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DUTY STATION: UNICEF Mali Entitlements: As per UN/UNICEF rules and Section/Division: Nutrition Unit, Child Survival Section regulations. Level: P3 Duration: 364 days Title: Nutrition Cluster Coordinator

PURPOSE OF POST: REPORTS TO: Nutrition Manager and Head of Child Survival Section On behalf of the IASC Humanitarian Coordinator and UNICEF (Under the supervision of the Nutrition Manager and under the guidance of the Chief of Child Survival NUMBER/LEVEL OF POSTS SUPERVISED: None Section) as the lead agency for the IASC Nutrition Cluster) and in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the Nutrition Cluster Coordinator will facilitate a timely and effective nutrition response and ensure that the capacity of national and local institutions is strengthened to respond to and coordinate emergency nutrition interventions that demonstrate results and impact achieved. Since January 2014, the country is undergoing a transition towards a government-led coordination of nutrition actors and programmatic response. Nevertheless, national capacities on coordination and cluster leadership are still inadequate to ensure an effective transition to government led nutrition emergency response. This transition has presented many challenges and the Cluster Coordinator will be charged with ensuring strong collaboration with the government in order to avoid parallel systems and to overshadowing existing governmental mechanisms.

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES: QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES:

1. Identification of key partners (10%): Education: Advanced university degree in Health, in  Identify key humanitarian partners for the Nutrition Human Nutrition preferably with corresponding degree in Cluster response, respecting their respective Public Health, Food Security, Medicine or other related mandates and program priorities field.  Identify other key partners including local and national authorities, peacekeeping forces, etc. Work Experience:  Carry out and regularly update capacity mapping of all current and potential actors - government,  Recent experience in Nutrition in Emergency national and international humanitarian programmes including, but not limited to organizations as well as national institutions, the private sector and advocate to donors, NGOs, Malnutrition, Micronutrients, Supplementation, government and other stakeholder on the nutrition and SMART survey methodology. programme needs and services.  Knowledge of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and the cluster approach either 2. Establishment and maintenance of appropriate humanitarian coordination and planning through training or practical experience. mechanisms (20%):  A minimum of 5 years’ experience with either the  Ensure appropriate coordination between all UN and/or NGO Nutrition humanitarian partners (including national and international NGOs, the Red Cross/Red  Experience on emergency response and Crescent Movement, IOM and other international programme coordination organizations active in the sector) as well as national authorities and local structures  Experience working with government agencies,  Ensure the establishment/maintenance of local authorities, international organizations, appropriate sector coordination mechanisms NGOs and communities in the field of Nutrition in including working groups at both national and emergency context regional level: (i) collaborate with the MoH/Nutrition Division in order to promote and facilitate the  Field work experience. Nutrition Thematic Group/GTN; (ii) facilitate the activities of the five national nutrition technical groups; and (iii) ensure the information sharing and Critical Competencies (as per Unicef rules and regular meetings of the sub-national clusters. regulations):  Ensure full integration of the IACS's agreed priority  Leading and Supervising cross-cutting issues, namely human rights, HIV/AIDS, age, gender and environment, utilization  Formulating Strategies and Concepts participatory and community-based approaches. In line with this, promote gender equality by ensuring  Analysing that the needs, contributions and capacities of women and girls as well as men and boys are  Relating and Networking addressed;  Secure commitments from cluster participants in  Persuading and Influencing responding to needs and filling gaps, ensuring an appropriate distribution of responsibilities within the  Creating and Innovating cluster, with clearly defined focal points for specific issues where necessary; Languages: Fluency in French and English required.  Promote emergency response actions while at the Knowledge of the local working language of the duty same time considering the need for early recovery planning as well as prevention and risk reduction station is an asset. concerns; Competency Profile  Ensure effective links with other clusters (with OCHA support), especially Health & Nutrition, WASH, Agriculture and Livelihoods and Education; i) Core Values (Required)  Represent the interests of the Nutrition Cluster in • Commitment • Diversity and Inclusion • Integrity discussions with the Humanitarian Coordinator as ii) Core Competencies (Required) well as donors on prioritization, resource • Communication [ II ] • Working with People [ II ] mobilization and advocacy; • Drive for Result [ II ]  Act as focal point for inquiries on the Nutrition iii) Functional Competencies (Required) Cluster's response plans and operations. • Leading and Supervising [ II ] • Formulating Strategies and Concepts [ II ] • Analyzing [ II ] • Relating and Networking [ II ] • Persuading and 3. Planning and strategy development (20%): Influencing [ II ] • Creating and Innovating [ II ] Ensure predictable action within the cluster for the following;  Needs assessment and analysis; development of standard assessment formats for use within the sector;  Identification of gaps;  Developing/updating agreed response strategies and action plans for the Nutrition Cluster and ensuring that these are adequately reflected in the overall country strategies, such as the Common Humanitarian Action Plan (CHAP) an integral component of the SRP process and the SRP document itself, including mid-year reviews.  Drawing lessons learned from past activities and revising strategies and action plans accordingly;  Develop a transition strategy to provide technical support to the MOH/Nutrition Division in order to take over the tasks and responsibilities of the Cluster. 4. Monitoring and reporting (15%):  Support the Government of Mali MoH Nutrition Division in reinforcing the timely collect and analysis of screening and weekly and monthly admissions data for nutrition treatment programmes;  Collect and analyse data on screening and admissions from non-governmental partners;  Keep up-to-date the database for SAM management from non-governmental partners ;  Ensure an analytical analysis of best available information in order to benchmark progress of the emergency response over time. That is - monitoring indicators (quantity, quality, coverage, continuity and cost) of service delivery which are derived from working towards meeting standards;  Act as information manager for the cluster by ensuring regular reporting against the Nutrition Cluster indicators of service delivery (quantity, quality, coverage, continuity and cost) supports analysis of the Nutrition Cluster in closing gaps and measuring impact of interventions. 5. Advocacy and resource mobilization (10%):  Identify core advocacy concerns, including resource requirements, and contribute key messages to broader advocacy initiatives of the Humanitarian Coordinators and other actors ;  Advocate to facilitate the transition phase towards a government-led nutrition coordination and nutrition emergency response ;  Advocate for donors to fund cluster participants to carry out priority activities in the sector concerned, while at the same time encouraging cluster participants to mobilize resources for their activities through the usual channels.  Act as the focal point for reviewing and ensuring quality control for all the Nutrition Cluster project submitted for Flash Appeal, CERF and other funding mechanisms

 As agreed by the IASC Principals, ensure that the Nutrition Cluster lead agency is responsible for acting as the provider of last resort to meet agreed priority needs and will be supported by the HC in their resource mobilization efforts in this regard. Under the principal of the “Provider of last resort”, the Nutrition Cluster Coordinator will liaise with the Cluster Lead Agency UNICEF to ensure that gaps are filled 6. Training and capacity building of national/local authorities and civil society (25%):  Promote and support training of the Nutrition Cluster partners personnel and build the capacity of all the Nutrition partners based on the mapping and understanding of available capacity ;  Support efforts to strengthen the capacity of the national/local authorities and civil society ;  Build capacities at national level to ensure the transition towards a government-led nutrition coordination (to strengthen capacities on IM, coordination skills, data management, data analysis and data recording, as well as to organize, conduct and facilitate meetings).

APPROVED BY: Aboudou Karimou ANDELE Gianfranco ROTIGLIANO Date: Chief of Survival Section Head of Office