ROLE PURPOSE:

The Technical Advisor will be responsible for ensuring that Nutrition emergency responses in Sudan Country is supported with quality technical inputs and to drive the child survival breakthrough, drawing upon country strategy priorities. The role will lead technical design and implementation of high-quality emergency nutrition programmes that deliver change for children in emergency programming. The role supports national advocacy and influencing while driving strategic partnerships for new business development. It supports the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across our programmes, teams and partners. The role will also link with regional emergency nutrition, and contribute to regional learning, evidence generation and knowledge management where appropriate. The role will work closely with operations colleagues and with partners in Sudan CO, building their capacity and building ownership and agency of local organisations. This position will be expected to engage with the country nutrition sector, and coordination mechanisms, as well as represent the organisation with key stakeholders such as the Ministry of Health, UN agencies, and key INGO / CSO. The role would be expected to support emergency preparedness,

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Nutrition Technical Specialist

Budget Responsibilities:

Role Dimensions: The role is expected to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children members, the Country Office Programme Development & Quality team, advocacy colleagues, Regional Advisors, technical counterparts in other organisation, donors etc. The role is also expected to engage with internal technical working groups and communities of practice.

Context: Emergency

Scope: Insert Country Focus

Primary Technical areas: Nutrition

Primary Sub technical area: Nutrition

Secondary Technical areas: Social Behaviour Change and IYCF

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

1. Technical Leadership:
2. Provide technical leadership for emergency Nutrition for the Country Office, and set the strategic approach in relation to the wider country strategy
3. Capacity build, mentor and build a supportive health community across the Country Office, in conjunction with other public health colleagues in Health and WASH.
4. Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):
5. Work closely with new business development colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities that allow for both integration into broader programmes and standalone health projects; engage with technical partners, donors and colleagues across Save the Children
6. Lead the technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing during new programme development, and ensure that we design and deliver high quality emergency nutrition intervention for children with public health resources, building on global best practice.
7. Ensure that gender, disability and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation.
8. Work with Child Rights Governance colleagues to ensure that a rights-based approach is reflected in our programme design and implementation with a strong focus on child participation
9. Provide oversight and guidance to the programme implementation teams to ensure that thematic programme components are technically sound, implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, acknowledged good practice (e.g. Save the Children Common Approaches); and are likely to achieve scale, as well as equitable and sustainable results.
10. Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) teams to carry out gender and power analysis, and conduct quality monitoring against international standards through participatory methodologies that promote gender equality and social justice (including child-friendly and gender sensitive/transformative methodologies);.
11. Contribute towards the creation of an organisational learning culture that promotes the use of disaggregated data, evidence and analysis (including gender and power analysis) and understands its link to quality and accountable programming; Contribute to strengthening the use of equality-focused programme principles and good practice across themes and sectors.
12. Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.
13. Contribute to organisational learning on health ensuring that learning from our programmes is shared across the Country Office and our partners, as well as with colleagues in the wider regional and global health, nutrition and WASH community in Save the Children.
14. Support Humanitarian colleagues (as needed) to develop emergency preparedness plans, and conduct sectoral assessments (including gender analysis and disability situation analysis using SC assessment processes and tools) and to design and deliver emergency response and recovery programmes. Ensure synergies between humanitarian Child Protection teams, data and programme design.
15. Networking & External Engagement:
16. In alignment with Country Office strategy and leadership, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners and government in-country, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in Nutrition.
17. Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others through national technical coordination and networking bodies such as health and nutrition clusters and working groups.
18. Strengthen civil society engagement in national dialogues and policy processes through working closely with advocacy and child rights governance colleagues. Ensure that the diverse voices of children, girls and boys are equitably heard and represented in our Nutrition work.
19. Represent the program to National and Local government representatives, donors, partner agencies, etc. as required.
20. Ensure the quality, clarity and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports (e.g. programme reports, sit-reps, internal updates), working closely with awards, programme implementation and communications colleagues as needed.
21. Leverage and liaise with technical colleagues from across Save the Children, including technical working groups and centres of excellence, ensuring that learning from the Country Office is shared with others and global lessons brought back.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• holds their team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in accordance with the context, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own professional development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a national and even regional scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, technical advisors and working groups, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

The post holder must commit to work in an international agency that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion and fights racism, gender inequality and discrimination in all forms; and to model positive behaviours that demonstrate a commitment to equality and respect to all colleagues, partners and communities.