Emergency Nutrition Coordinator Consultant

Background

FHI 360 is harnessing its four decades of development experience to provide humanitarian assistance in crisis-affected countries. FHI 360’s Crisis Response Team (CRT) meets the urgent needs of people whose lives are jeopardized by conflict, disaster or displacement. FHI 360’s Crisis Response Team is looking to expand operations and technical programming in Chernivtsi, Ukraine to respond to the current crisis. FHI 360 is responding to the conflict by intervening in the health, nutrition, protection, and WASH sectors.

Scope of Work

For this mission, the FHI 360 Crisis Response Team requires the services of a highly skilled Emergency Nutrition Consultant to support HQ and Country Office staff by leading the in-country the start-up of emergency nutrition activities to build technical capacity among national and international organizations implementing health programs in target geographies. The consultant will conduct field-based capacity assessments of the selected partners, identify capacity needs, design the modalities to develop capacity, and provide on-site and remote support to implement activities. The consultant will provide implementing partners with the appropriate tools and resources to continue their emergency nutrition implementation and quality assurance/improvement of activities post-consultancy. While in-country, the consultant will also support FHI 360 HQ and field teams identify nutrition activities that FHI 360 can directly implement and contribute to project proposal design.

Specific Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Attend nutrition and food security meetings and meet with implementing partners to understand nutritional challenges and best practices
• Conduct emergency nutrition capacity assessments for identified partners (organization and individuals)
• Conduct rapid community assessments in selected areas to identify critical nutrition needs focusing on IYCF-E and maternal nutrition
• Liaise with the nutrition cluster and to collect emergency nutrition tools including recording and reporting tools and requirements
• Liaise with UNICEF, WFP, and supported partners to ensure partners understand and arrange for a continued pipeline of nutrition commodities.
• Identify technical and geographic gaps in emergency nutrition coverage where FHI 360 would have a strategic advantage in direct implementation.
• Coordinate with Health, WASH and Protection leads to identify integration opportunities for a medium, long-term integration with the emergency nutrition response
• Contribute and support to the technical design of FHI 360 emergency nutrition proposal including budget inputs.
• Support other tasks provided by the Crisis Response Team

Deliverables:

• Lead the start-up of nutrition-related activities in the areas of intervention**
• Implement programmatic strategy for the nutrition sector**
• Produce draft proposal technical narrative, budget inputs, and implementation plan for nutrition programming **
• Assessment report and recommendations
• Finalized list of areas and partners to support
• Capacity development plans, tools and materials
• Development and adaptation of emergency nutrition tools.**

Location of Work

Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Important Note: Applicant should research COVID-19 measures and the associated risks of this location before submitting an application.

Travel

Level of Effort: 2 Months, up to 40 hours per week

Period of Engagement: April – June 2022

Travel and accommodations are not provided

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or its International Equivalent, experience in Nutrition, Public Health or related technical field
• At least 8 years of professional experience in designing, implementing, or supporting nutrition programming, specifically within a humanitarian context
• Experience establishing and leading successful startup operations/projects in complex emergencies situations
• Expertise in addressing acute malnutrition, use of Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) and Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF)-E, maternal nutrition, supplementation and micronutrients
• Strong technical skills in multi-sectoral nutrition programming, including health, WASH and food security are preferred

• Prior experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency or related industry experience

• Sensitivity to cultural diversity and understanding of the political, contextual, and ethical issues in assigned area

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English

Evaluation Criteria:

Proposals will be evaluated in accordance with the following criteria:

• Expertise in humanitarian nutrition programming, specifically with first-phase response operations
• Knowledge of humanitarian nutrition initiatives and implementation
• Consultancy experience with similar organizations