Micronutrient Initiative Africa Project Manager and Africa Project Officer Jobs

Passionate about developing and implementing solutions for hidden hunger, the Micronutrient Initiative (MI) works in partnership with governments, the private sector and civil society organizations to address micronutrient deficiency and related health and nutrition problems in underserved populations. 

Governed by an international Board of Directors, MI works in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East and reaches people in more than 75 countries.

Currently the MI is seeking applications for the following positions for the new Technical Assistance to Nutrition Project (TAN). 

 

The purpose of the TAN project supported by the British Government (DFID) is to increase and enhance the technical assistance available to SUN (Scaling Up Nutrition movement) countries to help them accelerate the scaling up of nutrition. 

MI’s work on TAN will contribute also to building MI’s N-TEAM (Nutrition-Technical Assistance Mechanism) business model, and will complement other work by MI in the region and countries. 

Priority ‘client’ SUN countries in the region may vary over the life of the TAN project but currently include: Ethiopia; Kenya; Tanzania; Nigeria; Senegal; Burkina Faso; Uganda and Zambia.

Africa Project Manager – Technical Assistance to Nutrition (TAN)
Job #: 2016-AFR-07
 

The purpose of this position is to work closely with 

(a) MI staff 

(b) SUN focal points, networks and key stakeholders 

(c) DFID and others donor representatives in the Region and in prioritized countries to 

(1) identify, diagnose and specify needs for Technical Assistance (TA), 

(2) source and select appropriate national and/or international TA resources, and 

(c) to negotiate contracts with, manage and monitor the performance of, TA providers; 

(d) capture and help disseminate lessons learned from TA assignments via the SUN movement.

Africa Project Officer – Technical Assistance to Nutrition (TAN)
Job #: 2016-AFR-08
 

The purpose of this position is to provide programmatic and financial administrative support to MI’s Project Manager Africa in the implementation and coordination of the DFID-funded TAN project to support selected SUN countries to accelerate the scale up of nutrition.
 

How to Apply: 

Please forward your resume and cover letter to africahr@micronutrient.org quoting Job# for which you are applying in the subject line.

Competition closes March 7, 2016.

Selected candidates must be currently legally entitled to work in Kenya OR Ethiopia. 

Only applicants chosen to participate in the interview process will be contacted.