Technical Officer III, 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. 

Job Summary: 

The Technical Officer will provide technical support to ELEVATE Nutrition’s multi-sectoral nutrition global and country-based activities. The Technical Officer III will support the technical teams to design and implement activities, provide technical assistance to global implementing partners and/or ELEVATE Nutrition country teams, draw out content for knowledge management and dissemination efforts, and support learning initiatives. They will contribute to the development of project reports and technical products, among other technical responsibilities. Technical areas may include capacity strengthening, diet quality, wasting, social and behavior change, governance, early childhood development, and cross-cutting initiatives such as the US Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan. They will work with the capacity strengthening; monitoring, evaluation, and research; and knowledge management and learning technical teams to support ELEVATE Nutrition’s goal to advance evidence-based, local efforts for improving nutrition outcomes. A successful Technical Officer will have the required qualifications, a dedication to learning, commitment to quality programming, strong attention to detail and organization, and preference for working in a dynamic team environment with colleagues across multiple cultures, languages, and time zones.   

Responsibilities: 

The Technical Officer provides technical support and guidance to technical teams during the development and implementation of project activities. Responsibilities include the following. 

• Provides guidance to technical team members and assists people and teams to develop, refine, and implement technical activities.  

• Supports technical capacity strengthening for project team and partners. 

• Provides support to ensure technical groups function efficiently, e.g., helps break down work into steps, set up meetings, shape agendas, take notes, and track follow up action items. 

• Conducts searches and summarizes findings of published literature on relevant technical issues.  

• Develops/writes technical briefs, …