Job Description

Title: Senior Public Health Nutrition Specialist

Company Name: Max Foundation Bangladesh

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Advanced university degree in one of the disciplines relevant to the following areas:
∎ Nutrition and food science
∎ Nutrition sciences
∎ Public Health and Nutrition
∎ Public Health major Public Health Nutrition
∎ Or any other relevant degree from any recognized university of home or aboard.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 8 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Name of program MaxNutriWASH
∎ Contract Duration Up to March 2021
∎ Job type Contractual
∎ Job Classification Mid Level
∎ Location of job Based in Dhaka (at least 50 % field visits)
∎ Report to Program Manager, MaxNutriWASH
∎ Fulltime.
∎ Open ended, subject to annual renewal (based on annual performance evaluation report).
∎ Six (06) months` probation starting from the joining date.
∎ Reporting to: MaxNutriWASH Program Manager, Max Foundation Bangladesh Country Office.
∎ Job Location: Based in Dhaka (at least 50 % field visits).

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Job Purpose
∎
∎ This position will provide technical oversight, strategic direction, guidance and support to the MaxNutriWASH Program for the implementation of nutrition component related program activities at national, divisional and sub-divisional level. S/he is accountable for formulation and design strategies, planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of nutrition component under MaxNutriWASH to ensure overall efficiency and effectiveness of the program management, delivery and accomplishment of nutrition component goal as well as overall program goal and objectives. S/he is also accountable for ensuring that all aspects of nutrition component promote gender equality, and for collaborating to mainstream key features across all related sectors of Bangladesh. This Position is also required to ensure technical excellence and quality of nutrition project design and implementation and capacity building of PNGOs staff and stakeholders. S/he will also lead the process of developing/reviewing evidence-based related training materials, community and school level education materials, performance standards and supervisory systems needed for MaxNutriWASH nutrition component. Position will be technical interface with government counterpart at national, district and sub-divisional level for the project to identify issues in terms of setting priorities and getting agenda for advocacy.
∎ Key End Results:
∎ Provision of coordination and technical support to MaxNutriWASH nutrition component/projects strengthening.
∎ Timely analysis of nutrition data, input, support and collaboration to the Situation Analysis and its periodic update made for effective program/project planning, development and management.
∎ Knowledge management effectively promoted through drafting/finalizing key nutrition outcomes, documents and reports, sharing good practice, lessons learned, and ensuring knowledge/information exchange.
∎ Quality of gender and governance sensitive nutrition projects/programmes effectively promoted, and coherence, synergy and value added to program management process through results-based management.
∎ Nutrition work plan , activities and budget formulated, implemented and monitored, ensuring alignment with the defined program strategies and approaches, with special attention to under five children stunting, 1000 days and mother and adolescent nutrition.
∎ Max Foundation Country goals effectively promoted through advocacy and policy dialogue in the Nutrition sector.
∎ Effective communication and networking achieved through partnership and collaboration, ensuring that gender-specific feature and requite issues are highlighted.
∎ Job responsibility:
∎ 1. Providing specialist and technical support on Nutrition:
∎ Creates substantive knowledge of nutrition and stunting, adolescents and mother nutrition as well as generation nutrition behaviour change in MaxNutriWASH program area, assesses technical assistance needs in these areas and advises on the suitability of programs and related interventions to meet these needs;
∎ Addresses Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), policy issues of Government of Bangladesh (GoB) and GoB service providers and provides substantive inputs to facilitate policy dialogue among the institutions and departments;
∎ Provides functional leadership and inputs into the design and formulation of child nutrition and stunting programs and interventions translating Max Foundation and MaxNutriWASH mandate and strategic priorities into local interventions;
∎ Responding to Government plans and priorities. Ensures consultation with national and local governments and other stakeholders, including beneficiaries, for program activities implementation;
∎ Coordinating project activities with the other governance initiatives, nutrition clustered , platform and integrating where applicable, successful approaches and lessons learned, methodologies and tools for achieving the goals of the assigned program;
∎ Establishing effective linkages with other Max Foundation funded projects/programs and with other initiatives in the sector with a view to developing substantive partnerships and generating synergies;
∎ Develop innovative ideas and approaches for nutrition program management and support to develop partnership with new PNGOs and INGOs on nutrition programs;
∎ Develop strategy, operational plan, budget for the large component against the plan, manuals, action plans, guidelines etc. for MaxNutriWASH program and Max Foundation's programs/ projects to implement health program components like safe motherhood, menstrual hygiene, SRHR, Gender etc. regarding rural and urban contexts;
∎ High level contribution to develop and implement Max Healthy Village approach in close collaboration with MF's senior management team and external consultant team;
∎ Prepare/ give input in project proposals, concept notes and manage external parties to conduct of research/studies;
∎ Meet the donor compliance and coordinate with Finance, MEL, Max Payment by Results (Max-PbR), Internal Audit, Fund raising team; and
∎ Lead to develop nutrition action plan for MaxNutriWASH program;
∎ 2. Work with existing and new partner organisations (PNGOs):
∎ Coaches and supervises PNGOs, program/project staff especially Baby WASH and Nutrition staffs to operation and management of nutrition component of MaxNutriWASH program;
∎ Visit current and new potential local partner organisation (PNGOs) frequently ( 50% time in the field);
∎ Ensure quality of nutrition program progress in line with Max Foundation's requirement;
∎ Support local partner organisations (PNGOs) for performing baseline, collecting data of others relating to nutrition; and
∎ 3. Capacity Building:
∎ To develop policy and program guidance, training module/manual and tools to build capacity of NGOs on child health, stunted growth, nutrition, SRHR, Safe Motherhood, Gender quality and facilitate PNGOs to develop Gender Action Plan (GAP)
∎ Conduct training/ provide technical support to conduct training for staff member and for different stakeholders/PNGO; and
∎ Support local partners to be best-in-class in relevant programs with PbR approach.
∎ 4. Collaboration and Networking:
∎ Collaboration and networking with national level pear organization working for child nutrition, stunted growth, adolescent and mother nutrition.
∎ Interact with Government and other partners, NGOs, UN and bilateral agencies in the different stages of nutrition programme/project implementation. Provide technical support and guidance on appropriate technical, institutional capacity building measures where necessary as per demand;
∎ Technical support is provided to government and non-government organisations at al stage of the program coordination, including capacity building of government personnel as well other stakeholders;
∎ Building effective partnership and collaboration and maintained for advocacy, technical cooperation, program coordination, information sharing and knowledge networking.
∎ 5. Behavioural Change Communication:
∎ Make collaboration among others specialized area of MaxNutriWASH to implement MaxNutriWASH Behaviour Change;
∎ Lead to implement and conduct effectiveness study of existing IEC/SBBC effectively and efficiently relating to nutrition to achieve the MaxNutriWASH Behaviour Change Communication objectives;
∎ Lead to develop new IEC/SBBC materials and implement the developed materials as per filed requirement.
∎ 6. Reporting, monitoring, research and study:
∎ Analyse reports of partner organisations;
∎ Prepare monthly, quarterly, Bi-annual and annual nutrition component performance report;
∎ Compile and submit quality nutrition program reports and meet reporting requirements and deadlines;
∎ Support MEL and Max-PbR team to incorporate nutrition indicators, definition of indicators, analysis of nutrition data , baseline study , conduct regular monitoring and evaluation of activities; and
∎ Initiate research/study to investigate special issues, capture the impact and provide technical support to MEL to conduct research.
∎ Provide technical support to Program Manager to prepare high standard annual report and donor report;
∎ 7. Others:
∎ Work jointly with other Project Managers and officers and practice team building approach;
∎ Represent and uphold MFBD, its programs and interests;
∎ Support Senior Program Manager in program, partner management, fundraising and reporting as and when required;
∎ Other job responsibilities that come due to new programs and Max Foundation; and
∎ Respect and follow MF's values, operational approach, financial and administrative procedures.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Work Experience:
∎ General: The candidate should have at least eight (08) years' experience in a development organization of which at least three (03) years in a senior position of Nutrition specialist/manager in any international /or reputed national NGO.
∎ Specialization: Experience should cover public Health & Nutrition, child and mother nutrition, adolescent nutrition, child stunting, generational nutrition behavior, nutrition education, nutritional epidemiology etc.
∎ Language Proficiency:
∎ Fluency in English and Bangla as native language.
∎ Computer Skill:
∎ Microsoft Office
∎ WHO Anthropometric data analysis software
∎ Must know both Bangla and English typing
∎ Microsoft outlook
∎ Nationality Bangladeshi
∎ Desirable requirements:
∎ Experience in emergency situations.
∎ Work experience in rural and urban context.
∎ Work experience with integrated approach like WASH-Nutrition-SRHR nexus.
∎ Work experience on social franchising.
∎ Ability to motivate and develop others
∎ Behavioural flexibility and emotionally intelligent with strong logical and analytical skills
∎ Ability to coach and mentor multi-sectorial partners
∎ Stress management

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Benefits: Two (02) Festival Bonuses equivalent one-month gross salary.
∎ Other admissible benefits as per Organization's policy.

Application Deadline: June 6, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Max Foundation Bangladesh
∎ Business : Max Foundation (MF), a Dutch INGO established in 2004, fights child mortality with an integrated approach, consisting of WASH, safe motherhood, reproductive health and stunted growth prevention. Max Foundation has been implementing child health programs in Bangladesh since 2005. Max Foundation aims at reducing child mortality in the most cost effective way.

Category: NGO/Development