Nutrition Facilitator

Overview of position

• Given the dire humanitarian situation and needs, the Client supports a wide range of health and nutrition responses across Yemen. This ranges from preparedness and reporting to the immediate needs of responding to the risk of famine, disease epidemics/pandemics (ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, cholera, diphtheria, and measles among other potential outbreaks), to preservation of the collapsing health system at all levels.
• The food security situation in Yemen is alarming with the country at the brink of famine. Based on the recent Integrated Phase Classification – Acute Malnutrition (IPC-AMN) released in March 2022, the acute food insecurity and malnutrition situation in Yemen has deteriorated further in 2022, with approximately 2.2 million children under the age of five, including 538,000 severely malnourished, and about 1.3 million PLW projected to suffer from acute malnutrition over the course of 2022. The severity increases dramatically in the projection period for both food insecurity and acute malnutrition, with 86 districts moving to higher IPC phases, with 82 moving from Phase 3 to Phase 4. In addition, 17.4 million people (IPC Phase 3 and above) in need of assistance as of now are projected to increase to 19 million from June to the end of the year. 31,000 people facing extreme hunger levels (IPC Phase 5 Catastrophe) now are expected to increase to 161,000 by June 2022. Out of the 43 zones (333 districts) analyzed, 40 districts (12 percent) are classified as Critical (IPC Phase 4) and 199 (60 percent) as Serious (IPC Phase 3), with the remaining 94 (28 percent) as Alert (IPC Phase 2). In the projection period, similar to food insecurity, there is a dramatic increase in severity, with 72 districts moving from Serious to Critical, making it 108 districts (32 percent) and 66 districts moving from Alert to Serious, making it a total of 193 districts (58 percent).
• The primary objective of client nutrition programs in Yemen is to prevent malnutrition in all its forms across the life cycle: early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence. The client advocates for and supports policies, strategies, and programs that prevent malnutrition and ensure healthy growth for infants and children. These policies, strategies, and programs aim to protect, promote and support recommended breastfeeding practices for infants and young children from birth; promote and support age-appropriate complementary foods and feeding practices in the first two years of life, and support the use of micronutrient supplements to prevent all forms of malnutrition in early childhood.
• Therefore, the Client in Yemen approach to scaling up preventative & Therapeutic nutrition programming is guided by the conviction that reducing inequities is right in both principle and practice aiming at building resilient services, especially in high-risk areas where inequities prevent the most marginalized children and women from having access and adequate nutrition services and practices through the multisectoral accelerated plan.

Role objectives

• The Nutrition Facilitator will have a broad role, but his/her main role will be to provide a facilitative role in ensuring the delivery and monitoring of nutrition programmes in various locations (GHOs and districts) across Yemen. In addition, the role and tasks will be adapted as required based on the location and needs within a specific location.
• The functions below are cognizant of the existing Nutrition Section Program structures in YCO. Therefore, the Facilitators recruited are expected to work alongside staff and structures already in place and play a facilitative and supportive role across all key nutrition programme functions

Planning, Coordination, and Partnerships

• Support with multisectoral micro-planning at all system levels including at the community level.
• Support FO coordination efforts with other UN agencies and NGOs in delivering coordinated services.
• Support FO to plan for and conduct monthly/quarterly progress meetings with IPs (Government and NGO partners).
• Participate in Nutrition Cluster Coordination meetings to improve links between the cluster and the YCO nutrition programme at all levels.
• Support FO staff with any of the Nutrition Programme Cooperation Agreements (PCA’s) at the field level.
• Support FO Nutrition staff on the processing and follow-up on nutrition-related payments.
• Assist the nutrition officers in the verification of direct payments, verification of beneficiary or payee lists, and any other related tasks.

Nutrition technical programme support:

• Provide support across all nutrition programme areas as required including CMAM, IYCF, CHNVs, and micronutrient programs.
• Support and monitor nutrition capacity-building activities across all nutrition programme areas.
• Support the supervision and monitoring of nutrition-related activities. This should be the main task of the facilitators.

Project reporting

• Nutrition information management, assessments, and reporting
• In collaboration with Nutrition, Information Officer supports the submission of timely and quality nutrition-related information through DHOs, GHO, and partners.
• Participate in and support regular nutrition assessments if needed.
• Support information management systems including DHIS-2 as necessary.
• Tracking and archiving the capacity-building activities and supervision reports for the partners and TPM
• Participate in and support nutrition-related program evaluations
• Deliverables: Ensure quality of service provision through:

1-Monthly nutrition progress report based on agreed-upon parameters and indicators

2-Monthly stock reports at HFs, districts, and governorate levels

3-Monthly monitoring reports.

4-Other reports in line with work plan key tasks articulated in the scope of work (includes donor reports, reports)

5-Real time flagging of issues (e.g., nutrition supply stock-outs, pending payments or accountabilities, etc.)

6-Final consultancy report***.***

Key competencies

• Core values
• Commitment
• Diversity and inclusion
• Integrity
• Core competencies
• Communication
• Working with people
• Drive for results
• Planning and organizing skills

Team management

N/A

Further information

Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply