Roles and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with the national Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group, ensuring alignment of work and priorities, effective communication, reporting and engagement between the levels.
• Supervise the sub-national Cluster/ Sector/ Working Groups coordination teams.
• Ensure appropriate coordination and build partnerships with all relevant sector stakeholders at sub-national level including government counterparts and national authorities, local, national, and international organizations, other AoRs/ Clusters/Sectors/ Working Groups and affected populations as appropriate.
• Contribute to the planning and implementation and approval (as per SOP) of needs assessment and analysis (RNA, SMART), including contributing to multi-sectoral needs assessments and joint analysis of need, at national and sub-national levels.
• Analyse needs assessment data and work collaboratively with the national and sub-national Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group partners to create analytical products, including leading the NIS- Nutrition information system working group.
• Ensure all programme delivery modalities (in-kind, cash, voucher, and services) are given equal consideration in the strategic response planning and establish and implement systematic measures for supporting their consideration and use.
• Ensure that sub-national Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group response planning is regularly updated according to evolving needs and that it establishes indicators by which performance of the sub-national Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group can be measured.
• Engage with OCHA and other AoRs/ Clusters/ Sectors/ Working Groups to contribute to the development of the HRP, representing the concerns of the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group at sub-national level.
• Support partners’ resource mobilization to promote the effective functioning of the sub-national Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group and its response.
• Monitor, evaluate and report on the coverage, equity, quality, and progress of the response against the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group strategy, priorities and agreed results at sub-national level.
• Contribute to gap and coverage analysis to identify spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps and coverage of the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group humanitarian response.
• Monitor the sub-national Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group’s adherence to IASC cluster approach principles, relevant humanitarian and sectoral agreements, standards, initiatives, and guidelines and encourage partners to make improvements.
• Be accountable to the affected population by establishing inclusive and consultative feedback mechanisms and encouraging the involvement of affected population in the response.
• Ensure the inclusion of cross cutting issues (age, child protection, disability, gender, gender-based violence (GBV) mitigation and response and HIV & AIDS) in sub-national Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group activities throughout the HPC.
• Minimum Requirements:

  Education:

  • An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: nutrition, public health, nutritional epidemiology, global/international health and nutrition, health/nutrition research, policy and/or management, health sciences, humanitarian assistance and development or another health-related social science field.

  Experience:

  • A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in one of the following areas is required: nutrition, public health, nutrition planning and management, or maternal, infant and child health/nutrition care. Relevant experience in health/nutrition programme/project development and management in a UN system agency or organization is considered an asset.
  • Experience of working in the humanitarian coordination system is required.

  Language:

  • Fluency in English and local language of the duty station is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.