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Senior Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor

Save the Children are recruiting an experienced Senior Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor for their London Office. The post holder will manage a Humanitarian Nutrition Advisor and Nutrition Emergency Response Personnel (ERPs) and together they will form our new Humanitarian Nutrition Team. The Humanitarian Nutrition team will play a central role in achieving our organisational nutrition and child survival breakthroughs working closely with the wider hunger reduction team.

Job Purpose: To manage the development of humanitarian nutrition programming and capacity, ensuring the delivery of high quality, timely, accountable and appropriate humanitarian responses.

Malnutrition is caused by a combination of factors which include a lack of access to food, ill health (through disease, illness and poor hygiene) and impaired infant and young child feeding and care practices. It can have short term consequences such as morbidity, mortality and disability, and long term consequences such as reduced adult size, intellectual ability, economic productivity, reproductive performance and chronic illness and as such malnutrition has implications not only on the individual but also for future generations. Save the Children’s Humanitarian Nutrition activities include rapid and casual assessments and surveys, surveillance and early warning and responseoptions include Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E), Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) (encompassing severe and moderate acute malnutrition programming), micronutrient supplementation, nutrition education and blanket supplementary feeding. Nutrition outcomes are also sought from emergency food security programmes.

How to apply:

For more information and to apply please visit our website www.savethechildren.org.uk/jobs