Senior Nutrition Advisor

Manoff Group is recruiting a Senior Nutrition Advisor for a potential five-year project in Mozambique.

Duties

• Build on existing, evidence‐based interventions in community child health and nutrition models that have been shown to prevent and adequately address under-nutrition during the first 1,000 days of life, from conception to two years of age
• Oversee the project’s nutrition-specific interventions, ensuring also that household nutrition needs are recognized and promoted through all project activities supporting the productivity and competitiveness of Mozambique’s agribusiness sector

Requisites

• Master’s Degree in Nutrition, Public Health or a relevant field
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in community-based nutrition programming
• Experience working on complex development projects
• Experience with programmatic responses to rural gender disparities at the household and community levels, and knowledge of approaches to promote women’s leadership and participation in food security programming
• Strong Social and Behavior Change Communication skills
• Experience with USAID or other donor-funded programs is strongly preferred
• Supervisory experience
• At least 5 years of progressively responsible supervisory work experience, including: direct supervision of professional and support staff; quality evaluation of staff performance and deliverables; and project management under contracts
• Portuguese fluency
• Advanced-level English

Notes

• Only short listed applicants will be contacted
• Kindly reference the source of this job post: emprego.co.mz

How to Apply

1. Documentation

• Cover Letter
• Curriculum Vitae
• References

2. Application

• Send an email to manoffgroup@manoffgroup.com with the subject line "Senior Nutrition Advisor Mozambique"