Health & Nutrition Officer
Organizational Context
UNICEF operates in over 190 countries, dedicated to saving children’s lives, defending their rights, and helping them fulfill their potential. It is a committed organization passionate about promoting every child's rights, offering staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development while serving communities worldwide.
Job Purpose
The Health & Nutrition Officer provides professional technical assistance and support for the comprehensive design, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and administration of programme/project activities. This critical role encompasses detailed data analysis, accurate progress reporting, facilitating knowledge networking, and strengthening capacity building efforts. The primary purpose is to ensure the timely and effective achievement of planned objectives outlined in the work plan, consistently aligning all initiatives with the broader Health & Nutrition programme goals and strategic priorities. By contributing expertise in these areas, the officer plays a vital part in enhancing the effectiveness and sustainability of health and nutrition interventions. This position is instrumental in translating UNICEF's commitment to children's health into tangible results, ensuring that programmes are well-managed, evidence-based, and responsive to the needs of vulnerable populations, thereby directly contributing to improving the well-being and rights of children and communities served by UNICEF.
Responsibilities
The Health & Nutrition Officer is responsible for ensuring the timely availability of accurate information, data analysis, and comprehensive documentation to support robust situation analysis, sectoral input, and reporting requirements. This includes providing crucial technical assistance for the development and implementation of integrated Health & Nutrition strategies and approaches, actively participating and collaborating with both internal UNICEF teams and external partners. The officer will effectively establish work plans and objectives, ensuring that planned results are delivered promptly through dedicated technical support and close coordination with all relevant stakeholders. A key responsibility involves enhancing project efficiency and effectiveness through diligent implementation follow-up, continuously monitoring project progress to facilitate necessary adjustments and improvements in program delivery and long-term sustainability. This also entails providing gender/sex disaggregated data and relevant inputs specific to the Health & Nutrition programme. Furthermore, the role ensures transparency in the management of both supply and non-supply assistance, as well as the meticulous disbursement of programme funds allocated for Health & Nutrition initiatives. Finally, the officer is tasked with maintaining effective partnerships and fostering strong working relationships for advocacy efforts and technical coordination, contributing to a collaborative environment that supports programme goals.
Work Experience
Information not available.
Skills
Programme Design, Project Planning, Implementation Monitoring, Evaluation, Data Analysis, Progress Reporting, Knowledge Management, Capacity Building, Technical Assistance, Coordination, Partnership Management, Advocacy