ABOUT THE COMPANY:

UNICEF was created with a distinct purpose in mind: to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child’s path. We advocate for measures to give children the best start in life, because proper care at the youngest age forms the strongest foundation for a person’s future

JOB SUMMARY

The Global Nutrition Cluster (GNC) is a holistic platform of support for nutrition preparedness, response, and recovery for humanitarian emergencies.

This common global mechanism endorsed by over 40 GNC partners provides systematic, predictable, timely, and coordinated nutrition assistance to meet the nutrition rights and needs of people affected by emergencies.

The GNC is a global resource for NiE programme and coordination / information management support and constitutes a platform for learning and development.

With a strong focus on localization, collectively with its network of partners, the GNC provides comprehensive support to nutrition practitioners especially to local and national actors who are working close to communities negatively impacted by the consequences of conflict and climate induced shocks.

As part of the evolution in ways of working, a new GNC Operations Team has been created composed of global and country facing operation functions to support the overall operations of the GNC, which includes coordination, information management and NiE programmes.

The GNC NiE Helpdesk will be responsible primarily for responding to NiE programme-related requests from country clusters or nutrition practitioners.

He or she will be acting as a link coordinating between the nutrition practitioners requesting technical support, the GNC Operations Team and the GNC Global Thematic Working Groups and Cross Cutting Working Groups.

This role entails identifying strategic and emerging technical issues and raising them to the attention of UNICEF and the GNC WGs after consultation with relevant members of the Operations Team.

The NiE Helpdesk will be part of the GNC Operations Team to support the overall coordination of the GNC.

In this role, he or she will also support the GNC’s capacity strengthening strategy, in alignment with the GNC Localization Roadmap and in close collaboration with the GNC Climate Working Group.

Responsibilities

1. Coordinate and respond to 100 requests for NiE support received via the GNC request management system or via calls, emails, consultations, etc.

2.Execute 40 technical consultations with various stakeholders including UNICEF RO/COs and with local and national actors to identify NiE needs and facilitate cross country and multilevel learning and exchange, with a specific focus on localization and climate. Expected at least 15 consultations will be with regional and country level working groups and teams.

3. Join 20 country calls with GNC coordination team (for priority countries with active emergency) to identify NiE priorities and actions for climate crisis impact mitigation.

4. Coordinate and ensure cohesion with different parts of the GNC through participation in 30 GNC WGs meetings and 20 meetings of the GNC Operations Team

5. Develop and execute 10 learning events jointly with other WGs based on identify NiE priorities, with a focus on localization and climate.

6. Facilitate the capacity strengthening working group, organize and facilitate 10 meetings, maintain updated workplan for the group and monitor the implementation of the capacity strengthening strategy.

7. Based on priorities identified jointly with the GNC capacity strengthening WG (and in collaboration with the Localization WG and Climate WG), travel to 3 countries to deliver capacity strengthening activities.

8. Provide mentorship of 2 individuals (among LNAs) in the GNC mentoring program 

REQUIRED EDUCATION: Postgraduate Degree

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: 96