Deployable Nutrition Specialist

Disasters and conflicts threaten children’s rights and damage the societies they live in. Last year alone, Plan International responded to 81 disasters globally to champion and uphold the rights of children, particularly girls, before, during and after emergencies.

To sustain its engagement with children affected by crises, our Humanitarian team is currently recruiting committed humanitarian experts to deploy 9 months of the year to various emergency contexts. This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth of our Core Surge team and to support children and their communities around the world in building resilience to increasing disaster risks.

The Opportunity

Plan International implements food security, nutrition and livelihoods programmes in over 30 countries, supported by multiple donors and governments. The main focus is on emergency lifesaving interventions, with an increasing emphasis on recovery and capacity-strengthening interventions with a climate change adaptation lens. In response to the ongoing global food crisis, Plan International has been scaling up responses in food security, nutrition and livelihoods reaching the most affected communities. Integrated food security and nutrition is a key component of Plan International’s humanitarian work.

As a Deployable Nutrition Specialist, you will provide technical leadership and support to the Country Offices (COs) primarily on the nutrition analysis, design and implementation of integrated nutrition and food security initiatives in our humanitarian responses, support on capacity strengthening for Plan international staff, lead review of impacts of the nutrition interventions, and support the strengthening of Plan’s representation at the food security and nutrition working groups and clusters. You will also support reporting and documentation processes and policy influencing in relation to food security and nutrition at Plan International.

The Requirements

• Demonstrable experience working in a broad range of humanitarian crises in a number of different contexts.
• Demonstrable experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of integrated food security and nutrition projects.
• Experience in building and strengthening technical expertise on food security and nutrition in humanitarian work
• Knowledge of relevant international humanitarian standards, approaches (especially integrated approaches), and codes of conduct.
• Proven experience working in food security and livelihoods programming, especially from a girls’ rights perspective in a variety of contexts including acute & chronic food insecurity crisis
• Ability to network effectively and build good working relationships with colleagues both within Plan International as well as in peer agencies.
• Good working knowledge of key humanitarian donors, for example, WFP, USAID, DFAT, GAC, FCDO, and DGECHO amongst others.
• Knowledge of major humanitarian, recovery and development challenges and issues, specifically strategies for hunger and malnutrition reduction.
• Proven representational and coordination skills
• Strong analytical and report-writing skills
• Committed to actively upholding Plan International’s vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.