Tanzania Senior Nutrition Coordinator/Africa Regional VAS M/E Advisor - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Helen Keller International (HKI) is a non-governmental organization whose mission is to save the sight and lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged by combating the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition. We do this by establishing programs based on evidence and research in vision, health and nutrition.

HKI invites applications for the position of Tanzania Senior Nutrition Coordinator/Africa Regional Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) Monitoring and Evaluation (M/E) Advisor, based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Scope of Position:

Tanzania Senior Nutrition Coordinator responsibilities include:

• Ensure effective project planning, management and implementation by the HKI Tanzania Nutrition Team to achieve the objectives agreed to in grants and contracts for HKI Tanzania’s nutrition and child survival projects.
• Provide technical expertise to the HKI Tanzania program and collaborating partners in nutrition, behavior change communication (BCC), training, facilitation and curriculum development.
• Serve as lead liaison with government officials, international and non-governmental organizations, technical advisory groups and other in nutrition and child survival.
• Lead the development of all materials/tools for BCC, training, budgeting/planning and for any other requirements.
• Design and oversee training and capacity development workshops for nutrition and child survival within HKI and at the district, regional and national level.
• Develop concept papers, proposals and donor reports and document HKI’s experiences in nutrition and child survival.

Africa Regional VAS M/E Advisor responsibilities include:

• Provide technical support and leadership to Africa country offices implementing VAS programs in collaboration with the regional and deputy regional directors and Headquarters program staff.
• Ensure all aspects of VAS program planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation are in line with grant requirements. Particular focus will be on monitoring and evaluation to inform country programs’ moving to goal of universal coverage.
• Ensure that the quality, impact, scale and cost-effectiveness of HKI’s VAS programs meet standards.
• Take lead on consolidating country reporting into regional reports to donors and for internal audiences.
• Represent HKI at relevant regional and international meetings.
• Maintain and further the Agency’s international role in VAS by assisting country offices to document and publish/present relevant programmatic findings and lessons learned.

Requirements:

• Doctoral degree in the field of nutrition or public health and at least 7 years related experience, including strong quantitative analytic skills, ideally including development and management of nutrition programs, especially those related to micronutrients.
• Strong technical knowledge of nutrition programs in the developing world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa including demonstrated ability to track and disseminate new developments in the field.
• Outstanding analytic skills.
• 2 years of work experience in the areas of training, curriculum and BCC materials development.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills in English; Kiswahili an advantage.
• Proven ability to lead, conceptualize, develop, plan and manage programs.
• Proven ability to supervise, impart knowledge, facilitate and train.
• Computer literate in use of statistical software, spreadsheets and word-processing.
• Experience in publishing papers and writing for scientific journals.
• Ability to undertake regional and local travel (approximately 25-40%).

Terms of Employment:

• Two-year contract renewable upon mutual agreement.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should submit: (1) cover letter; (2) current curriculum vitae in English; (3) a short writing sample (2-3 pages) in English, to Ms. Dora Panagides (Deputy Regional Director, East Central and Southern Africa) dpanagides@hki.org, with a copy to Human Resources at hkihr@hki.org. Please note
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Closing Date: Open until filled