Technical Advisor, Nutrition

Background: 

ELEVATE Nutrition (Enhancing Local Efforts for Vital, Transformative, and Evidence-Based Nutrition), funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is a five-year cooperative agreement led by FHI 360 in collaboration with Action Against Hunger, Bixal, CNFA: Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture, GEMNet-Health, and Oxford Policy Management. The project aims to advance local implementation of high-quality nutrition programs and policies to improve the nutritional status of women and children, particularly in the first 1,000 days. ELEVATE Nutrition will drive efforts to sustain USAID technical leadership in nutrition, enhance locally driven nutrition programs and policies, and boost innovative efforts to share learning and transfer knowledge. ELEVATE Nutrition has active programs in Ghana, Mozambique, and Senegal, and is expected to open additional programs over the life of the activity. We seek a technical advisor to provide support to the country programs, particularly the French-speaking country programs.   

Job Summary:

The technical advisor will provide nutrition technical guidance, leadership, and support in multi-sectoral nutrition to ELEVATE Nutrition’s programs in Francophone countries, currently Senegal. S/he will also support other country programs and the global technical portfolio, as needed. S/he should have a demonstrated technical understanding of and experience providing technical assistance to multi-sectoral nutrition programming and be proficient in speaking, reading, and writing in French. S/he will build and maintain collaborative relationships with FHI 360 country office counterparts, USAID and local government counterparts. In collaboration with other ELEVATE Nutrition technical and program staff, s/he will provide leadership for the technical aspects of country program design and start up and provide technical assistance and capacity strengthening to support program quality across the country programs. S/he will work with the capacity strengthening; monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning; and other technical teams to support ELEVATE Nutrition’s goal to advance evidence-based, local efforts for improving nutrition outcomes. S/he will also liaise with the knowledge management team to ensure that country learning is documented and shared. The technical advisor may supervise one or more staff members on the country programs team.  

Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

Program Design and Implementation 

• Collaborate with USAID Missions, country stakeholders, and FHI 360 country offices to design tailored, context-specific country program approaches, develop initial country work plans and budgets, and support country staff recruitment 

• Support ELEVATE Nutrition’s chiefs of party and country-based ELEVATE Nutrition teams to develop annual country work plans and budgets 

• Contribute to overall project work plan, budgeting, and reporting 

• Represent ELEVATE Nutrition to …