Background:
ELEVATE Nutrition (Enhancing Local Efforts for Vital, Transformative, and Evidence-Based Nutrition), funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is a five-year cooperative agreement led by FHI 360 in collaboration with Action Against Hunger, Bixal, CNFA: Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture, GEMNet-Health, and Oxford Policy Management. The project aims to advance local implementation of high-quality nutrition programs and policies to improve the nutritional status of women and children, particularly in the first 1,000 days. ELEVATE Nutrition will drive efforts to sustain USAID technical leadership in nutrition, enhance locally driven nutrition programs and policies, and boost innovative efforts to share learning and transfer knowledge.
Job Summary:
The Technical Officer III will provide technical support to ELEVATE Nutritionโs multi-sectoral nutrition activities. The Technical Officer III will support the technical teams to design and implement activities, draw out content for knowledge management and dissemination efforts, and support learning initiatives. They will also contribute to the development of project reports and technical products, among other technical responsibilities. Technical areas may include capacity strengthening, diet quality, wasting, social and behavior change, governance, and cross-cutting initiatives such as the US Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan. We will aim to match the Technical Officer IIIโs interests with the projectโs needs to the extent possible. We are looking for someone with the required qualifications who has a strong desire to learn, is committed to quality programming, is detail-oriented and organized, and likes working in a dynamic team environment with colleagues across multiple cultures, languages, and time zones. We are strongly committed to ensuring country-level stakeholders and systems are driving the priorities at all levels. We value input from all staff, aim to set reasonable expectations, and are committed to fostering professional growth.
Responsibilities:
The Technical Officer III provides technical support and guidance to technical teams during the development and implementation of project activities. Responsibilities include the following.
Provides guidance to technical team members and assists people and teams to develop, refine, and implement technical activities.
Supports technical capacity strengthening for project team and partners.
Provides support to ensure technical groups function efficiently, e.g., helps break down work into steps, set up meetings, shape agendas, take notes, and track follow up action items.
Conducts searches and summarizes findings of published literature on relevant technical issues.
Develops or writes technical briefs, reports, or other necessary materials such as web content and presentations to facilitate learning, best practices, and evidence and resource uptake.
Contributes to creation of technical content and compilation of evidence for publications and manuscripts.
Leads technical project activities or sub-activities, assists with implementation of activities, and monitors project deliverables.
Identifies technical expertise needs for activities and supports team engagement to ensure a multi-sectoral approach is maintained throughout project implementation.
Contributes to scopes of work for consultants and helps with hiring processes.
Contributes to project work planning and budgeting.
Supports technical teams to identify and document successful local advancements to contribute to global technical leadership and draft publications and technical products for a range of external users