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(CLOSED) Nutrition & Health Program Manager
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World Vision Closing date: 22 Nov 2009 -- (CLOSED)
Location: Canada - Mississauga
World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy
organization dedicated to working with children, families and
communities to overcome poverty and injustice. Here is an opportunity
to realize your potential to change the world.

The Nutrition & Health Program Manager will advise and assist World
Vision to design and facilitate implementation, monitor and evaluate
nutrition and health programs, in both emergency and development
contexts. The position is based at World Vision Canada (WVC) but
requires overseas travel. The Nutrition & Health Program Manager will
report to the Nutrition & Health Team Leader.

The Nutrition & Health Program Manager will work collaboratively
internally with the Nutrition & Health Team, the Regional Programs
department, the Humanitarian Emergency Affairs Team (HEA), and other
relevant colleagues at World Vision Canada (WVC), as well as with
World Vision International (WVI) colleagues including the Centre of
Expertise for Nutrition (CoE) and the Global Health Centre and other
external agencies (e.g. donors, other NGOs, universities etc.)

Primary Responsibilities

Enhance Quality of Nutrition & Health Programming

Contribute to development of nutrition and health strategy.
Develop institutional nutrition capacity building strategy driven by
field needs, focused on outcomes.
Maintain current knowledge of research findings, standards and
guidelines for nutrition and health programming, and provide relevant
updates and tools to field partners.
Provide technical support to the design, implementation, monitoring
and evaluation of nutrition and health programs both emergency and
development.
Coordinate evaluation of nutrition programming at various levels and
coordinate operational research in nutrition.
Liaise with WV entities working in the nutrition and health sector
Coordinate and maintain nutrition and health programs and reports,
using program experience & results to inform/revise strategy and
programming.

Management of Nutrition and Health Programs

Provide technical and management support to nutrition and health
programs in both emergency and development contexts. This support
includes guidance on the design, implementation, monitoring and
evaluation of programs, through ongoing correspondence with field
partners, review of proposals and reports, and regular field visits.
Liaise with WVC finance staff for budget preparation and monitoring.
Liaise with marketing department and program donors, providing program
updates and advocating for field partners as needed.

Development of New Initiatives and Partnerships for Resource
Acquisition and Advocacy

Investigate and pursue opportunities to increase the extent and
quality of WVC's nutrition and health programming, in collaboration
with field partners and WVC colleagues.
Represent WV's work in nutrition and health to external agencies
through correspondence, dissemination of assessment findings and
lessons learned, and participation in professional conferences and
networks.
Draft concept papers and proposals in participatory process with field
partners for presentation to donors

Requirements

The successful candidate should possess a Master's degree in
 nutrition or a related health discipline with three years of
 related experience in a developing country environment or
 Bachelors in nutrition and five years experience.

Experience in Community-based nutrition and health programming
 both in emergency as well as development contexts is key to this
 position.

Strong written and oral communication skills in both English and
 French are highly desirable for this position.

Analytical skills for synthesis of materials, evaluations, and
 preparation of presentations/articles for publication as well as
 experience in a PC environment and the MS Office suite of
 software.

Database management or familiarity with statistical software is an
 asset.

Evidence of a highly motivated team player is necessary.

Reference Code: RW7XGN3E-32

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