{"id":7063,"date":"2018-06-18T15:34:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T12:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2018-06-18T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T12:34:43","slug":"job-vacancy-at-acdi-voca-nutrition-advisor-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/job-vacancy-at-acdi-voca-nutrition-advisor-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Vacancy at ACDI\/VOCA &#8211; Nutrition Advisor, Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Overview<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Advisor, Tanzania<br \/>\nType Long-term<\/p>\n<p>We are currently seeking a Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Advisor for an anticipated USAID-funded Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Support Activity (MSNA) project based in Tanzania. MSNA will provide household level support to agriculture, nutrition, family planning, and water and sanitation activities.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- TEXTHOME --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4564014896468666\" data-ad-slot=\"8024908761\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<b>Responsibilities<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Identify and address opportunities to increase household production, purchase, and consumption of nutrient rich foods.<br \/>\nProvide technical assistance and monitoring for nutrition-sensitive agricultural activities and services.<br \/>\nApply gender-sensitive best practices to develop innovative approaches to address barriers to intrahousehold allocation of food and decision making over household nutrition.<br \/>\nRepresent ACDI\/VOCA interests during meetings related to nutrition-sensitive agriculture and other subjects with USAID Mission personnel, host-country government officials, international organizations, local and international NGOs, international donors, and others interested in ACDI\/VOCA activities.<br \/>\nCoordinate with relevant staff in regional offices as needed.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- linkAD.2 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4564014896468666\" data-ad-slot=\"3390598296\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<b>Qualifications<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bachelor&#8217;s degree in international nutrition, health, food security or other relevant field. Advanced degree preferred.<\/li>\n<li>Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible experience working on large donor-funded projects focusing on nutrition, agriculture, sanitation and hygiene, food security or other related technical areas.<\/li>\n<li>Experience in private sector agricultural production, marketing, or sales preferred.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated successful experience in implementing programs aimed at improving nutrition through multi-sectoral strategies.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated history of providing highly effective technical and managerial leadership on projects of similar size and scope.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated understanding of nutrition-sensitive agriculture concepts in Tanzanian context.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of social and behavior change communication theory and techniques.<\/li>\n<li>Experience with USAID is preferred.<\/li>\n<li>Willingness to travel required. Applicants may be expected to relocate to regional offices depending on solicitation requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Fluency in English required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- linkAD.2 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4564014896468666\" data-ad-slot=\"3390598296\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nPlease apply online at\u00a0<a href=\"httpss:\/\/www.acdivoca.org\/international-jobs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.acdivoca.org\/international-jobs<\/a>. No phone calls please. Only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. ACDI\/VOCA is an equal opportunity employer. Women, minorities, and people from diverse groups are encouraged to apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Advisor, Tanzania Type Long-term We are currently seeking a Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Advisor for an anticipated USAID-funded Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Support Activity (MSNA) project based in Tanzania. MSNA will provide household level support to agriculture, nutrition, family planning, and water and sanitation activities. Responsibilities Identify and address opportunities to increase household production, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tzjobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}