Country: Bangladesh
Closing date: 24 Apr 2016
POSITION DESCRIPTION
POSITION TITLE: Nutrition Team Leader
LOCATION: Bangladesh
DEPARTMENT: Agriculture & Enterprise
REPORTS TO: Senior Director, Agriculture & Enterprise
POSITION SUMMARY:
Winrock International is currently recruiting Nutrition Team Leader candidates for the anticipated Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture and Nutrition Activity. This will be a multi-year, $24.5 million project contributing to improved rural household income and nutrition by increasing aquaculture productivity, strengthening the aquaculture value chain and improving the awareness and adoption of nutrition-related behaviors of rural households. The project will take a market-focused, private sector-led approach that will ensure the sustainability of the activity beyond the cessation of donor funding. This approach involves developing the capacity of private sector actors such as hatchery owners, nursery owners, fish fingerling hawkers, and feed dealers so that they are able to continue to develop the capacity of farmers following the end of the project. The Nutrition Team Leader position will be based in Bangladesh and is subject to a project award being made to Winrock International.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Nutrition Team Leader will engage the private sector in promoting activities that will increase the awareness of nutrition and hygiene practices among rural households with regard to the consumption of diverse nutrient-rich foods, particularly fish products, legumes and vegetables. He/she will develop incentive mechanisms to push private sector actors to provide nutrition and hygiene information to rural households.
QUALIFICATIONS AND BACKGROUND:
Education:
- Advanced degree in nutrition, public health, or communications.
Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years of progressively senior experience working with the private sector or donor-funded programs on nutrition activities;
- Demonstrated experience implementing behavioral change communications campaigns related to improved health and nutrition practices;
- Experience within or specific to Bangladesh required;
- Expert-level knowledge of aquaculture/fisheries systems in Bangladesh
- Proven record of achieving development impact in projects focusing on food safety and export quality standards in commercial agribusiness, service provision, market development and investment promotion.
Skills & Knowledge:
- Demonstrated experience and leadership in the formation of market linkages, supply of technical assistance and inputs to smallholder producers, creating producer–market linkages, public-private partnerships and corresponding business/investment plans
- Excellent leadership and communication skills
How to apply: