Pilot Project Manager Job Vacancy: Action Against Hunger-USA

Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF) is an international network committed to saving the lives of malnourished children and their families while ensuring access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger.

Closing date: 01 Jul 2009

Location: Kenya - Mandera

Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF) is an international network committed to saving the lives of malnourished children and their families while ensuring access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger.

Action Against Hunger has pursued its vision of a world without hunger for nearly three decades, combating hunger in emergency situations of conflict, natural disaster, and chronic food insecurity.

As part of the ACF International Network, our 6,000 staff work in over 40 countries carrying out innovative, life-saving programs in nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, public health, and advocacy. Our programs reach some 5 million people each year, restoring dignity, self-sufficiency, and independence to vulnerable populations throughout the world.

Basic position description:

This post is a mix between field level and office work. The position consists in the implementation, the monitoring and the evaluation of the study on prevention of acute malnutrition through blanket distributions of RUF to children less than 6-24 months in vulnerable communities for 6 months. The pilot project has completed 4 of the 6 RUF distributions and the pilot project manager will manage, monitor, evaluate and report on the final 2 distributions and the follow up final reporting.

Hand Over Period

• In direct collaboration with the current Pilot Project Manager (who will finish her assignment on July 15, 2009) and support from the nutrition program manager, CMN and HQ Nutrition Technical Advisor, ensure a proper knowledge and understanding of the program from beginning to the current situation (including the constraints in the field, the design of the methodology, the reading and understanding of the relevant literature, the context of the targeted communities, the data collection process and tools and the blanket feeding team to manage.
• Ensure proper introduction and communication with the targeted communities and the contacts of relevant identified partners at international level.
• Concentrate during the month of June (the 5th distribution) on managing the field team for distribution of RUF, measurements and recording of beneficiaries, data collection in the field while the current pilot project manager enters and cleans all data from beginning of the project until July 15, 2009.
• Work closely with the current pilot project manager from the end of the 5 th distribution to July 13th to understand and own the information collected previously in the project (so as to make a proper final report for possible journal publication).
  

Management and Monitoring

• Supervises the technical work of the field team in their daily activities to ensure the respect of the protocols developed for the program through visits to the programmes.
• Ensure proper communication with the targeted communities all along the program.
• Ensure timely data collection and reporting
• Supervise and support the work of the blanket feeding program assistant (non-technical).
• Coordinates and manages to final completion a SMART integration survey after the final distribution (6th Distribution in July).
• Coordinates with the other ACF departments in ACF and the other programs in the nutrition department.
• Produce monthly reports and end of program evaluation report
• Is available for solving any problems arising in the field
  

Reporting

• Analyses the results and feeds back to the teams
• Proposes and initiates improvements according to the findings, the analysis, the needs and ACF general strategy.
• Participates in the regular ACF planning meetings
• Identifies and participates, together with the nutritional surveillance program manager, in the nutrition meetings with partners (NGOs, MoH, UNICEF, WFP, donors …) at district and national level.
• Participate, in partnership with the CMN and the HOM, in nutrition program donor report (proposal, quarterly, final reports)
• Prepares monthly activity reports (compilation of the activities on the base and activity report) with a qualitative look at the program.
• Analyse and report the findings of the program on regular basis and at the end of the program.
• Participates in the final reporting and in the scientific research articles

Supply Pipeline

• Coordinates the orders and supply of food and non food items with the organizations in charge of the supplies and with ACF logistics department

Communication

• Communicates regularly with the HQ counterpart
• Communicates regularly with other nutrition team for coordination, troubleshooting and technical and strategic advises.
• Communicates with the coordination team, principally the CMN.
• Communicates with the logistics and administration departments in order to have a good follow up of respective departments (supply requests, stocks, etc. and budget and expense follow up)
• Communicates externally with the other organizations and authorities
• Communicates with the technical responsible in the HQ when required

Qualifications:

• Masters degree or PhD in public health or nutrition.
• Capacity to prepare, conduct and report a comprehensive research study is essential.
• Writing skills must be excellent in order to prepare a final report for journal publication.
• Experience in management of acute malnutrition
• Strong management experience is essential.
  

How to apply

Please apply online through our website: http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/get-involved/jobs/field/pilot-project-manager-kenya