Nutrition Program Manager

• Nigeria Mercy Corps • Maiduguri, Nigeria • via Jobvite Risk Level: ☐ Level 3 ☐Level 2 ☐Level 1 (Level 3: Frequent contact with participants, direct contact with children, access to sensitive data, and/or high level of accountability. Level 2: Some contact with participants; unplanned non-direct contact with children. Level 1: Likely to have no contact with participants or sensitive data)

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action — helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within.

The Program / Department / Team

Mercy Corps has been present in Nigeria since 2012, focusing its interventions on humanitarian assistance, economic development, and conflict mitigation. With the ongoing insurgency in Northeast Nigeria causing the displacement of millions of individuals, Mercy Corps started its humanitarian response in 2014 to address the rising humanitarian needs. Mercy Corps has been implementing multi-sectoral life-saving humanitarian programming across several Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Northeast Nigeria, particularly in Borno State, reaching vulnerable host communities and internally displaced persons (IDPs). Programming spans Nutrition, WASH, Food Security, Cash Assistance, Protection, and early recovery interventions delivered in complex and high-risk environments.

In anticipation of humanitarian funding requiring immediate mobilization and scale-up, Mercy Corps seeks an experienced Nutrition Program Manager to support the rapid start-up and implementation of timely life-saving Nutrition program interventions.

The Nutrition Program manager is a key role in the Mercy Corps’ Nigeria Humanitarian team. The role is critical to the mission and is responsible for delivering quality and impactful technical programming across the Mercy Corps Nigeria mission. The position supports programs across the portfolio funded by multiple donors, supports lessons learned, incorporates MC's global technical expertise, and ensures new business development incorporates technical expertise and experience.

The Nutrition Program Manager will be responsible for providing technical direction and scale-up of the nutrition sector component through program design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting. He/she will take the lead and provide technical support to teams in the set-up as well as scaling up nutrition interventions across country operations, help monitor and improve program quality and relevance, stay current on industry innovation and best practices, write competitive proposals for submission to donors, deliver training, and disseminate information to internal and external partners. S/he will take the lead role in representation at various fora/clusters. The position will monitor the context and implementation environment as well as the program quality to ensure it remains conducive for Nutrition intervention expansion; work with other sectors, i.e., WASH, MPCA, Protection, Early Recovery, and Market System development (ERMS) for better integration and synergies to maximize the impact for program participants.

PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND STRATEGIC PLANNING

• Contribute to and support in carrying out the situational analysis for the nutrition sectors to ensure timely and current data are available for the designing, development and management of nutrition and food security projects.
• Identify opportunities for program and proposal development in line with the MC's and donor guidelines
• Participate in proposal writing and budget development processes for nutrition programs.
• Lead technical assessments as a basis for nutrition program development when necessary to monitor evolving needs of the target communities and adjust the programmatic priorities as necessary.

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