Welthungerhilfe recruits 01 Regional Nutrition Advisor

Your responsibilities

• Jointly develop and update WHH’s sector strategy and positioning in line with WHH’s overall strategy
• Enhance WHH positioning on sector level and support WHH positioning on country level: Support the operationalization of WHH’s nutrition strategy (in- country support of country/ project offices)
• Provide technical assistance to WHH’s country programs in West & Central Africa and the Caribbean for the development of regional and country specific strategies and program planning which improve impact on nutrition
• Support the conceptual and strategic development of programs towards improved nutrition (promotion, development and maintenance of subject specific guidelines and minimum requirements for WHH’s programs and projects with a focus on the prevention of all forms of malnutrition)
• Facilitate and support capacity development for country and project offices: Organize workshops and trainings to build staff knowledge and capacity on nutrition within WHH country teams in the region
• Presentation of Welthungerhilfe´s work and own sector relevant experiences to private donors, supporters and members of Welthungerhilfe

Your profile

• A relevant Masters degree (MSc) in Nutrition/Public Health in developing countries
• A minimum of 5 years experience working in nutrition programs in developing countries
• Field experience in the prevention of malnutrition and a strong understanding of nutrition sensitive programming
• Broad knowledge of regional food and nutrition habits, including the social and cultural background
• Familiar with methodologies for conducting a contextual analysis or scoping assessment on nutrition and nutrition surveys (SMART, KAP)
• Excellent inter-personal, communication and facilitation skills
• Skills in training and mentoring
• Ability to work within multi-cultural teams
• Excellent communication and writing skills in French (working language) and English

Our offer

We offer you co-operation in a highly dedicated team and a responsible scope of tasks. Furthermore, we facilitate a flexible organisation of working time as well as a healthy work-life balance. The performance oriented remuneration is based on an in-house salary scheme. Of course, a comprehensive training is also part of our offer. Disabled persons will be considered preferentially in the event of equal qualification.