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Posted on 04 Oct, 2022
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  • Vacancy id: VAC-8516 Nutrition Facilitators
  • Job title: Health and Nutrition Facilitator 
  • Location: Sana’ a 
  • Apply by: 19th-Oct-2022
  • Start date:  ASAP
  • Number of vacancies: 1

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A)    Background/Justification: 

Given the dire humanitarian situation and needs, Client supports a wide range of health and nutrition responses across Yemen. This ranges from preparedness and reporting to the immediate needs of responding to the risk of famine, disease epidemics/pandemics (ongoing COVID19 pandemic, cholera, diphtheria and measles among other potential outbreaks), to preservation of the collapsing health system at all levels.  
The food security situation in Yemen is alarming with the country at the brink of famine. Based on the recent Integrated Phase Classification – Acute Malnutrition (IPC-AMN) released in March 2022, the acute food insecurity and malnutrition situation in Yemen has deteriorated further in 2022, with approximately 2.2 million children under the age of five, including 538,000 severely malnourished, and about 1.3 million PLW projected to suffer from acute malnutrition over the course of 2022. The severity increases dramatically in the projection period for both food insecurity and acute malnutrition, with 86 districts moving to higher IPC phases, with 82 moving from Phase 3 to Phase 4. In addition, 17.4 million people (IPC Phase 3 and above) in need of assistance as of now are projected to increase to 19 million from June to the end of the year. 31,000 people facing extreme hunger levels (IPC Phase 5 Catastrophe) now are expected to increase to 161,000 by June 2022. Out of the 43 zones (333 districts) analyzed, 40 districts (12 per cent) are classified as Critical (IPC Phase 4) and 199 (60 per cent) as Serious (IPC Phase 3), with the remaining 94 (28 per cent) as Alert (IPC Phase 2). In the projection period, similar to food insecurity, there is a dramatic increase in severity, with 72 districts moving from Serious to Critical, making it 108 districts (32 per cent) and 66 districts moving from Alert to Serious, making it a total of 193 districts (58 per cent).
Primary objective of Client nutrition programs in Yemen is to prevent malnutrition in all its forms across the life cycle: throughout early childhood, middle childhood and adolescence. Client  advocates for and supports policies, strategies and programs that prevent malnutrition and ensure healthy growth for infants and children. These policies, strategies and programs aim to protect, promote and support recommended breastfeeding practices for infants and young children from birth; promote and support age-appropriate complementary foods and feeding practices in the first two years of life; and support the use of micronutrient supplements to prevent all forms of malnutrition in early childhood.
Therefore, Client  Yemen approach to scale up preventative & Therapeutic nutrition programming is guided by the conviction that reducing inequities is right in both principle and practice aiming at building resilient services, especially in high-risk areas where inequities prevent the most marginalized children and women from having access and adequate nutrition services and practices through multisectoral accelerated plan. 
Client has already initiated a multi-sectoral accelerated response to addressing the deteriorating nutrition situation following the release of the IPC Acute Malnutrition analysis. This has supported closer interaction and collaboration with other sections internally and thus the identification and acceleration of nutrition related interventions in WASH, C4D, education, child protection and social policy in priority districts. The client leverages its comparative advantage as a multisectoral agency to ensure a timely and coordinated response to prevent and treat malnutrition in humanitarian contexts, including via services by the nutrition, health, water and sanitation, education, and social protection programs. 
Justification 
Despite the significant investments and scale up of nutrition programmes in Yemen, coverage gaps remain across all programme areas especially preventative measure and system strengthening. The client and the partners have activated a multi-sectoral acceleration and scale up response to the impending nutrition crisis. Client is scaling-up support to the poorest, excluded and most marginalized households across all of Yemen’s 22 governorates and 333 districts based at greatest risk of malnutrition and having children with SAM. Bottlenecks and gaps identified include local insecurity, import restrictions on supplies, limited number of health facilities and health workers including Community Health and Nutrition Volunteers and unpaid health workers. These factors contribute to the low coverage of services in addition to inadequate follow up of nutrition programmes particularly at the lower levels (district and community). These have all been compounded by the recent introduction of the decentralization strategy and risk pivot measures which has placed a heavy burden on Field Office teams. 
There is an immediate need to support and facilitate Field Offices to ensure more efficient delivery of the acceleration plans of nutrition and strengthening the component of monitoring of the field implementation in respective GHO’s and districts through the recruitment of Nutrition Facilitators. It is anticipated that this will meet immediate service delivery gaps particularly in accessing and supporting lower levels of programme implementation. 
Therefore, is a continued need to support and facilitate Field Offices to ensure more efficient delivery of nutrition services. This is even more apparent during this period of acceleration to ensure FO’s implement the multi-sectoral actions articulated in their FO multi-sectoral accelerated nutrition response plans. Additional Nutrition Facilitators are required to support FO’s liaise with and work alongside respective GHO’s and districts especially with the challenges on the access for the nutrition field staff. It is anticipated that this will meet immediate service delivery gaps particularly in accessing and supporting lower levels of programme implementation. 

Objectives of the Assignment 

The objectives of the assignment are aligned to facilitating the implementation of the nutrition interventions through the recruitment of five Nutrition Facilitators. It is proposed that each field office will have one nutrition facilitator. 

B)    Description of Tasks:   
The Nutrition Facilitator will have a broad role, but his/her main role will be to provide a facilitative role in ensuring the delivery and monitoring of nutrition programmes in various locations (GHO’s and districts) across Yemen. In addition, the role and tasks will be adapted as required based on the location and needs within a specific location. 
The functions below are cognizant of the existing Nutrition Section Program structures in YCO. Therefore, the Facilitators recruited are expected to work alongside staff and structures already in place and play a facilitative and supportive role across all key nutrition programme functions. 
 
Planning, Coordination and Partnerships 

  • Support with multisectoral micro-planning at all system levels including at community level. 
  • Support FO coordination efforts with other UN agencies and NGO’s in delivering coordinated services.
  • Support FO to plan for and conduct monthly/quarterly progress meetings with IP’s (Government and NGO partners). 
  • Participate in Nutrition Cluster Coordination meeting to improve links between the cluster and YCO nutrition programme at all levels.  
  • Support FO staff with any of Nutrition Programme Cooperation Agreements (PCA’s) at field level. 
  • Support FO Nutrition staff on the processing and follow up on nutrition related payments. 
  • Assist the nutrition officers in the verification of direct payments, verification of beneficiary or payee lists and any other related tasks.

Nutrition technical programme support 

  • Provide support across all nutrition programme areas as required including CMAM, IYCF, CHNVs, and micronutrient programs. 
  • Support and monitor nutrition capacity building activities across all nutrition programme areas. 
  • Support the supervision and monitoring of nutrition related activities. This should be the main task of the facilitators. 

Nutrition information management, assessments, and reporting 

  • In collaboration with Nutrition Information Officer support the submission of timely and quality nutrition related information through DHO’s, GHO’s and partners.  
  • Participate in and support regular nutrition assessments if needed. 
  • Support information management systems including DHIS-2 as necessary. 
  • Tracking and archiving the capacity building activities and supervision reports for the partners and TPM
  • Participate in and support nutrition related program evaluations. 

Nutrition supplies management  

  • Support Nutrition Programme staff and respective GHOs and DHOs on the proper planning and distribution of the nutrition supplies. 
  • Provide monthly updates on nutrition supply stock levels at HFs, district, and governorate levels to ensure intact supply chain system and ensure the contingency stock at all levels. 
  • Conduct at least one visit per quarter to the nutrition warehouses at the governorates level to all respective GHOs under the FO. 
  • Conduct on the job training for the storekeepers on supply management including storage conditions.   

C)    Deliverables: Ensure quality of service provision through: 

  • Monthly nutrition progress report based on agreed up on parameters and indicators 
  • Monthly stock reports at HFs, districts, and governorate levels. 
  • Monthly monitoring reports. 
  • Other reports in line with work plan key tasks articulated in scope of work (includes donor reports, reports)  
  • Real time flagging of issues (e.g., nutrition supply stock outs, pending payments or accountabilities etc.) 
  • Final consultancy report  

D)    Qualifications, Specialized experience and additional competencies 

 

Essential

Desirable

Qualifications required

  • Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in Medicine, Health Sciences, Public Health, Nutrition, Food Science or social sciences related qualifications.
  • At least five year’s work experience in public health or nutrition related programmes, health and nutrition services delivery in Yemen. 
  • Demonstrated experience in field work especially rural and hard to reach areas.
  • Practical program management experience.
  • Experience in training and development of training materials
  • Experience in report writing in English
  • Strong analytical skills, communication and negotiation skills

Other qualifications

Computer literacy with a full knowledge of Microsoft Office applications

Communications skills, social development oriented

 

Key Competencies

Core values 

  • Commitment 
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Integrity

Core competencies

  • Communication
  • Working with people 
  • Drive for results 
  • Planning and organizing skills

 

Years’ experience

Minimum of 5 years’ experience in public health related work.

Previous work experience in emergencies is an advantage.

Geographical experience

Demonstrated experience in field work especially rural and hard to reach areas and in various locations across Yemen.

    

Languages

Arabic, fluent

English, good working knowledge

    

 

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