ChildFund is an international child focused development agency working in 33 countries to create lasting and meaningful change in the lives of more than 10.5 million vulnerable, deprived and excluded children, families and communities, regardless of race, creed, gender or national origin. In Indonesia ChildFund has been operating for 34 years since 1973, in areas where the need is the greatest and currently reaches out to 900,000 children and family members in partnership with 50 local NGOs spread across 8 provinces. For more information please visit www.childfund.org
ChildFund Indonesia is currently seeking:
Position: MCH Specialist (Position Code:MCH)
Reporting to: Program Director
Based in: Jakarta
Summary
TheTechnical Specialist –Maternal Child Health and Nutrition reports to the Program Director and is responsible for providing technical guidance on maternal healthand nutritionissues. This includes designing new interventions, preparing program guidelines, monitoring program quality, documenting promising practices and reporting. This also includes facilitating learning and capacity building through internal and external resources to support projects designed on MCHand Nutrition.
The Technical Specialist –Maternal Child Health and Nutrition will be part of ChildFund’s internal team of experts on specific age-groups that ensure overall program quality and incorporation of best practices as relevant to ChildFund Indonesia.
DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work closely with the Indonesia Office’s Life Stage 1 (0-6 years) core group.
- Carrying out an assessment of the current MCH and Nutrition portfolio. This involves mappingcurrent MCHand Nutrition interventionsto identifyareas of strengths/gaps based on the core outcomes that ChildFund proposes to achieve.
- Designing and developingthe National Office’s “Niche Core Program” (NCP) inline with the Theory of Change (ToC) with support from the International/Regional Office.
- Providing technical input to the development of ChildFund Indonesia’s ‘Advocasy and Visibility’ Plan and the ‘Communication and Public Engagement’ Strategy
- Work cooperatively and collaboratively with the Early Childhood Development Technical Specialist on the rollout of the NCP program to partners/program/sponsorship teams and local stakeholders.
- Assuring the NCP/MCH and Nutrition program is implemented as planned within the local environment.
- Documenting NCP/MCH and Nutrition experiences and best practices, to share globally within the region and nationally.
- Supportingthe M&Especialist design appropriate standards and quality checklist for MCHand Nutrition.
- Buildingthe capacity of field offices and partners to implement high quality programming in the field
- Identifyingfunding opportunitiesand providing technical support to proposal development at all levels of the organization as requested
- Representing the National Office in relevent networks, public speaking, legislative advocasy events, donor contract
- Providing timely reporting as required by RO/IO/NO and grant requirements etc
- Providing technical assistance to the field and assessesthe effectiveness of the interventions in the attainment of ChildFundIndonesia’s core outcomes.
- Serving as a liasion in providing information to regional countries within NCP
- Willingness to travel nationally and internationally as well as to remote areas
QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE
- At least 12-15 years inproviding technical assistance toprograms forparents and children aged 0 -6 on Maternal Child Health andNutrition issues.
- Experience as an Maternal Child Health and Nutrition training facilitator
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills in Englishand Bahasa Indonesia
- Strong computer skills
EDUCATION
A Medical degree or PhDin Child Development, Developmental Pyschology and/or Nutrition from a reputable university of institution.
This position is opened for Indonesian national only.
ChildFund requires electronic lodgment of applications. Please send by email your resume or CV & include Job Title & Position Code in the email subject field. Any enquiries should be directed by email to: recruitment@indonesia.childfund.org
Deadline for lodging applications: June 15, 2013
This position is opened for Indonesian national only.
ChildFund requires electronic lodgment of applications. Please send by email your resume or CV & include Job Title & Position Code in the email subject field. Any enquiries should be directed by email to: recruitment@indonesia.childfund.org
Deadline for lodging applications: June 15, 2013
