| Job Location: | Kabul |
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| Nationality: | National |
| Category: | Health Care Management Program |
| Employment Type: | Full Time |
| Salary: | AAH Salary Scale |
| Vacancy Number: | AAH/AFG-2025-170 |
| No. Of Jobs: | 1 |
| City: | Kabul |
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| Organization: | Action Against Hunger |
| Years of Experience: | A minimum of five years of professional experience in Afghanistan (Central Region preferred) in or more of the following areas is required: nutrition, public health, nutrition planning and management, or maternal, infant and child health/nutrition care. E |
| Contract Duration: | End of December 2024 (Extendable) |
| Gender: | Male/Female |
| Education: | University degree in one of the following fields is required: nutrition, public health, nutritional epidemiology, global/international health and nutrition, health/nutrition research, policy and/or management, health sciences, nutritional epidemiology, o |
| Close date: | 2025-01-19 |
Action Against Hunger/Action Contre La Faim (AAH/ACF) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that was created in France in 1979. AAH/ACF has been active in Afghanistan in the medical, nutrition, food security, and water and sanitation fields since 1995. AAH/ACF improved access to health and nutrition services for the most vulnerable people, who live in remote areas without a local health system. In particular, the country team supported pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under five, who are at greater risk of malnutrition. Nutrition programmes rely on an integrated approach, addressing both primary and underlying causes, in order to have a lasting impact on nutritional status. The country team worked at community level, in villages and at provincial level, strengthening the public health system. It also worked at national level to ensure reliable information about the nutritional situation reached the wider humanitarian community. Covid-19 prevention was integrated into all interventions and additional response activities were implemented, such as the disinfection of health facilities and public places, cash assistance, psychosocial support and the distribution of hygiene kits to affected populations.
Job Purpose
The overall purpose of the Central Deputy Coordinator is to support Central Region Cluster Coordinator to effectively support the CRC to provide leadership and facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent and effective response by partners in the sub national nutrition cluster.
The Afghanistan Nutrition Cluster was created in 2008 after the country adopted the IASC cluster system following recommendations by the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) when the global food price crisis led to increased food insecurity at household level in many vulnerable Afghan communities. The main objective of the cluster system establishment in the country was to strengthen humanitarian coordination and ensure a predictable and accountable nutrition response as part of the humanitarian reform that was started in 2005. The nutrition cluster has evolved since then providing more guidance on nutrition response to both man-made and natural hazards the country deals with constantly.
The Nutrition cluster is currently functional and well established at national level, with five sub national clusters at the zonal level in Central, eastern, western, Northern, and southern regions, holding regular scheduled meetings and calling extraordinary and adhoc meetings when necessary. The nutrition cluster is led by UNICEF with the support from NGOs as guided by the IASC. Through a Letter of Agreement, Action Against Hunger seconds a National Deputy Cluster Coordinator to UNICEF.
Effective and efficient cluster management is a shared responsibility held by all Nutrition Cluster partners. The Sub-national Nutrition Cluster is chaired by the Sub-national Nutrition Cluster Coordinator as the impartial representative of the cluster as a whole and is responsible for the day-to-day coordination and facilitation of the work of the nutrition cluster. The Chair will ensure that partners participate in, assume their minimum commitments to the Nutrition Cluster and place Affected Populations at the center of action. The Nutrition Cluster Deputy Coordinator is from the NGOs represented at the sub-national level. The Central Region Nutrition Subnational Cluster Deputy Coordinator will be expected to work with the Central Region Nutrition Subnational Cluster Coordinator in leading Nutrition subcluster operations.
Mission 1: Informing strategic decision-making for the humanitarian response
Mission 2: Support Coordination of cluster activities in collaboration with all stakeholders
Mission 3: Monitor the nutrition partners activities
SKILLS & EXPERIENCES REQUIRED FOR THE JOB
Education
Experience
Technical skills
Transverse skills
Managerial skills
Qualified and interested candidates should submit a CV with three Referees indicating the job title and vacancy number of the position in the email subject line.
To Human Resources Department AAH office in Kabul and Field Offices, or can also be emailed to:
vacancies@af-actionagainsthunger.org
Eligible candidates are invited to apply by the earliest possible deadline which is set to 19 Jan 2025.
Do not submit academic certificates with the application. These will be requested if the candidate is selected. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the written test/interview.
Action Against Hunger/Action Contre La Faim is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage women and people with disabilities to apply. ACF/AAH has zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, and abuse (SEA).