Overview
Provide expert, high-quality technical assistance to country programs in the Middle East, North Africa & Ukraine (MENAU) and Asia Regions, supporting and expanding Nutrition programming.
Key Responsibilities
- Advise on and provide hands-on support for assessments, including application and contextualization of technical standards.
- Contribute to the design/development of theories of change and results frameworks, and other proposal technical content.
- Support in-country technical leads in analyzing relevant information for design meetings.
- Participate in project design meetings for relevant proposals.
- Advise on program modalities and strategic partnership development.
- Review and validate design meeting decisions around technical design quality.
- Promote and support design collaboration with partners and clients.
- Review proposals before submission to the donor.
- Participate in technical discussions with potential donors and partners.
- Ensure alignment of proposals with global nutrition evidence and frameworks.
- Contribute regional reflections in Nutrition Global Practice Area strategic framing.
- Participate in and contribute technical input to Country Program Strategy Action Plans.
- Lead and/or contribute to regional partnerships with key regional stakeholders.
- Contribute to and/or lead global and regional Concept Note development.
- Collaborate with Global Practice Team Leads and specialists to develop global health tools, concepts, and resources.
- Support knowledge sharing and thought leadership by contributing to technical publications, policy briefs, and presentations.
- Represent IRC in key regional and/or global technical meetings.
- Support country programs with the recruitment, onboarding, and training of technical coordinators and other key nutrition program staff or consultants.
- Assess and provide feedback on program quality to inform improvements.
- Work with Health TU teams to develop systems for monitoring progress on quality improvement.
- Collaborate with country program colleagues to monitor and analyze key indicators.
- Provide technical capacity strengthening through ongoing mentoring, coaching, and trainings.
- Review and share nutrition program-specific tools/resources/curricula.
- Participate in joint regional TA meetings and share updates.
- Collaborate with other TAs within the region to promote integrated programming leadership.
- Support countries/regions to document and share key program learnings.
- Coordinate with Nutrition TAs in other regions to strengthen cross-country and cross-regional learning.
- Plan and lead/coordinate delivery of group capacity building in the regions.
- Collaborate with the Quality in Emergencies team and Emergencies Management Unit (EMU) counterparts during emergency classifications.
- Contribute to global learning and evidence agenda.
- Maintain currency with sectoral best practices through continual learning and development.
- Contribute to publications and peer-reviewed articles documenting technical and research findings.
- Facilitate regional /cross regional nutrition learning networks/forums.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 6-8 years of relevant experience in implementing and/or managing health programs with strong experience/background in Nutrition.
- On the ground programmatic experience in a service delivery organization, NGO or comparable international agency required.
- Experience and familiarity with related donors, peer agencies and national contexts required, preferably in humanitarian, post-crisis, or climate-impacted contexts.
- Demonstrated expertise in technical program design, monitoring and evaluation.
- Experience in technical tools and materials development, monitoring and evaluation, and research in relation to environmental health is highly desired.
- Familiarity with nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive program monitoring, evaluation, and learning frameworks.
- Experience in strategy development and working across sectors or disciplines is highly desired.
- Experience working in/understanding MENAU and Asia regional or country contexts.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in nutrition or a relevant field required; master's degree preferred.
