Ecuador: Emergency Health Nutrition Specialist-P3

CANADEM is seeking individuals (Canadian citizens or permanent residents) with previous relevant experience who are fluent in English and Spanish and are available for an immediate deployment to Ecuador as a seconded expert with UNICEF for a 3 months contract.

PURPOSE

Responsible for the overall planning and management of UNICEF’s health and nutrition response to the emergency and crisis

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

· Support UNICEF’s response in Health and Nutrition as part of the overall health and nutrition sector coordination mechanism. Represent UNICEF in the Health and Nutrition and other cluster/sector coordination meetings.

· Participate in rapid needs assessments for the health and nutrition sectors.

· Contribute to UNICEF’s and the health and nutrition sector response strategy, work planning and contingency planning processes with other sectors to ensure cross sectoral response programming.

· Provide technical support to UNICEF and partners including contributing to the development of or sharing relevant standards, protocols, guidelines and training materials for health and nutrition in emergencies.

· Conduct joint field visits and evaluations with relevant health and nutrition sector/cluster partners.

· Develop behaviour change communication materials for C4D and other relevant sectors.

· Support reestablishment and enhancement of a sustainable decentralized public health system and services at community and health facility levels.

· Manage UNICEF’s relations with its partners, taking administrative actions such as renewing partner contracts, PCAs, and managing program finances.

· Oversee project supply chain in coordination with UNICEF operations staff to provide essential drugs and materials to government and NGO partners.

· Monitor the coverage of key health and nutrition interventions among the beneficiary population and share information for internal communication and external coordination.

· Support UNICEF information products related to the response including situation reports.

· In close consultation with the M&E team, contribute to the office M&E mechanism, including performing results tracking.

· Help draft funding appeals, donor reports and project proposals related to the response,

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES

· Advanced university degree in public health (MD, nursing or other relevant health discipline) plus a master’s, MSc, PhD in public health or related field

· A minimum of 5-8 years of progressively responsible experience in planning and implementing health emergency programmes with either the UN, IO, and/or NGO

• Fluency in English and Spanish (verbal and written).

If you are a Canadian citizen/Permanent Resident and see yourself in and have all of the above-mentioned skills, please register with CANADEM before contacting us. This can be done on our website at www.canadem.ca/register . Then send an email to pantiwa.naksomboon@CANADEM.ca by no later than May 9th, 11:59 pm EDT. Please include in a Subject Line: "Emergency Health Nutrition Specialist-P3-Ecuador." In your email, please include an updated resume, date of availability, your current location, and a phone number where we can reach you. Please also forward blank referee questionnaire that can be found atwww.canadem.ca/rqf to two of your references (recent supervisors preferred). Full instructions on how to complete the forms are included in the document; also please send us any evaluation report that you may have about your field work. We will be considering applications as they are received.