Kenya: Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Adviser

Organization: Save the Children UK

Country: Kenya

Closing date: 20 May 2016

Nairobi with significant travel within the East and Southern Africa (ESA) region

Fixed Term Contract for 24 months

We are looking for a committed and experienced nutrition specialist to join us as Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Adviser (ESA).

Working in more than 120 countries, we do whatever it takes to create breakthroughs in the way the world treats children. Our UK and Global Programmes department delivers humanitarian and development programmes, builds partnerships with institutional donors – including governments, multi-laterals and trusts – and drives lasting change. Together, we save children’s lives, fight for their rights and help them fulfil their potential.

As the Regional Humanitarian Nutrition Adviser you will be a member of the Regional Humanitarian team, the Save the Children Emergency Nutrition Working Group (ENWG) and will play an important role in coordinating and working closely with other SCI Member technical staff in Kenya and SCI Regional Office staff in East and Southern Africa.

You will:

• Deploy to the field at short notice to set up new humanitarian nutrition programmes, and provide support to country level Nutrition Specialists for humanitarian response including advisory visits as needed.


• Provide quality tools and guidelines to country programmes to ensure understanding of high quality programming, operations and advocacy in humanitarian nutrition programmes


• Support country programmes and head office in the recruitment of humanitarian nutrition staff and ongoing mentoring to support staff development in humanitarian nutrition settings


• Identify opportunities for partnership with external tertiary level health and nutrition institutes in the region, and UN agencies, to increase humanitarian nutrition capacity in the region


• Represent SC in various technical and nutrition advocacy initiatives and partnerships and lead on specific areas of advocacy and representation directly related to humanitarian nutrition programming


• Liaise with the relevant external regional stakeholders including donors, learning institutes, UN and NGO representatives identifying opportunities, synergies and partnerships for SC’s humanitarian nutrition work.

To be successful you will have significant and progressive experience in the field as well as regional or head office level in the implementation and management of humanitarian nutrition programmes. You should also be nutrition professional with post graduate qualifications in nutrition or a relevant subject.. In addition you will have:

• Proven experience in developing proposals for major donors


• Experience of contingency planning/emergency preparedness planning


• Experience of working with nutrition cluster coordination mechanisms in country and practical understanding of the cluster approach at country, regional and global level


• Experience in team leadership and management with highly developed writing skills


• Strong communication skills at a level appropriate for high level external representation and ability to tailor communications to different audiences.

At Save the Children our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we"ll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.

To apply please visit our website.

Closing date: 20 May 2016

Start date: 1 August 2016

How to apply:

To apply please visit our website.