Background Information – LIFT Fund

Key Functions

1. Support to Programme development and planning
2. Coordination and Stakeholder Engagement
3. Monitoring and Reporting
4. Capacity Strengthening, Knowledge Sharing, and Innovation

• Significantly contribute to the development of nutrition interventions, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with LIFT 2024-2028 POA.
• Coordinate specific and defined nutrition projects and activities, ensuring a harmonized approach with wider LIFT programmes/projects aligned to the overall nutrition strategy.
• Contribute to the preparation and review of project documentation, reports, and plans, ensuring alignment with LIFT’s strategic objectives and stakeholder requirements.
• Provide technical support to programme teams on nutrition-related issues, offering advice on best practices, policies, and strategies to ensure high-quality results.
• Participate in field visits when needed to provide relevant support to project implementation in the subject area.

Coordination and Stakeholder Engagement

• Coordinate internal teams and external stakeholders involved in the subject area, including UN agencies, NGOs, and partners.
• Coordinate meetings, events, and other nutrition activities.
• Track progress of nutrition activities, ensuring that stakeholders are supported and any challenge or issue is flagged to the Programme Management Advisor (Nutrition).

Monitoring and Reporting

• Draft regular reports and analyses in the subject area.
• Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of nutrition projects by supporting data collection, analysis, and reporting of progress against set targets.
• In coordination with internal LIFT teams, provide significant inputs to the monitoring and evaluation of nutrition activities, assisting in tracking indicators and milestones.
• Compile and analyze data to measure the effectiveness and impact of interventions.
• Provide timely and accurate updates to the Programme Management Advisor on nutrition activities and interventions.

Capacity Strengthening, Knowledge Sharing, and Innovation

• Coordinate and facilitate capacity-strengthening activities for LIFT personnel, partners, and relevant stakeholders in the subject area.
• Coordinate with the Knowledge Management and internal teams to facilitate nutrition knowledge sharing and benchmark from best practices that could be implemented at LIFT among stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development and dissemination of tools and resources aimed at improving nutrition projects and initiatives.
• Maintain records of activities, including reports, surveys, and meeting minutes, ensuring proper documentation for audit and review purposes in the subject area.
• Apply innovative approaches to support the implementation and delivery of effective and efficient initiatives in the subject area.

Education:

• A Master’s degree preferably in public health, nutrition, food technology, or other similar fields is required.
• A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree), preferably in the above fields with an additional 2 years of relevant experience, could be considered in lieu of the Master´s degree.

Experience:

• A minimum of 2 years of professional experience in public health, food security, nutrition or other related projects or programmes is required.
• Experience in implementing development programmes focused on nutrition outcomes is required.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (e.g. MS Office newer versions, Google Suite Applications) is required.
• Experience in implementation of nutrition sensitive interventions programmes is desirable.
• Experience in developing or coordinating nutrition assessments or similar is a great asset.
• Demonstrated skills in generating and compiling high-quality reports is highly desirable.
• Experience working with diverse partners and external stakeholders is an asset.
• Experience working with the UN or international organizations is highly desirable.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
• Proficiency in Burmese is required.
• Proficiency in other Myanmar languages is an asset.

Contract type: Local Individual Contractor Agreement (LICA)
Contract level: LICA Specialist-9
Contract duration: Open-ended, subject to organizational requirements, availability of funds and satisfactory performance.

For more details about the ICA contractual modality, please follow this link:
https://www.unops.org/english/Opportunities/job-opportunities/what-we-offer/Pages/Individual-Contractor-Agreements.aspx

• Please note that UNOPS does not accept unsolicited resumes.
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process, which involves various assessments.
• UNOPS embraces diversity and is committed to equal employment opportunity. Our workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures, languages, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities. UNOPS seeks to sustain and strengthen this diversity to ensure equal opportunities as well as an inclusive working environment for its entire workforce.
• Qualified women and candidates from groups which are underrepresented in the UNOPS workforce are encouraged to apply. These include in particular candidates from racialized and/or indigenous groups, members of minority gender identities and sexual orientations, and people with disabilities.
• We would like to ensure all candidates perform at their best during the assessment process. If you are shortlisted and require additional assistance to complete any assessment, including reasonable accommodation, please inform our human resources team when you receive an invitation.
• The position is stationed in Yangon, Myanmar, which is a non-family duty station.

Terms and Conditions

• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post.
• For retainer contracts, you must complete a few mandatory courses ( they take around 4 hours to complete) in your own time, before providing services to UNOPS. Refreshers or new mandatory courses may be required during your contract. Please note that you will not receive any compensation for taking courses and refreshers. For more information on a retainer contract here.
• All UNOPS personnel are responsible for performing their duties in accordance with the UN Charter and UNOPS Policies and Instructions, as well as other relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, all personnel must demonstrate an understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a manner consistent with UN core values and the UN Common Agenda.
• It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential personnel. Recruitment in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.