Director – Thousand Days Secretariat
United States of America (the) - Washington DC
InterAction &Thousand Days Movement
About the Thousand Days Movement:
Launched by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the September 2010 Millennium Development Goal Summit, the Thousand Days Movement aims to increase understanding about the crisis of child undernutrition and to encourage active support for interventions to combat it. Thousand Days is a time-bound, results-oriented effort to leverage aligned and effective implementation of the Scaling Up Nutrition Framework and Roadmap (SUN) by international nutrition advocates, governments, and businesses. The objective of this movement is to focus attention on the priority actions within SUN – and in particular around the critical 1,000 day window from pregnancy to 2 years of age – to improve child nutrition and health.
The U.S. Department of State, InterAction, and the Global Alliance to Improve Nutrition (GAIN) are now fostering a U.S.-specific advocacy movement that supports the broader 1,000 Days effort. These partners are creating a Secretariat to serve as a resource and to encourage actors across all sectors to engage their organization, company, or constituency around the call for increased public and private investments in evidence-based maternal and child nutrition activities and investments. InterAction holds fiduciary responsibility for the effort’s Secretariat.
This position will report to the Thousand Days Management Group, which consists of principals at InterAction and GAIN, with close collaboration from the U.S. Department of State. The Director will report to the Management Group on Thousand Days progress and activities, as well as be assigned work from the Management Group. The Director will also work with the Advisory Board of representatives from Thousand Days stakeholders, including SUN, the private sector, the U.S. government and NGOs, to develop Thousand Days’ partnerships and direction. The Director will help the Advisory Board form a Nutrition Taskforce of corporate and NGO technical nutrition representatives to inform Thousand Days’ communications and website content while creating multi-stakeholder partnerships.
About the Position:
Position Title: Director
Position Type: Full-time, two-year committed funding
Location: Washington, D.C.
Reporting to: Thousand Days Management Group
Responsibilities:
- Oversee overall Thousand Days effort and deliver key milestones as set by the Management Group.
- Engage and leverage stakeholders (U.S. government, NGOs, private sector) at the highest level to encourage nutrition-related partnerships.
- Help establish the Nutrition Taskforce and Advisory Board, and serve as the primary interface between these groups and the Thousand Days Secretariat.
- Help establish partnerships within the Nutrition Taskforce and other relevant stakeholders.
- Contribute to Thousand Days strategic thinking and planning while identifying and developing new partnerships to advance Thousand Days’ strategic goals.
- Build and maintain solid relationships with the staff of Thousand Days stakeholder organizations, U.S. government officials, donors, and counterpart NGOs in northern and southern countries to attain mutual goals and increase nutrition investments.
- Work with high-level partners to help coordinate at least six in-country/D.C.-based high-level events.
- Work with the Advisory Board, Management Group, Nutrition Taskforce and key stakeholders on Thousand Days messages, communications, actions, alignment, and outputs.
- Liaise with the InterAction’s Strategic Impact Team’s mapping and member outreach project staff on the stakeholder alignment and mapping initiative to ensure its success.
- Ensure thousanddays.org is properly resourced and updated.
- Outreach to the U.S. private sector concerning nutrition products and issues.
- Work to align mapped countries’ nutrition actors with the host governments through outreach and benchmark assessments.
- Represent Thousand Days in the U.S. and abroad at key meetings, panels, and conferences.
Candidate Requirements/Qualifications:
- Five to seven years of advocacy/policy experience in the fields of international development, nutrition, or health.
- Demonstrated capacity to build and lead coalitions toward common goals.
- Experience working as a development professional both overseas and in the U.S. with a nonprofit organization, corporation, government or research institution.
- Work collaboratively with a diverse team of professionals.
- Must be able to convincingly and effectively convey information about Thousand Days, maternal/child health, and child under-nutrition in both oral presentations and in writing.
- Demonstrate effective management or supervisory experience.
- Master’s degree or higher in international development or a related field.
Physical Requirements:
There are no extraordinary physical requirements for the performance of the essential functions of this position. InterAction will make reasonable accommodation to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Salary & Benefits
The salary for this position will be in the low $100,000 range consummate with experience.
About InterAction:
InterAction is the largest coalition of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) focused on the world’s poor and most vulnerable people. InterAction leads and mobilizes its members, U.S.-based international nonprofits, to take collective action, improve the impact of their programs, increase their global reach, and advocate for efforts that advance human well-being around the world. Collectively, InterAction’s 188 members work in every developing country. The U.S. public shows its support for this work through direct contributions to InterAction members. InterAction leverages the impact of this private support by advocating for the expansion of U.S. government investments and by insisting that policies and programs are responsive to the realities of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations.
- Email cover letter and resume to jobapplications@interaction.org by February 15, 2011.
- Put “ TD D ” on the subject line.
- Applications will be reviewed as they are received.
- No calls please.
- Due to the expected volume of interest, only candidates considered will be contacted.
Thank you for your interest
Deadline: Open until filled, with applications preferred by 02/15/2011.
InterAction &Thousand Days Movement
About the Thousand Days Movement:
Launched by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the September 2010 Millennium Development Goal Summit, the Thousand Days Movement aims to increase understanding about the crisis of child undernutrition and to encourage active support for interventions to combat it. Thousand Days is a time-bound, results-oriented effort to leverage aligned and effective implementation of the Scaling Up Nutrition Framework and Roadmap (SUN) by international nutrition advocates, governments, and businesses. The objective of this movement is to focus attention on the priority actions within SUN – and in particular around the critical 1,000 day window from pregnancy to 2 years of age – to improve child nutrition and health.
The U.S. Department of State, InterAction, and the Global Alliance to Improve Nutrition (GAIN) are now fostering a U.S.-specific advocacy movement that supports the broader 1,000 Days effort. These partners are creating a Secretariat to serve as a resource and to encourage actors across all sectors to engage their organization, company, or constituency around the call for increased public and private investments in evidence-based maternal and child nutrition activities and investments. InterAction holds fiduciary responsibility for the effort’s Secretariat.
This position will report to the Thousand Days Management Group, which consists of principals at InterAction and GAIN, with close collaboration from the U.S. Department of State. The Director will report to the Management Group on Thousand Days progress and activities, as well as be assigned work from the Management Group. The Director will also work with the Advisory Board of representatives from Thousand Days stakeholders, including SUN, the private sector, the U.S. government and NGOs, to develop Thousand Days’ partnerships and direction. The Director will help the Advisory Board form a Nutrition Taskforce of corporate and NGO technical nutrition representatives to inform Thousand Days’ communications and website content while creating multi-stakeholder partnerships.
About the Position:
Position Title: Director
Position Type: Full-time, two-year committed funding
Location: Washington, D.C.
Reporting to: Thousand Days Management Group
Responsibilities:
- Oversee overall Thousand Days effort and deliver key milestones as set by the Management Group.
- Engage and leverage stakeholders (U.S. government, NGOs, private sector) at the highest level to encourage nutrition-related partnerships.
- Help establish the Nutrition Taskforce and Advisory Board, and serve as the primary interface between these groups and the Thousand Days Secretariat.
- Help establish partnerships within the Nutrition Taskforce and other relevant stakeholders.
- Contribute to Thousand Days strategic thinking and planning while identifying and developing new partnerships to advance Thousand Days’ strategic goals.
- Build and maintain solid relationships with the staff of Thousand Days stakeholder organizations, U.S. government officials, donors, and counterpart NGOs in northern and southern countries to attain mutual goals and increase nutrition investments.
- Work with high-level partners to help coordinate at least six in-country/D.C.-based high-level events.
- Work with the Advisory Board, Management Group, Nutrition Taskforce and key stakeholders on Thousand Days messages, communications, actions, alignment, and outputs.
- Liaise with the InterAction’s Strategic Impact Team’s mapping and member outreach project staff on the stakeholder alignment and mapping initiative to ensure its success.
- Ensure thousanddays.org is properly resourced and updated.
- Outreach to the U.S. private sector concerning nutrition products and issues.
- Work to align mapped countries’ nutrition actors with the host governments through outreach and benchmark assessments.
- Represent Thousand Days in the U.S. and abroad at key meetings, panels, and conferences.
Candidate Requirements/Qualifications:
- Five to seven years of advocacy/policy experience in the fields of international development, nutrition, or health.
- Demonstrated capacity to build and lead coalitions toward common goals.
- Experience working as a development professional both overseas and in the U.S. with a nonprofit organization, corporation, government or research institution.
- Work collaboratively with a diverse team of professionals.
- Must be able to convincingly and effectively convey information about Thousand Days, maternal/child health, and child under-nutrition in both oral presentations and in writing.
- Demonstrate effective management or supervisory experience.
- Master’s degree or higher in international development or a related field.
Physical Requirements:
There are no extraordinary physical requirements for the performance of the essential functions of this position. InterAction will make reasonable accommodation to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Salary & Benefits
The salary for this position will be in the low $100,000 range consummate with experience.
About InterAction:
InterAction is the largest coalition of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) focused on the world’s poor and most vulnerable people. InterAction leads and mobilizes its members, U.S.-based international nonprofits, to take collective action, improve the impact of their programs, increase their global reach, and advocate for efforts that advance human well-being around the world. Collectively, InterAction’s 188 members work in every developing country. The U.S. public shows its support for this work through direct contributions to InterAction members. InterAction leverages the impact of this private support by advocating for the expansion of U.S. government investments and by insisting that policies and programs are responsive to the realities of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations.
How to apply
To APPLY:- Email cover letter and resume to jobapplications@interaction.org by February 15, 2011.
- Put “ TD D ” on the subject line.
- Applications will be reviewed as they are received.
- No calls please.
- Due to the expected volume of interest, only candidates considered will be contacted.
Thank you for your interest
Deadline: Open until filled, with applications preferred by 02/15/2011.
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