Deployable Nutrition Specialist

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

Disasters and conflicts threaten children’s rights and damage the societies they live in. Last year alone, Plan International responded to 81 disasters globally to champion and uphold the rights of children, particularly girls, before, during and after emergencies.

To sustain its engagement with children affected by crises, our Humanitarian team is currently recruiting committed humanitarian experts to deploy 9 months of the year to various emergency contexts. This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth of our Core Surge team and to support children and their communities around the world in building resilience to increasing disaster risks.

The Opportunity

Plan International implements food security, nutrition and livelihoods programmes in over 30 countries, supported by multiple donors and governments. The main focus is on emergency lifesaving interventions, with an increasing emphasis on recovery and capacity-strengthening interventions with a climate change adaptation lens. In response to the ongoing global food crisis, Plan International has been scaling up responses in food security, nutrition and livelihoods reaching the most affected communities. Integrated food security and nutrition is a key component of Plan International’s humanitarian work.

As a Deployable Nutrition Specialist, you will provide technical leadership and support to the Country Offices (COs) primarily on the nutrition analysis, design and implementation of integrated nutrition and food security initiatives in our humanitarian responses, support on capacity strengthening for  Plan international staff, lead review of impacts of the nutrition interventions, and support the strengthening of Plan’s representation at the food security and nutrition working groups and clusters. You will also support reporting and documentation processes and policy influencing in relation to food security and nutrition at Plan International.

The Requirements

• Demonstrable experience working in a broad range of humanitarian crises in a number of different contexts.
• Demonstrable experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of integrated food security and nutrition projects.
• Experience in building and strengthening technical expertise on food security and nutrition in humanitarian work
• Knowledge of relevant international humanitarian standards, approaches (especially integrated approaches), and codes of conduct.
• Proven experience working in food security and livelihoods programming, especially from a girls’ rights perspective in a variety of contexts including acute & chronic food insecurity crisis
• Ability to network effectively and build good working relationships with colleagues both within Plan International as well as in peer agencies.
• Good working knowledge of key humanitarian donors, for example, WFP, USAID, DFAT, GAC, FCDO, and DGECHO amongst others.
• Knowledge of major humanitarian, recovery and development challenges and issues, specifically strategies for hunger and malnutrition reduction.
• Proven representational and coordination skills
• Strong analytical and report-writing skills
• Committed to actively upholding Plan International’s vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.

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Location: This role will be deployed 75% of the time to Plan International’s country programmes and home-based when not deployed. This can be flexible where Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the pre-existing right to work and live. 
 

Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract available as per employing office’s standard terms and conditions. 

Reports to: Food Security and Livelihoods Specialist

Closing Date: Sunday 5th March

*Applicable locations include: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.