I. Job Context:

ICCO Cooperation (www.icco-cooperation.org) is an international organization, whose mission is to end poverty and injustice in the global south, in partnership with enterprising people. We invest in the power and dreams of entrepreneurial people, stimulate their entrepreneurial spirit, and connect them with businesses, governments and social organizations. 

ICCO Cooperation is planning to implement EU funded “Sustained Opportunities for Nutrition Governance (SONGO) project” to improve maternal and child nutrition in Kurigram and Gaibandha districts. The SONGO project is 5 years duration with 4 inter-linked outcomes; (1) establishing upazila nutrition governance, (2) improving maternal and child health, nutrition (3) improving WASH practices (4) enhancing availability and access to safe and nutritious food.

SONGO project is seeking an experienced Technical Officer for capacity building of PNGOs staff (union and community facilitators), government line department (department of agriculture, livestock, health and nutrition), Nutrition Sales Agents (NSAs) and to establish nutrition governance at Upazila level.

II.            Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Contextualize and actualize assessment of main challenges and opportunities for nutrition improvement and infant and young child feeding practices.
• Contribute to the design and validation of intervention strategies, based on different types of research at different levels;
• Assist to select Nutrition Sales Agents and Community Facilitators at target unions.
• Train PNGO staff, community clinic representatives for quality service delivery to improve maternal and child nutrition.
• Establish a multi-stakeholder platform to establish nutrition governance at upazila level.
• Support nutrition multi-sectoral planning, budgeting, prioritization and implementation
• Strengthen Adolescent Friendly Health Corners at Union Health and Family Welfare Centers
• Identify key food and nutrition messages, local Nutrition Sales Agents (NSA) and communication/ marketing channels with a specific focus on adolescents, mothers, infants and young children to address malnutrition.
• Assist to develop capacity building of NSAs for nutrition messaging and business nutrition business.
• Coordinate with government line department and other stakeholders at upazila level.
• Provide training to public agents (DAE, DLS, DoF) on the provision of incentives, technical and input support that improves climate resilient agricultural production and leverages the effects of the existing demonstration plots
• Establish networking relationships with the public-private sectors and other partner organizations.
• Establish strong working relationships with all consortium members and develop an in-depth understanding of the activities, support needs and strengths of each partner with regards their respective implementation.
• Support to implement the BCC toolkits such as mobile movies sessions, community session, individual counseling on MIYCF, WASH-Nut session and ICT based monitoring.
• Meeting with relevant (public and NGO sectors) stakeholders at Upazila level
• Contribute to form, sensitize and train inclusive Homestead Producer Groups, including (extreme) poor HHs members, promoting climate resilient production of divers and nutritious food, primarily for own consumption through direct and intensive skills and knowledge dissemination.
• Assist to establish linkage with the government and NGOs to get social protection services for extreme poor/vulnerable HHs
• Train private sector extension agents and create linkage between producers, input and output market actors for better price and farmer centre at Federation level
• Advocate to private sector, NGOs, Public Health sector, government, and other stakeholders on topics approved by the project.
• Ensure that planning and monitoring tools are developed and standardized, and that data is regularly collected, based on the overall PMEL mechanism.
•  Compile and analyses monitoring data and produce monthly monitoring reports.

IV.          Working Conditions:

• Working days from Sunday to Thursday with 40 hours per week. This position may be required to work some overtime hours to attend meetings such as the Annual Audit.
• Any other tasks assigned by the supervisor from time to time.
• Yearly renewable the contract based on fund availability and performance.
• Have to follow ICCO HR, Admin and Finance related policy.

V.       Key contacts:

Project Manager, Operation Lead, Advisor, PNGOs, Manager, HR & Admin and Finance department of ICCO

VI.    Key Qualifications:

• At least 5 years professional experience of nutrition / primary health care principles/training
• At least bachelor degree or higher level qualification, preferably in nutrition or in another relevant field.
• Experience in the field of nutrition messaging/ Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) methodologies, nutrition business and homestead food production
• Proven experience with multi-stakeholder platform (private and public sectors) will be added value for the position.
• Training facilitation skill for the capacity of PNGO staff, local government institution and other stakeholders.
• Working experience with government health and nutrition department specially community clinics.
• Willingness to drive motorcycle in remote areas.
• The ability to cope with basic living conditions in the field and willing to work any remote upazila of Gaibandha and Kurigram districts.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skill, problem solving skills, strong value based commitment to right based approach
• Good computer skills in MS Office.