NGO Job Vacancies - Micronutrient Initiative Africa

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 

(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.
 

Please forward your resume and cover

letter to africahr@micronutrient.org quoting Job# for which you are applying in

the subject line.

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.