Summary
Date Posted: Monday, August 29, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Health & Nutrition Specialist

About Us
Food for the Hungry (FH/U) is a Christian international relief and development organization that has been working in Uganda since 1989.
FH is currently operating programs in Asia, Latin America and Africa with support offices in the UK, Canada, Switzerland, United States of America and Japan. FH's primary goal is to end all forms of poverty World-wide. FH promotes practice of performance, accountability, and risk management in line with FH's "Transforming Field Experience(TFE)"re-imagination initiative.
In Uganda, FH is operational in the Districts of Adjumani, Kitgum, Lamwo, Kween, Mbale, Namutumba and Amudat Districts implementing programs in four main sectors of Education; Food Security and Livelihoods; Health/Nutrition and Disaster Risk Reduction, with the Head office located in Kampala.
FH Culture: All we do, and how we do it, seeks to promote God's beauty, goodness, and truth in a broken world. As such, we are defined by our ability to make people's lives measurably better, our ability to deliver impact is the measure of our collective success.
For we know that we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God has already prepared in advance for us to do. At Food for the Hungry, we operate under a set of values called Heartbeat Values.
FH/Uganda is actively seeking for qualified candidates committed to its Heartbeat and Corporate Strategy to fill the career opening above on a rolling basis;

Job Summary
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Program Director (PD), this role will be part of the Program Delivery Team. The H&N Specialist will support in making FHU a partner of choice in Health and Nutrition Programming in Uganda. Provide substantive and hands-on support to Area Programs (APs) and technical officers to implement the FH H&N technical projects. Support FH Uganda Program in technical and programmatic project management, design, proposal writing, representation and monitoring of Health and Nutrition sector within FH multi-sector development programs and projects that are consistent with the Health and Nutrition and projects that are consistent with the Health and Nutrition technical program and Transforming Field Experience (TFE) re-imagination initiative, and to collaborate with other sectors to develop integrated programming.

Duties and Responsibilities
Key Result #1: Proposal Development and Technical Quality Assurance (60%)
Key Result #2: Strengthen Visibility and Reporting (20%)
Key Result #3: External Relations (15%)
Key Result #4: Staff Development (5%)

Education & Experience
• A minimum 7+ years of previous experience in health and nutrition programming
• Experience developing proposals in the health, public health and or nutrition.
• Experience in mainstreaming gender, environment, peace-building, disability and or institutional development (NNGO and government).
• Experience working with Government and other partners (Multi-lateral Agencies, private donors).
• Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Food science and Technology, Nutrition and dietetics or related sciences from accredited university.
• MSc in Public Health, Nutrition and project management is desirable


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 72

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

NOTE: *Complete Job Descriptions are available by contacting ckisakye@fh.org  or iaber@fh.org 
Employment with FH offers an attractive package which includes; a good salary commensurate to one's role, a good medical insurance package for staff and dependents, provident fund, GPA and provision for other statutory requirements.
FHU is an equal opportunity employer.
All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply by Clearly stating the position applied for in the Subject line and submitting only electronic copies in one pdf file not more than 25MB of an application letter, a detailed CV, contact telephone numbers, copies of relevant testimonials/certificates, names/contact details of three referees, addressed to:
The Human Resources Manager, Food for the Hungry Uganda Email: recruitment-fhuganda@fh.org  not later than Friday 9th September, 2022 at 4:30pm.
Consider your application unsuccessful if you don't hear from us by 30th September, 2022.


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