CARE is a leading humanitarian and development organization dedicated to fighting poverty and social injustice with a special emphasis on rights programming, gender equality, and women and girls.
The Nutrition Team in the Food and water Systems (FWS) Division manages and supports a global portfolio of nutrition programming, provides technical leadership and support to CARE country offices, and strategic direction and innovation to drive program quality, best practices, research, and new business development. CARE’s SFtW and Impact Area Strategy define the team’s approach, which prioritizes social norms change and gender-transformative approaches to nutrition that span food, nutrition and water systems.
CARE is seeking a Director for Nutrition, to lead the organization’s strategic engagement and priorities, ensure the provision of high-quality technical assistance and management of a global portfolio of programs, to identify and promote best practices and innovations, and build the organization’s global capacity and evidence base as it relates to CARE’s “She Feeds the World” framework. S/he reports directly to the Associate Vice President of FWS as part of the Program Strategy and Innovation (PSI) department, supervises two Deputy Directors, and oversees a growing team of eight. In addition to setting the strategic direction of the team, the Director is responsible for building and nurturing relationships across PSI and other CARE units, including Humanitarian Affairs, Advocacy, and new business development, and externally with key donors such as USAID, nutrition communities of practice, research institutes, and universities.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic and technical global leadership on nutrition – 35%, position CARE to be a global leader in nutrition through the promotion of integrated, multisectoral approaches to nutrition and food security that advance the lives of women, girls and marginalized groups.
- New business development and program design – 25%, in coordination with other PSI and fundraising teams, spearhead and coordinate fundraising and resource mobilization strategies to increase and diversify nutrition funding, programming and research.
- Staff management and leadership – 20%, lead a dynamic and growing team of 8-10 senior nutrition and program management professionals, to provide on-demand quality technical assistance, document and promote best practices, and directly manage a portfolio of global nutrition programs.
- Knowledge management and learning – 20%, in collaboration with KML, research, and other teams, develops and supports CARE learning agendas in nutrition and food security, grow the Nutrition unit’s visibility internally and externally, through proactive engagement with CARE communications and technical teams.
Qualifications:
- Post graduate degree in applied/clinical nutrition, public health nutrition, or public health with a concentration in international nutrition or related field.
- Minimum of 15 years of experience leading programming and teams to provide technical guidance or support to successful developmental food security, nutrition-specific, nutrition-sensitive and multi sectoral programs and implementation.
- Minimum of 5 years developing country experience (in-country) country program leadership and implementation positions.
- Strong technical understanding and demonstrable experience in the area of international nutrition programming, including nutrition sensitive and nutrition-specific concepts and programming.
- Ability to lead and collaborate with multistakeholder teams in a global and multicultural environment.
- Proven experience in working in areas of nutrition integration, social accountability, and nutrition resilience.
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