Background:

ELEVATE Nutrition (Enhancing Local Efforts for Vital, Transformative, and Evidence-Based Nutrition), funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is a five-year cooperative agreementled by FHI 360 in collaboration with Action Against Hunger, Bixal, CNFA: Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture, GEMNet-Health, and Oxford Policy Management. The project aims to advance local implementation of high-quality nutrition programs and policies to improve the nutritional status of women and children, particularly in the first 1,000 days. ELEVATE Nutrition will drive efforts to sustainUSAID technical leadership in nutrition, enhance locally driven nutrition programs and policies, and boostinnovative efforts to share learning and transfer knowledge.ELEVATE Nutrition has active programs in Ghana, Mozambique, and Senegal, and is expected to open additional programs over the life of the activity.

Job Summary:

The Technical Officer will provide technical support to ELEVATE Nutrition’s multi-sectoral nutrition global and country-based activities. The Technical Officer III will support the technical teams to design and implement activities, provide technical assistance to global implementing partners and/or ELEVATE Nutrition country teams, draw out contentfor knowledge management and dissemination efforts, and support learning initiatives. They will contribute to the development of project reports and technical products, among other technical responsibilities.Technical areas may include capacity strengthening, diet quality, wasting, social and behavior change, governance, early childhood development, and cross-cutting initiatives such as the US Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan. They will work with the capacity strengthening; monitoring, evaluation, and research; and knowledge management and learning technical teams to support ELEVATE Nutrition’s goal to advance evidence-based, local efforts for improving nutrition outcomes. A successful Technical Officer will have the required qualifications,a dedication to learning, commitment to quality programming, strong attention to detailand organization, and preference for working in a dynamic team environment with colleagues across multiple cultures, languages, and time zones.

Responsibilities:

The Technical Officer provides technical support and guidance to technical teams during the development and implementation of project activities. Responsibilities include the following.

• Provides guidance to technical team members andassistspeople and teams to develop, refine, and implement technical activities.

• Supports technical capacity strengthening for project team and partners.

• Providessupport to ensure technical groups function efficiently, e.g., helps break down work into steps, setup meetings, shape agendas, take notes, and track follow up action items.

• Conducts searches and summarizes findings of published literature on relevant technical issues.

• Develops/writes technical briefs, reports, or other necessary materials such as web content and presentations to facilitate learning, best practices, and evidence and resource uptake.

• Contributes to creation and/or compilation of technical contentand evidence for publications and manuscripts.

• Leads technical project activities or sub-activities, assists with implementation of activities, and monitors project deliverables.

• Identifies technical expertise needs for activities and supports team engagement to ensure a multi-sectoral approach is maintained throughout project implementation.

• Contributes to scopes of work for consultants and helps with hiring processes.

• Contributes to project work planning and budgeting.

• Supports technical teams to identify and document successful local advancements to contribute to global technical leadership and draft publications and technicalproducts for a range of external users.

• Supportsdocumentation and dissemination of country-based learning and its inclusion in project learning activities at all levels of implementation.

• Presentson behalf of ELEVATE Nutrition in webinars, professional meetings, conferences, and working groups.

• Supports local nutrition leaders to participate in global nutrition events assisting with preparation, e.g., abstract, poster, and presentation development.

• Provides other support as requested to ensure an efficient and successful project.

Applied Knowledge & Skills:

• In-depthtechnical knowledge of concepts and practices and experience providing technical assistancein internationalmulti-sectoral nutrition programs in development settings.

• Proficiency with online search tools.

• Sensitive to cultural diversity and understanding of the political, contextual, and ethical issues in assigned areas.

• Articulate, professional, and able to communicate in a clear, positive manner with clients and staff.

• Able to read, write, and speak fluent English. Working proficiency in written and spokenFrench preferred.

• Excellent organizational and analytical skills.Ability to multi-task in fast-paced environment.

• Excellent demonstrated project management skills.

• Demonstrated proficiency with using Microsoft Office Suite required.

• Ability to analyze and interpret information and prepare reports.

• Ability to solve problems and implement corrective action as needed.

Education and Experience:

• Master’s Degree in nutrition, public health, international development and/or related field.

• 6+ years of experienceproviding technical support in nutrition programming at global and/or country level.

• Experience working in USAID-funded programs essential.

• Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private organization.