Spain: Nutricional Coordinator for the Emergency Team

Action Against Hunger is an international humanitarian organization committed to saving the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger.

Why joining the Emergency Team (ER)?

The primary mandate of the ER pool is to address international humanitarian crisis either in countries where we are present or in countries with no Action against Hunger presence.

Besides crisis, the ER may be requested to organize exploratory missions in order to open new country programs.

In order to promote crisis and disaster preparedness, ER pool members will provide guidelines, training and preparation to strengthen capacity reaction to crisis.

ER Pool members may also bring specific support to existing teams in order to achieve mission objectives.

You'll contribute to ending world hunger by...

• Coordinating, supporting and guiding the organization, to optimize the resources and to guarantee the maximum impact of our interventions and emergency strategies.
• Giving the right info for decisions makings

Your role will be focus in:

• Monitoring and early alert: Monitoring the humanitarian situation of the geographical zones assigned and contributing to the draft and diffusion of reports about humanitarian crises
• Preparation for disasters: Identifying strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities in the area of Health and Nutrition between the missions and the global system of emergency response of the organization

• Emergency Context and interventions: you will be responsible for the identification of priority zones of intervention, of the vulnerable population and of the not covered needs. You will have to design the strategy of intervention in Health / nutrition.

• Coordination: With emergency team, donors, country directors and rest of the actors that take part in the activity zone about Health/Nutrition

• Support and technical development

This is your position if you:

• You have a minimum 5 years humanitarian work in an emergency and/or a development context
• You have a degree as Doctor, Nurse or Nutritionist or Formation in Public health or International Health
• You have at least 3 years of senior management experience
• You have worked previously in Emergency context
• You have advance knowledge of donor guidelines and procedures (ECHO, EU, UNICEF, DFID, BPRM, GAC and others.)
• You speak languages: Domain of Spanish, French and English (at least two)
• You have a Computing domain with an advanced user level
• You Have physic and psychological resistance
• You have availability to get to the field immediately in case of emergency

And what do we offer?

• We offer immediate incorporation to a dynamic international network with an international career development
• A two years contract
• A competitive remuneration package plus other attractive and specific benefits as part of the Emergency Team
• The position based in Madrid with frequent displacements to field. When travelling to the field on a mission, transfer, accommodations, maintenance and per diem expenses are covered.
• 25 working days of paid leave per year
• Meal Bouchers

We will only consider the candidacies received by our online service. Please click in the following link to accede to the service:

https://employ.acf-e.org/

Note. - Given the urgency of this position, the vacancy may close before the deadline. For more information about this position, visit our Website www.accioncontraelhambre.org in case of not find it published here means that the selection process has been closed.