Health & Nutrition Technical Advisor - 2025627

Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?

If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.

At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.

If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.

ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:

World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.

Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.

POSITION SUMMARY:

As a member of a multi-sector programming advisory team, this role’s primary function is to grow and support the scope and quality of World Relief’s Health and Nutrition portfolio and delivery technical assistance to Country Offices in alignment with International Programs Strategy. Primary responsibilities include: business development, program technical assistance, strategy, learning and impact, and external engagement. World Relief’s existing Health and Nutrition programs have a focus on the following:

• Implementation and capacity strengthening support for primary health care, mobile clinics, community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), addressing chronic malnutrition, community mobilization, and social behavior change communication;

• Specialized technical support in maternal, newborn, infant, and young child nutrition, nutrition programs in emergencies, combatting stunting, and nutrition-sensitive programs;

• Integrated disease outbreak response, including clinical management of cases, risk communication and community engagement. Areas of ongoing growth for World Relief’s Health and Nutrition programs include provision of integrated mental health services in primary care settings and growing provision of NCD care.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Business Development (40%)
• Grow WR’s Health and Nutrition portfolio and funding through leads development, pre-positioning, and the development of high-quality concept notes and proposals.
• Collaborate with the Business Development team to create guidance and equip country offices in relevant partner mapping and relationship development.
• Provide technical and partnership support and advice on prepositioning and lead development for health and nutrition new business, including supporting the creation of capacity statements, partner approaches, case studies, donor pitches, etc.
• Work with WR COs to explore new opportunities for implementing health and nutrition programming, in alignment with the organizational and sectoral strategies.
• In collaboration with the BD department, design project strategies, develop high quality proposals, and write concept notes and proposals in collaboration with country-level staff and other WR HO TAs.
• Co-design approaches with country teams through the facilitation of design workshops and development of appropriate theory of change, logframes and indicators
• Review proposals to ensure compliance with donor requirements for technical sections.
• Ensure that health and nutrition proposals include appropriate budget for critical costs including technical service provision, pharmaceuticals and relevant staff capacity development.
• Program Quality and Technical Assistance (30%)
• Act as global technical lead for supporting implementation and continued growth of World Relief’s Health and Nutrition programming. This includes acting as technical lead for WR’s program portfolio covering health, nutrion, and WASH and supervision to contractors who support these portfolios.
• Provide technical support to country offices with assessments, program planning and design, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building, and program quality assurance.
• Strengthen CO capacity to prepare implementation and monitoring and evaluation plans.
• Work with COs to adapt, update, and contextualize tools and curricula.
• Review program targets, resources allocated toward targets, and track progress toward targets in programs/projects as assigned by the Director, Program Quality and Impact Department.
• Mentor and advise program staff on engagement of health and nutrition activities in and with the local church and communities.
• Carry out project visits to country offices for sectoral training, program monitoring and evaluation, quality improvement, and partner development and collaboration.
• Develop programming guidance and tools (including capacity building strategies, curricula, and M&E tools) in collaboration with other sectoral teams to help country office staff design and implement context-specific projects.
• Coordinate and support country-specific assessment and evaluations of quality and impact of health and nutrition and other integrated programs.
• Strategy, Learning and Impact (15%)
• Train and support program staff and partners (in-person and virtually) in specific program guidelines and tools. Orient and equip staff on key manuals, curricula and tools that are used to design, implement and assess health and nutrition programs.
• Foster learning and collaboration among WR staff through the facilitation of the WR Health and Nutrition Community of Practice.
• Stay abreast of new developments and innovations in the health and nutrion sector to ensure program compliance and incorporate into staff capacity building, design of new projects and scaling up of best practices.
• Provide and document evidence generated from COs and multi-country programs to improve the perception and competitiveness of WR and as a strong voice and advocate for social justice and change on behalf of our program participants.
• Strengthen documentation and evidence-building around WR’s health and nutrition programming work for internal learning and external publications through the development of case studies, project briefs, and published articles.
• External Engagement (15%)
• Build WR’s technical brand through thought-leadership, networking and engaging with partners, donors, governments and community leaders and addressing professional conferences and technical forums through abstracts, program presentations, publications, and advocacy.
• Participate in relevant health and nutrition professional networks and working groups, such as those through CORE Group, CCIH and the Global Health Cluster.
• Any other duties as requested by supervisor

JOB REQUIREMENTS:
• Mature and personal Christian faith
• Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
• Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
• Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Association of Evangelicals' For the Health of The Nation document
• A relationship with Jesus Christ that serves as the primary motivator and guide in your professional career and clearly informs your perspective in understanding issues related to the work of World Relief.
• Demonstrated technical expertise and experience in designing and providing technical assistance to health and nutrition programming in emergencies and in protracted humanitarian crises, including familiarity with CHS and Sphere standards for health and nutrition programming in humanitarian action and other tools and guidance from WHO and UNICEF.
• Familiarity with US government foreign assistance policies and guidance related to humanitarian programming and the health and nutrtion sector.
• Proven experience in program design and business development evidenced by successful grant awards and past history of working with BHA, DoS, ECHO and UNICEF.
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluation utilizing quantitative and qualitative methodology, including development of indicators, logframes, and assessments.
• Must be able to establish strong relationships cross culturally.
• Ability to manage competing priorities.
• Proven solid analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong facilitation skills and proven experience providing capacity building for adults.
• High level of proficiency with technology including Microsoft Office applications.
• Excellent English language oral presentation and written communication skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel to program countries for up to 25% of time including to insecure locations where freedom of movement may be limited and areas where amenities are limited

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Master’s Degree or higher in Public Health or other related field. Desirable: qualification in a clinical health field e.g. medical doctor, nurse, midwife.
• Minimum seven years of experience in designing and implementing global health and/or nutrition programs in multiple regions of the world, with particular focus on social and behavior change strategies.
• At least three years of experience working in fragile or conflict-affected areas or with people on the move as a key target population.
• Ability with quantitative and/or qualitative data analysis software (Epi Info, SPSS, STATA, or R) preferred.
• Additional language acquisition (French, Kiswahili, Arabic) preferred
• Previous supervisory experience preferred

World Relief offers a competitive benefits package and employee discount program for full-time and part-time employees.

World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Gold-level Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation for exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health.
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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Compensation is commensurate with experience.