MAJOR RESPONSIBILITES

% of time

Activity

End Results

30%

Technical Leadership

· Contribute to overall NO strategy as well as Nutrition and WASH Business Plan; ensure nutrition priorities reflected in national strategy

· Develop nutrition and WASH technical approaches, ensuring alignment with NO strategy and regional and global nutrition priorities and cross-sectoral considerations

· Develop nutrition and WASH technical guidance aligned with technical approach

· Develop systems and processes to support programs to have common nutrition approaches

· Ensure ongoing improvements to nutrition programme design to ensure it remains relevant to context, incorporates innovation, by receiving and analysing field-level information

· Remain up to date with public health and nutrition research, policy, guidance and initiatives and ensure dissemination to sub-national staff

· Ensure projects are aligned with NO and regional strategy, and nutrition technical assistance

· Develop and/or contextualize models, methodologies and tools for nutrition programming implementation

· Provide leadership, support and technical guidance to field staff in implementation of health programming with focus on nutrition and use WASH data/information to achieve nutrition targets

· Conduct field visits to ensure nutrition and WASH staff are adequately informed, trained and provided with necessary work tools.

· The NO Nutrition and WASH strategy aligned with NO IPF is developed, contextualized, monitored, reported and communicated internally and externally

· The Nutrition business plan in alignment with NO strategy and SDGs is developed and implemented

· programme communication plan is developed and backed by the technical briefs, implemented and reported: which will define activities, outputs and outcomes to achieve the NO’s strategy.

· Visibility and influence of NO by building synergistic communities of practice among targeted Nutrition and WASH actors are reinforced nationally.

20%

Lead Nutrition and WASH technical Supervision, Quality Assurance, and Improvement

· Receive and review nutrition and WASH reports. May at times need to assist field staff to write these reports

· High quality monitoring, learning, supervision and evaluation of nutrition programs to ensure quality implementation. Includes technical backstopping, reflection, lessons learned events, etc., to ensure programming on track

· Ensure AP designs aligned to nutrition and WASH programming, ensure implementation meets minimum standards

· Liaise with other organizations to collaborate in standard setting

· Participate with M&E team in designing, redesigning and elaborating log frames for nutrition and WASH programming

· Ensure standardization of Nutrition indicators and project models across projects 

· Links with national HMIS (health management information systems)

· Use quantitative/epidemiology/bio-statistics data to inform nutrition programmes

· The technical approach and programme to address barriers to Nutrition and WASH using a solid root cause analysis process is developed

· The process for adaptation and contextualisation Nutrition and WASH related Project Models across NO programmes is supported

· Nutrition and WASH programme quality monitoring and benchmark data is produced to adjust programming to achieve desired outcomes;

· Overall Nutrition and WASH technical programme implementation, budget and quality assurance conducted and inform quarterly and semi-annual reports as well as NO strategy reporting

20%

Document and disseminate evidence-based impacts of Nutrition programmes

· Document nutrition programme data and use it to package NO communications and visibility plans

· Gather evidence of changes and impacts of nutrition and WASH programmes

· Disseminate and report data and evidence of nutrition and WASH programmes

· Provide monthly reports to the Strategy and Programme Quality Director by updating relevant interventions, best practices, lessons learned, challenges, way forward and impact of Nutrition and WASH within WVR programmes

· Compile updated fact sheets on health, nutrition and WASH programming to communicate key programme updates internally and externally

· Nutrition and WASH programme data from researches and evaluations (both primary and secondary data), innovations, and good practice are documented, reflected upon, shared, and utilised to improve programme delivery and quality, position the organisation as thought leaders in education, and influence decision-makers

· Process and impact of Nutrition and WASH projects are documented and reflected upon

· Monthly reports and quality evaluation reports are produced demonstrating lessons learned, impact to vulnerable children and recommendations for future programming in development and emergency settings are documented

· Programme success, lessons learned, innovations and impact for further external publications and marketing with external networks/partners and Communities of Practice undertaken

· Water systems and other Nutrition and WASH related systems are operated

10%

Lead capacity building and staff development

· Assessment of NO Nutrition and WASH staff capacities/competencies

· Communicate capacity building needs to regional Nutrition and WASH staff, develop sector staff capacity building plans with P&C

· Participate in selection of SMEs to assist with capacity needs

· Facilitate capacity building of staff on health and nutrition technical modules and models, public health topics, through trainings, workshops, technical backstopping etc

· Partners, stakeholders and staff are trained on WV project models to implement the programmes that support to meet NO strategy and IPF document

· Data generated from partner assessment is used to develop and implement partner capacity plan

· Nutrition and WASH programme coordinators are coached to meet quality benchmarks and project models

10%

Programme Co-ordination/Integration and networking

· Provide strategic leadership and coordination within the Regional Office for the successful implementation of the NO strategy Nutrition and WASH programmes

• Support coordinator of strategic Nutrition and WASH Workstream targeting to harmonize and lead learning perspectives among in-office staff and projects that implement Nutrition and WASH initiatives in the course of FY2026-FY2030 strategy
• Lead the review of programme or grant designs from Nutrition and WASH perspective and ensure effective integration into all proposal opportunities as required
• Partner with Communications, GAM, IPD and Strategy units to preposition knowledge management products for Nutrition and WASH programmes for branding, Donor engagement and policy influencing purposes

· Represent WV at external workshops, technical forums, etc, engaging with MoH and Ministry of Infrastructures, donors and other health partners. Ensure WV prominent actor at all levels; networking

· Partnership agreements with government institutions, NGOs and international bodies

· Develop strategic partnerships with private sector with guidance of partnership and innovation team in GC. More intentional engagements with private sector/corporates

• Nutrition and WASH programmes coordination established and operationalized at NO

· External Nutrition and WASH stakeholder Relations plan including Government Relations is developed, implemented and reported which focuses on establishing a comprehensive external relations framework for engagement

10%

Programme Development and Resource Mobilization

· Preposition the NO for grants in technical sector, working with national GAM team

· Mapping of donors; understand donor expectations, technical priorities, key strategic approaches

· Track multilateral, bilateral and local funding programs to access resources

· Map potential partners with strengths that would be complementary to WV in filling gaps in a grant opportunity

· Prepare detailed health or sub-sector capability statement at NO level

· Together with GAM, track specific opportunities and make appropriate partnering arrangements. Join in go/no-go decision

· Lead on grant proposals as coordinator of writing team, or grant design, design workshop, interview panels for key personnel

· Prepare and review concept papers and proposals for fund raising, marketing with SOs

· There are increased relevant grant opportunities identified for the NO and are in the grant pipeline

• Proposals submitted are technically sound

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional Experience

• Experience in Nutrition programming
• Proven understanding of national Nutrition and WASH policies and programmes
• Good knowledge on WASH engineering in the context of Rwanda
• Good understanding and experience in programme quality, quality assurance and reporting related to Nutrition programmes

Required Education,

training, license,

registration, and

certification

· Master’s Degree in Public Health, Nutrition, Water engineering or related field.

· A deep knowledge of the health, nutrition and WASH issues that affect the country

· Knowledge and skills in health data management/monitoring & evaluation

• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, time management, demonstrated leadership and good management ability

Preferred Knowledge

and Qualifications

· Strategy development

· Theory of change and logical framework development

· Budget development/management, including knowledge of general accounting and budgeting principles

· Database management, statistical skills and ability to critically evaluate health data

• Mentoring
• Ability to work in a cross-cultural environment

Travel and/or

Work Environment

Requirement

35% of time spent on travel

Physical

Requirements

65% of time spent at office for office work including coordination, policy analysis and communicating results around and Nutrition and WASH programming

Language

Requirements

· Fluency in English and Kinyarwanda; Knowledge of French is an advantage.

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

Contact (within WV or outside WV)

Reason for contact

Frequency of contact

Support Office Programme Management Team Members

Nutrition and WASH programme monitoring

Monthly

Senior Operations Manager

Coordination of programming, issues regarding field staff

Weekly

NO PDQ Managers

Integration, assistance with specialized areas

Monthly

IPD

Overall programming oversight and decision making

Monthly

National Director

National strategy development, implementation and decision making

Quarterly

Regional HN (Health and Nutrition) Director

Alignment with regional and global HN strategy

Monthly

Regional HN Technical Advisors

Technical guidance, capacity building and mentoring support

Monthly

National external technical partners

Representation, advocacy and partnership

Monthly