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Job Vacancies United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Position: Nutrition Specialist (Nutrition & HIV Care & Support)
Closing Date: Friday, 27 August 2010
Location: United States of America (the) – New York, NY

Purpose of the Position
Under the general guidance of the Chief of section and in close collaboration with other of the UNICEF NYHQ HIV team, you will provide technical support to UNCIEF country and regional offices and government counterparts on implementing the UNICEF strategy on nutrition and HIV care and support, including micronutrients, acute malnutrition and on the UN HIV and infant feeding framework for priority actions. You will provide guidance to the further development of UNICEF’s strategies on nutrition and HIV/AIDS, in close collaboration with key partners. You will provide support for the implementation of the other units work plan on issues of HIV and infant feeding, Micronutrients and acute malnutrition.

Key Expected Results
1.You will provide technical and programme support on planning for and implementation of the UNICEF strategies on Nutrition,HIV care and support, including malnutrition in the context of HIV, and HIV and infant feeding, to Regional and Country Offices. This will include participation in the formulation and development of programme goals, strategies, programme and technical guidance on Nutrition and HIV care and support, HIV and infant feeding and malnutrition in the context of HIV at the agency and interagency levels with relevant partners including the WHO technical advisory Group on nutrition and HIV.
2. You will provide intensive technical and programme support to the UNICEF regional and country offices on accelerating action on nutrition and HIV. Support the documenting of experiences and lessons learned and based on that support the further development of guidance on UNICEF’s role in nutrition and HIV.
3. You will coordinate with other partners working on nutrition, PMTCT and Pediatric HIV care, support and treatment issues including the Inter Agency Task Teams (IATT) on PMTCT and Pediatric HIV, and Children Affected by AIDS in developing global program strategies, training materials on HIV & IF and Nutrition & HIV Care and Support, and support the regional offices build their capacity to address Nutrition and HIV related issues. Support resource mobilization to facilitate achievement of programme goals.
4. You will participate in UNICEF NYHQ and Regional HIV care and support, OVCs and PMTCT team meetings and activities and provide technical and programme support to the implementation of the workplans of these teams.
5. You will support operational research in the area of Nutrition and HIV care and support, including malnutrition in the context of HIV and HIV and infant feeding where required. Review scientific articles and draft documents for programme guidance to ROs and COs in the area of Nutrition and HIV.

Qualifications of Successful Candidate
* Advanced university degree in Nutrition or related technical field.
* Eight years progressively responsible professional work experience at national and international levels in programme planning, management, monitoring and evaluation in related field.
* Fluency in English and another UN language.

Competencies of Successful Candidate
* Communicates effectively to varied audiences, including during formal public speaking.
* Able to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment.
* Sets high standards for quality of work and consistently achieves project goals.
* Has good leadership and supervisory skills; co-ordinates group activities, ensuring that roles within the team are clear.
* Translates strategic direction into plans and objectives.
* Analyzes and integrates diverse and complex quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources.
* Quickly builds rapport with individuals and groups; maintains an effective network of individuals across organizational departments.
* Identifies urgent and potentially difficult decisions and acts on them promptly; initiates and generates team- and department-wide activities.
* Demonstrates, applies and shares expert technical knowledge across the organization.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and gender equality in its workplace. Women and nationals of developing countries are strongly encouraged to apply.

How to apply
If you want a challenging career while improving the lives of children around the world UNICEF, the leading children’s rights organization, would like to hear from you.
Visit us at www.unicef.org/about/employ to register in our new e-Recruitment system and apply to this and other vacancies, quoting E-VN-2010-001773. Applications must be received by 27 August 2010.
Please note that only candidates who are under serious consideration will be contacted.
In the selection of its staff, UNICEF is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as to race, sex or religion, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities: well qualified candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

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