Under the direct supervision of National Nutrition Specialist and the over...
Under the direct supervision of National Nutrition Specialist and the overall guidance of the LIFT Fund Director, the Programme Management Officer is responsible to support the State Nutrition Promotion Committee (S/R-NPC) to deliver on Multi-Sectoral National Plan of Action on Nutrition (MS-NPAN) and initiate implementation.
S/he will need to work closely with the State Health Director and the responsible senior staff at National Nutrition Center, the key technical focal points from each of the MS-NPAN sectors at the State level including the Nutrition Team Leader at the state level, LIFT and MS-NPAN core team at the Union level.
The Programme Management Officer will provide technical and management support to the State -Nutrition Promotion Committee as part of MS-NPAN implementation.
The Programme Management Officer will broadly carry out the following tasks.
1: Finalize State/Region Planning (taking COVID-19 into consideration)
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Support the MS NPAN Core team and State and Region multi-sectoral planning teams to conduct any pertinent planning workshops and facilitate finalization of the plans including costing for the Action Plan in the State/Region where they are operating.
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Support S/R-NPC and sectoral focal in reviewing the existing interventions scale-up projections with the intention of updating them based on risk profiling and priority setting of interventions to respond to nutrition and short term mitigation of COVID 19.
2: Initiate multi-sectoral activities for implementing completed prioritized MS NPANs that responds to mitigate impact of COVID-19 on nutrition and food security)
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Support the State/Region Nutrition Promotion Committee (S/R-NPC) in the programme management and implementation of MS-NPAN with emphasis on response to mitigate impact of COVID-19.
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Support sectoral departments at the sub national level to conduct consultative meetings for jointly implementing prioritized intervention packages for responding to nutrition within the COVID 19 context.
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Schedule and prepare logistical arrangements for S/R-NPC meetings, workshops, etc. on behalf of S/R-NPC.
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Support MS-NPAN Core Group and through engagement with LIFT staff and implementing partners (including RAFT) to ensure that all multi-sectoral action plans and processes are conflict sensitive with active appropriate engagement of non state actors.
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Support MS NPAN Core Group and SUN UN Network in the documentation of meetings and follow up action with timelines and targets.
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Support the MS NPAN Core Group’s work for conducting Capacity Assessment including mapping of key stakeholders, including Government/NGO/civil society and non state actors in the deployment of actions.
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Produce a regular implementation report which describes the progress of MS-NPAN implementation, issues and a clear description of complementarity of actions, and their implication.
3: Establish, implement, and strengthen the M&E system for the MS-NPAN at sub-national level and documentation.
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Support MS NPAN in developing a template for tracking of workplan implementation against targets and timelines for completion of activities.
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Support and facilitate the collection and compilation of key performance data (including baseline) for interventions selected to scale up
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Assist M&E focal points at S/R, NNC and the MS-NPAN core team in collecting required data from stakeholders at the state/region for regular data analysis and report (including summary dashboard) preparation and training of M&E focal points. Support MS NPAN Core team and the state/region joint multi-sectoral M&E team in organizing M&E training for sector department M&E staff.
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Support the MS NPAN Core Group and state/region Nutrition Promotion Committees (NPC) in convening regular (usually monthly) review meetings to discuss implementation of MS NPAN, achievement, challenges
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Provide timely report to State Health Director and LIFT FMO
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