Job Description

Title: Nutrition & Entrepreneurship Capacity building Expert

Company Name: Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO)

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Lalmonirhat

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ A master's degree in nutrition or highly related field preferred or Post-graduation degree (M.S.) with 4-years graduation (Hons.) in Nutrition and Food Science or relevant subjects or 4-years graduation (Hon's) in any subject with master's in public health.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 10 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO) started its journey in 1988 with a noble vision to stand in solidarity with the poor and marginalized. Being a peoples` entered organization, ESDO envisioned for a society which will be free from inequality and injustice, a society where no child will cry from hunger and no life will be ruined by poverty. Near about three decades of relentless efforts to make this happen, ESDO has embraced new grounds and opened up new horizons to help the disadvantaged and vulnerable people to bring meaningful and lasting changes in their lives. During this long span, ESDO has adapted with the changing situation and provided the most time-bound services especially for the poor and disadvantaged. A community focused and people centred approach has been adapted by ESDO while consideration was given to the national policy and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as its guiding principle. ESDO is one of the most dynamic organizations expanding its development interventions across 331 upazilas under 51 districts of Bangladesh covering over 10 million poor and vulnerable people.
∎ Presently, we are implementing the Healthy Village in Urban (HVU) programme in Lalmonirhat municipality and six peri-urban Unions within Lalmonirhat district. The HVU program, an innovation developed by Max Foundation, is being implemented by Max Foundation and its partners. The Healthy Village program has been in operation since 2017. Already 409 villages in the South-coastal region of Bangladesh declared as Healthy Villages. With the technical and financial support provided by Max Foundation, we are scaling-up the Healthy Village program to urban areas.
∎ The purpose of the Healthy village in Urban (HVU) is to take our healthy village innovation to the next level of scale by 1) proving that it works in an urban Bangladeshi context and 2) through adoption of the approach or elements of it by key stakeholders. The objectives of HVU are as follows: -
∎ Objective 1: HVU demonstration project in northern Bangladesh, in Lalmonirhat municipality and surrounding peri-urban areas, reaching 157,000 people.
∎ Objective 2: Uptake of the approach by government, other NGOs and donors, and private sector actors. This is expected to have an impact on almost 2 million people (1.88 million) through actions undertaken by those actors, influenced and supported by Max Foundation.
∎ In this backdrop, ESDO would like to hire a contractual staff named as Nutrition & Entrepreneurship Capacity building Experts who will work 48 hours per week to perform the Nutrition and entrepreneurship development related works of the HVU and duty station will be in Lalmonirhat district or ESDO Dhaka Office.
∎ ESDO in partnership with Max Foundation is going to implement the "Healthy Village in Urban" project at Lalmonirhat District. ESDO is inviting applications from interested qualified candidates for the position.
∎ The Nutrition & Entrepreneurship Capacity building Expert is contractual position and senior position (from January 2024 to December 2024) with 48 hours per week to perform the assigned tasks under the Healthy villages in Urban of ESDO. This position may be extended subject to fund availability and satisfaction of performance
∎ The Nutrition & Entrepreneurship Capacity building Expert will report to Focal person of ESDO and work in close collaboration with Project Manager of HVU of ESDO and Max Foundation Bangladesh.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ The Nutrition & Entrepreneurship Capacity building Experts will technically and intellectually guide the healthy village in urban programme activities related to this position. S/he will be work under the supervision of the Focal person of ESDO. S/he will work closely with project manager of ESDO and PM of Max Foundation. Her/his responsibilities include providing advice to the implementation of nutrition components, continuous evaluating the strategy/policy/guideline, updating and implementation of sectoral strategy for Mother and Child Nutrition of Bangladesh Government. She/he will also provide capacity building support to the local entrepreneurs, field staffs of ESDO and stakeholders as well as technical support to entrepreneurship development officer (EDO). She/he also responsible to formulate, conduct and writing research report and publish interesting findings in national and international journal as per organisation protocol. S/he will act as gender focal person of the HVU programme.
∎ Her/his responsibilities also include the representation of UHV at the national level and local level for high-level coordination with the government counterpart, civil society, institutions and other partners, including advocacy for HVU project. As nutrition intervention is integrated into a multi-sectoral approach with WASH, SRHR, education, food security, the Child Growth, she/he in coordination ensures the integration of programme activities with relevant sectors.
∎ One of the most important features of this HVU is the creation of the highest results in a cost-effective manner through innovative tools and techniques and programming. She/he will facilitate to develop innovative strategies for improving the nutritional status of children, regular weight and height measurement for children and visualization of children's weight and height data etc.
∎ Programme/project development
∎ Collaborate closely with the Max Foundation Programme Design and Quality Control team, ESDO project team, and other stakeholders to contribute to needs assessments; analyse and report identified needs, offering clear and detailed recommendations for interventions.
∎ Assist in identifying and designing new interventions and programs through assessments that align with the strategic objectives of the Healthy Village program.
∎ Provide support in building partnerships with private sectors, government agencies, education, and research institutions.
∎ Planning and Implementation
∎ Strategically plan the assigned nutrition activities in alignment with programme strategies, approaches, and the Detailed Implementation Plan and Budget (DIPBR), working closely with ESDO project staff, as well as the Focal and Project Manager of Max Foundation.
∎ Provide assistance to the frontline staff of the HVU project in implementing nutrition activities, ensuring adherence to quality, quantity, and timeline standards.
∎ Ensure that all beneficiaries in the Healthy Village Urban programme area, including under-five children, pregnant women, lactating women, adolescents, and children with disabilities, have access to nutrition services as per project standard.
∎ Conduct anthropometric measurements and ensure proper referral procedures.
∎ Facilitate and organize referrals, ensuring access to government services for children with disabilities.
∎ Collaborate with community clinic workers to implement nutrition activities, particularly in child growth measurement.
∎ Nutrition Governance
∎ Lead to assessment risks regarding nutrition governance in ESDO project area and develop nutrition governance implementation guideline.
∎ Capacity Building
∎ Build capacity of local entrepreneurs with training needs assessment and developing training guideline and then facilitation of the residential training with training manual and tools.
∎ Identify needs and organize training for PNGO project staff, stakeholders, and community leaders.
∎ Develop training curricula, modules/manuals, and tools for nutrition training.
∎ Conduct assessments of the impact of post-training activities.
∎ Maintain a comprehensive database/report of trained personnel.
∎ Build capacity of local entrepreneurs with training needs assessment and developing training guideline and then facilitation of the residential training with training manual and tools.
∎ Provide technical support to establish training institute for the entrepreneurs.
∎ Policy advocacy, networking and communication
∎ Collaborate closely with the MFB Project Manager, ESDO project team, and Max Foundation's advocacy team to develop a child growth and nutrition-specific advocacy framework for the Healthy Village in Urban programme.
∎ Take the lead in strategically engaging and representing the programme with advocacy coalitions, partners, networks, and external groups on topics such as child growth, child stunting, children with disabilities, mother, adolescent, and child nutrition.
∎ Represent the Healthy Village in Urban programme and ESDO at relevant forums, events, and conferences to enhance its capacity for effective policy advocacy.
∎ Advocate, educate, and promote linkages between agriculture, food systems, and health for nutrition through multi-sectoral approaches.
∎ Lead the activation and functioning of the nutrition coordination committee at the district, municipality, Upazila, and union levels.
∎ Contribute to presenting programme results, utilizing program experience, monitoring and evaluation data, to NNP platforms, projects, partners, and other professional colleagues and organizations, both nationally and internationally (IPHN, BNCC, SUN, UN organizations such as UNICEF, FAO, WHO, Gain, and other relevant international NGOs/organizations).
∎ Provide support to facilitate learning, synthesis, documentation, and sharing of experiences/learning related to nutrition within the organization and the sector.
∎ Offer advice and input into HVU project's promotional, media, and communications materials, particularly those related to nutrition, especially child stunting.
∎ Advise for programme quality control
∎ Provide technical support to project team and M&E team to set-out nutrition specific and sensitive appropriate monitoring indicators and tools for data collection, analysis and reporting.
∎ Closely work with Nutrition Expert/Consultant for assisting her/him for developing disability inclusive nutrition and food security guideline and training materials and conduction of the training of the project staffs
∎ Mapping the best practices to be documented with the help of Focal person of ESDO and Max Foundation PM to develop the methodology to collect and documentation and dissemination.
∎ Innovation
∎ Suggest and guiding innovation on approaches, strategies, tools and techniques for reduction of child stunting among U5 children, child growth measurement and monitoring, people's participation, community mobilisation, advocacy, research etc.
∎ Provide strategic advise to develop, pilot and documentation the innovation process and publish the developed innovations in national and international journal.
∎ Private sector engagement
∎ Provide advice to strengthen the HPA Association to make nutrition products more accessible at home.
∎ Advice for the development of protocols for nutrition business.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 45 years
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Age may be relaxed for highly deserving candidates.
∎ At least ten years' experience working in nutrition and WASH/or public health esp. maternal, neonatal and children health in international/national organisation in managerial position.
∎ Females are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.
∎ Effective negotiation and advocacy skills
∎ Effective Conceptual skills & programme design skills
∎ Must have good analytical skill and facilitation skill.
∎ Must have supportive supervision and leadership skills and be a good team player.
∎ Must have good problem solving and decision-making skill.
∎ Proven experience on prepares research proposal and conduct research and disseminate the research.
∎ Experience to write and review article and publish articles in international and national journals.
∎ Proven experience in capacity building support to local entrepreneurs and community groups.
∎ Expert knowledge of a broad range of issues related to food security and nutrition especially both human and clinical nutritional aspect regarding child growth.
∎ Highly developed skills in oral and written communication, demonstrating the ability to communicate complex policy, strategy, and programme issues in a clear, concise, and well-organized manner
∎ Knowledge and experience working with external partners such as other donors, the Scaling Up Nutrition movement, civil society, and/or the private sector.
∎ Excellent inter-personal skills to represent ESDO in external meetings.
∎ Familiar with global and regional international nutrition networks and different nutrition committee at district, upazila and union level
∎ Skills in training and mentoring and developing training materials.
∎ Ability to work within multi-cultural teams.
∎ Flexibility and ability to work under pressure.
∎ Fluent in Banagla and English (speaking and writing)

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ As per program allocation

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 22 Dec 2023

Company Information:
∎ 14 Dec 2023
∎ Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO)
∎ Address : Collegepara (Gobindanagar), Thakurgaon-5100 Bangladesh

Category: NGO/Development

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