Provincial Coordinator – Nutritionist Zimbabwe

Essential Job Duties/Scope of Work:

The primary function of the Provincial Coordinator – Nutritionist is to coordinate all Nutrition Strategic Objective activities while taking direction from the Lead Nutrition Specialist. The Provincial Coordinator – Nutritionist will work closely with the consortium members, especially the SBCC/Nutrition Advisor and SBC/Communications Officer and IMC staff: Lead Nutrition Specialist, WASH Officer, Finance Administration Officer, and District Activity managers.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supervise program activities in four Districts? Ensure close coordination and linkages of the Nutrition Strategic Objective interventions with livelihoods and agriculture activities.
• Carry out activities per detailed implementation plan
• Coordinate requests for inputs with logistics, technical, and finance counterparts
• Provide day to day program oversight and management for the Nutrition Strategic Objective within districts
• Verify program milestones and draft reports for the donor and program management to facilitate program decision making and monitoring

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in nutrition and 5+ years of relevant work experience or a master’s degree in nutrition or public health and 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Program development and management experience in a Humanitarian and/or emergency situation required
• Ability to train national staff on state of the art approaches to nutrition response in emergencies
• Demonstrate analytical and conceptual skills to plan projects, develop timetables for agreed activities and oversee staff activities? Strong organizational and supervisory skills? Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently
• Extremely flexible, and have the ability to cope with stressful situations and frustration.
• Creativity and the ability to work with limited resources.
• Excellent decision making skills.
• Experience of proactively identifying and addressing issues
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively present information and respond appropriately to questions from senior managers in the field and HQ, counterparts, senior government leaders and other donors
• Ability to speak, read, write, analyze and interpret, technical and non-technical in English

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