The Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) is a global, USAID Cooperative Agreement operating in 24 high priority countries to introduce and support high-impact health interventions with the ultimate goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths within a generation. The Program is focused on ensuring that all women, newborns and children most in need have equitable access to quality health care services to save lives. USAID’s MCSP supports programming in maternal, newborn and child health, immunization, family planning and reproductive health, nutrition, health systems strengthening, water/sanitation/hygiene, malaria, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, and pediatric HIV care and treatment. USAID’s MCSP engages governments, policymakers, private sector leaders, health care providers, civil society, faith-based organizations and communities in adopting and accelerating proven approaches to address the major causes of maternal, newborn and child mortality such as postpartum hemorrhage, birth asphyxia and diarrhea, respectively, and improve the quality of health services, from household to hospital.
USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program is hiring a Nutrition Technical Advisor for the SSQH-North project. The Nutrition Technical Advisor provides state of the art practical, operational and clinical guidance for Nutrition in Haiti. S/he serves as an expert to develop and strengthen nutrition interventions that will ensure significant expansion and improved quality of priority services at the community and primary health care levels. The responsibilities for this position will include providing nutrition program leadership, guiding implementation, monitoring and evaluation and multi-partner coordination. S/he will be part of a larger technical team as well as work collaboratively with other senior management. This position will report directly to the SSQH-North Technical Director. The Nutrition Technical Advisor is responsible for guiding and overseeing the technical and strategic direction of SSQH-North’s Maternal and Child Survival Program nutrition component in northern Haiti. This position is based in Cap Haitien
Fonctions
• Ensure supervision of nutrition related activities in the 84 project-supported sites and communities
• Ensure that facility providers are trained and competent to provide nutrition counseling during antenatal care and post-natal care for all women and children including HIV positive for breastfeeding, complementary feeding, diagnosis and referrals for malnutrition, provision of ORS and micronutrients
• Ensure that facility providers are able to provide high quality nutrition counseling to PLWHA
• Work closely with Commodities and Supply Officer to ensure that facilities have appropriate stocks of nutrition related products including micronutrients
• Ensure that agents de santé polyvalants (ASCPs) work with mother’s support groups (Mother’s Clubs) to address barriers to exclusive breastfeeding in the context of HIV
• As part of a team of technical advisors, the Nutrition Technical Advisor will provide technical leadership in the areas of: infant and young child feeding, integration of nutrition into integrated community case management (iCCM) of childhood illness, which will include strengthening data collection of routine nutrition indicators
• Contribute to and coordinate with the program’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team on activities to ensure that the program meets set targets in accordance with national and USG standards
• Contribute to annual work planning, training plans and quarterly reports and other required technical reports
• Contribute to timely, accurate and appropriate reporting of program activities and results
• Work closely with the child health team to support the strengthening and expansion of integrated nutrition and child health services
• Provide technical leadership, advice, expertise, management, coordination and support supervision of nutrition activities within the departments and ensure maximum integration of project activities across and within technical areas with MCSP and other partners
• Ensure appropriate linkage between Nutrition and MNCH clinical services with other activities within the project
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor which contribute to the achievement of program goals
Qualifications Requises
• Advanced degree in one of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: Public Health & Nutrition, Health Sciences, International Health & Nutrition, Family Health & Nutrition, Nutritional Epidemiology, Health & Nutrition Education, Health & Nutrition Promotion and Disease Prevention, Public Health, Health Emergency Preparedness, or other relevant discipline(s)
• Advanced knowledge and skills of the most up-to-date scientific evidence on effective interventions in nutrition
• Minimum of five years of experience in health sector with focus on nutrition
• Strong change management, results-oriented and decision-making skills
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
• Experience working on successful, replicable and sustainable programs with a nutrition component
• Expertise in research to practice identifying best practices and adapting them to program realities
• Familiarity with USAID policies and administrative procedures, and experience in design and implementation of nutrition interventions
• Fluency in French and Haitian Creole, proficiency in English also desirable
• Excellent facilitation, oral and written communications skills
• Ability and willingness to travel around Haiti up to 50% of time
