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Job Objectives:

Only Expatriate Position

General objective:

To evaluate the nutrition situation and opportunities in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan (Distrcits TBD), make an inventory/mapping of nutrition partners and activities already in place, to elaborate a nutrition strategy for ACF programming in this area.


Activities:

1. Collection and capitalisation of data:

* Meeting with other actors involved in assistance projects (local NGO, government bodies…)
* Visits of local health centres/other structures involved with malnutrition treatment and/or working with vulnerable population (hospital, orphanages, social centres, etc)
* Collection of data regarding population size, composition, status; protocol used in potential nutrition programs, and number of beneficiaries involved, potential morbidity, mortality and nutrition assessments done in target area in the previous months
* Collection of other relevant information, regarding the possible evolution of nutrition situation in the area (access to health care, food, markets, sanitation, housing, etc.)
* Identification of potential partners (NNGOs, INGOs, MoH structures/counterparts)
* Capitalisation of the information collected in a report

2. If time and access allow: Nutrition anthropometric assessments:

* Involve/consult local authorities
* Mapping of the area, definition of survey methodology (SMART, rapid assessment), selection of the clusters
* Recruit and train the teams for the achievement of the surveys
* Preparation of the surveys (planning, logistics), in collaboration with the team on the ground.
* Implement the survey, supervise the field work
* To enter and analyse the data
* Write the report, presenting data results, context and recommendations
* After validation by HQs, present the data to local partners and authorities

3. Design of ACF nutrition activities in the area

* Write a proposal (LFA, narrative and budget) for ACF nutrition program in the targeted area (including proposed activities, results, indicators)
* After validation of proposed LFA by the coordination field team and the HQs, write a proposal for the funding of proposed activities
previous humanitarian experience needed.

Qualifications:

Level of study/specific qualifications/technical requested:

* university background, nutritionist, epidemiologist, public health
* Fluent english.
* Good managerial and training skills
* Good capacity of representing ACF
* Good statistics and writing capacities.
* SMART

Required Competence & Skills :

* Project development capacity
* Ability to analyse and synthesize
* Capacity to supervise a team
* Organizational qualitie
* Diplomacy
* Good relations with people
* Flexibility
* Previous Humanitarian Experience Needed

Please Apply Online at: http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/get-involved/jobs/field/nutrition-assessment-manager