Health & Nutrition Technical Advisor - 2025627

Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten?  Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering. If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.  ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.
Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.
POSITION SUMMARY: As a member of a multi-sector programming advisory team, this role’s primary function is to grow and support the scope and quality of World Relief’s Health and Nutrition portfolio and delivery technical assistance to Country Offices in alignment with International Programs Strategy. Primary responsibilities include: business development, program technical assistance, strategy, learning and impact, and external engagement.  World Relief’s existing Health and Nutrition programs have a focus on the following:  • Implementation and capacity strengthening support for primary health care, mobile clinics, community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), addressing chronic malnutrition, community mobilization, and social behavior change communication; • Specialized technical support in maternal, newborn, infant, and young child nutrition, nutrition programs in emergencies, combatting stunting, and nutrition-sensitive programs; • Integrated disease outbreak response, including clinical management of cases, risk communication and community engagement.  Areas of ongoing growth for World Relief’s Health and Nutrition programs include provision of integrated mental health services in primary care settings and growing provision of NCD care.        

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Business Development (40%) 
• Grow WR’s Health and Nutrition portfolio and funding through leads development, pre-positioning, and the development of high-quality concept notes and proposals. 
• Collaborate with the Business Development team to create guidance and equip country offices in relevant partner mapping and relationship development.
• Provide technical and partnership support and advice on prepositioning and lead development for health and nutrition new business, including supporting the creation of capacity statements, partner approaches, case studies, donor pitches, etc.
• Work with WR COs to explore new opportunities for implementing health and nutrition programming, in alignment with the organizational and sectoral strategies. 
• In collaboration with the BD department, design project strategies, develop high quality proposals, and write concept notes and proposals in collaboration with country-level staff and other WR HO TAs. 
• Co-design approaches with country teams through the facilitation of design workshops and development of appropriate theory of change, logframes and indicators.
• Review proposals to ensure compliance with donor requirements for technical sections. 
• Ensure that health and nutrition proposals include appropriate budget for critical costs including technical service provision, pharmaceuticals and relevant staff capacity development. 
 
• Program Quality and Technical Assistance (30%) 
• Act as global technical lead for supporting implementation and continued growth of World Relief’s Health and Nutrition programming. This includes acting as technical lead for WR’s program portfolio covering health, nutrion, and WASH and supervision to contractors who support these portfolios.
• Provide technical support to country offices with assessments, program planning and design, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building, and program quality assurance. 
• Strengthen CO capacity to prepare implementation and monitoring and evaluation plans.
• Work with COs to ada