in common areas of intervention such as hygiene promotion, nutrition and food security and construction of health, educational and other facilities.

•Lead Health and Nutrition components of monthly status reports, 5Ws Clusters, reviewing internal and external reports, including donor reports.

Objective 4: Representation and external coordination

Develop and maintain technical relationships with key external actors in the field of Health and Nutrition, such as donors, humanitarian teams, authorities, local and international organizations.

•Participate in meetings and technical forums such as clusters and sector specialists.

•Coordinate, supervise and maintain relationships with counterparties or subcontracted entities.

•Identify and maintain spaces that facilitate the exchange of information and experiences of ACH with other organizations on Health and Nutrition issues.

• Document lessons learned, best practices and case studies that provide in-depth technical information, programmatic approaches and contribute to learning in the sector.

•Ensure the projection of the area through knowledge management at an internal level and external influence.

•Identify opportunities for alliances with other stakeholders (NGOs, governments, agencies, etc.).

•Support the Country Director and Deputy Country Director in institutional representation, when required.

Objective 5: Coordination with mission support areas.

•Coordinate with support areas (Finance, Logistics and Human Resources) support for Health and Nutrition interventions.

•Contribute to the implementation of logistical procedures for procurement, purchasing, transportation and mobilization.

•Participate in the preparation of technical budgets for your sector.

Objective 6: Security management

• Comply with the mission security plan and ensure compliance with the plan by the team under your command.

•Perform security management tasks that may be assigned in your protocols.

•Communicate any information related to safety or non-compliance with the safety plan to the workplace safety managers.

Does this description fit you?

• University education in Public Health or Medicine, with experience in Nutrition.
• Nutrition training with a strong knowledge and experience in Public Health.
• Project management cycle
• Experience in strategic planning and proposal formulation
• Planning and implementation of interventions in the area of ​​health and nutrition.
• Knowledge of the context and systems of Health and Nutrition in LATAM and desirable in the Venezuelan context.
• Minimum of 3 years in the humanitarian sector.
• Desirable: experience working with partners/counterparts for capacity development.

Our compensation package:

At Acción Contra el Hambre you have the opportunity to join a multicultural, professional and innovative organization with opportunities to participate in high social impact projects. We also offer:

• Contract duration: 6 months
• Base: Caracas, Venezuela
• Accompanied position: No
• Compensation package: benefits covered by the organization according to Action Against Hunger’s compensation policy
  1. Insurance for expatriate personnel: Health, Life, repatriation, travel.
  2. Two (2) trips for Breaks (R&R) per year according to the established reference area.
  3. Per Diem of 215 euros for each Break Trip (paid in Mission).
  4. Shared accommodation -Guest house-.
  5. Return ticket to country of origin.
  6. Vacation
• Continuous training in technical areas.

At Action Against Hunger we are firmly committed to diversity and gender equality. Our calls are open to people who belong to Indigenous peoples and people with disabilities in order to ensure inclusion and diversity in all our actions.

We reserve the right to close the call early if the vacancy is filled before the established deadline during the selection process.

Action Against Hunger is committed to preventing any kind of unwelcome behaviour at work, including sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and/or financial malpractice; We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment and to share our code of conduct and other related policies as only those people who share our values ​​and code of conduct will be recruited to work for us.