Consultancy: Health and Nutrition Consultant in Myanmar

This consultancy, focused on DFID funding Nutrition Projects, will play a leading role in recommending a strategic direction and quality of nutrition activities in Rakhine State.

The project is centred on the team’s approach to innovativeness, being responsive to needs, ensuring long-term impact, and mainstreaming protection and social cohesion into interventions. Having Community Health Workers, mothers and Basic Health Staff as primary targets, the project will promote community participation, decentralization and context specific approach.

In order to improve early detection and treatment of nutrition status among the target population and thus increase its program coverage, the project addresses three key areas:

• promoting mother MUAC;
• raising community awareness and ensuring access to preventive and therapeutic services;
• Aiming to build field experiences which are adapted to Rakhine specific context.

The consultant will work closely with Head of Department (H&N), Technical Consultant, Access to Health Program Manager and Nutrition Technical Manager and will report directly to HARP project manager .

External coordination will be mainly with LIFT and Access to Health Governance Group, state and township-health officials from the government with support of the program manager.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

1. Master’s degree in nutrition or health;
2. At least 7 years of work experience in relevant field, including at least 5 years in senior management position;
3. Strong leadership abilities;
4. Excellent understanding and experience on key issues and strategies in health, nutrition and gender.
5. Excellent skills on process facilitation and coordination with high standard;
6. Excellent inter-personal communication skills;
7. Strong analytical capacity and proficient understanding of both qualitative and quantitative research methods;
8. Good presentation skills, including policy briefings;
9. Good supportive supervision skills;
10. Fluency in written and spoken English.
11. Fluency in Myanmar language is an asset.

HOW TO APPLY

Send your application by email to : nsm@mm-actioncontrelafaim.org or dyloghod@mm-actioncontrelafaim.org no latter than 28th February 2020

National Myanmar Consultants are strongly encouraged to apply.