Technical Advisor, Policy Enabling Environment at Nutrition International

Nutrition International (formerly the Micronutrient Initiative) is passionate about tackling one of the world’s greatest health issues: malnutrition. Recognized as global experts, we work around the world to create effective and sustainable solutions for hidden hunger. Nutrition International has headquarters in Ottawa, Canada and regional offices in New Delhi, India to oversee Asian operations and in Nairobi, Kenya to oversee African operations. Nutrition International is a not-for-profit organization governed by a dedicated international Board of Directors and led by an internationally recognized team of technical experts, program designers, advocates, analysts, evaluators, implementers, educators, resource managers and nutrition champions.

About the role:

Led by Nutrition International (NI), this full-time position will be part of NI’s Global Technical Services (GTS) unit. GTS is a diverse and dynamic group of technical experts, who lead on the quality assurance of NI’s research and programs and on the dissemination and translation of new knowledge to influence and improve national and global policies and practice. The GTS team works closely with NI’s regional and country offices in Africa and Asia along with other internal and external partners to provide technical leadership and build country capacity for integrating and improving nutrition and health programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of contextually grounded landscape analyses that assess strengths, weaknesses, and gaps within national level fortification policies, fortification legislation, national fortification standards, and regulatory monitoring framework


• Support the conceptualization of recommendations based on the landscape analyses and lead the mapping of a way forward to improve the policy enabling environment within each country.


• Ensure recommendations are inclusive, where and when appropriate, of approaches that break from LSFF business as usual, are scalable, realistic, and sustainable.


• Identify and manage in-country consultants to support national-level policy enabling environment landscape analyses, where and as appropriate.


• Support next steps in the design and implementation of policy level enabling environment activities based on findings from landscape analysis and in close consultation and collaboration with the other IRs, particularly IRs 2 and 3.


• Support and contribute to other AFFORD components as necessary including but not restricted to the Knowledge Management approach and M&E and tracking policy-level indicators.


• Coordinate closely with NI’s ongoing fortification programs in-country and LSFF efforts globally


• Any other related duties as assigned

About you

• Master’s degree or higher level with a focus on nutrition, foods and nutrition systems and /or health sciences or other related fields


• At least 8 years of experience working in-country and / or regionally around the design and implementation of LSFF programs.


• At least 3 years of experience in project management. Experience working across and within sectors as a means of optimizing program performance.


• Experience working with large multi-stakeholder teams and ability to participate in and coordinate across them

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