The Nutrition & Health Program Manager is responsible for designing, overseeing, and coordinating the nutrition, health, and care practices programs, as well as liaising with various external partners.

• Monitor the evolution of the context and nutrition & health humanitarian needs, operational context, local and international response capacity, and priorities, for analysis and identification of potential priority interventions, target geographical areas, target population groups and actions.
• Identify and design nutrition and health programs, interventions, and activities.
• Ensure the nutrition and health programmatic approach is in line with humanitarian and technical standards, and Action Against Hunger nutrition-security approach, technical policies, position papers, guidelines, and protocols.
• Provide technical assistance and orientation to the technical and operations staff from Action Against Hunger and partners.
• Ensure that the commitments to donors, including reporting, implementation deadlines, monitoring, and other requests, are respected in the implementation of the activities in the field.
• Ensure that all the administrative and logistic processes related to the projects are performed on time allowing the proper implementation of the project.
• Ensure the quality and timely implementation of the planned activities.
• Perform a follow up of the budget allocated to the projects under her/his responsibilities.
• Follow and support field activities through visits, phone calls and emails.
• Capitalize the experiences and develop good practices and success stories.
• Train, manage and conduct regular performance evaluation of the personnel under her/his responsibility.
• When necessary, participate in the recruitment of nutrition and health staff, including the review of job descriptions and technical tests, as well as the performance of interviews.
• Ensure cross-cutting issues (gender, MHPSS, social protection) are mainstreamed in health actions in coordination and consultation with other technical departments.
• Promote inter-sectoral coordination with WASH and FSL programming and strategies for the implementation of the projects under her/his responsibility.
• Any other task required to achieve the project objective or fall within the mandate of Action Against Hunger.
• Participate in coordination meetings with external stakeholders and health and nutrition sector working groups.
• Represent Action Against Hunger for internal and external coordination at the capital level for issues related to health and nutrition.
• Act as focal point on nutrition and health related issues.
• Liaise with the health and nutrition technical staff in HQ.
• Support the Country Director in country analysis and strategy definition.

Essential:

• A first level university degree in project management, public health, health science, management, project evaluation and design, or another field relevant to the position.
• At least 3 years of experience in humanitarian settings.
• Fluent in English, Romanian and Russian, both written and verbal.
• Based in Chisinau with frequent travels to different districts within Moldova.
• Experience in Health, Primary health care, Care practices, Mental Health or Psychosocial Support projects related in humanitarian contexts. 

Desirable: 

• Advanced university degree (Masters level or above) in project management, public health (MPH, DrPH), health science, management, or business administration (MBA).
• Project Management Certification (Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Project Manager (CPM), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), PRINCE2, Professional in Project Management (PPM), or similar).
• Experience with Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies and nurturing care.

We offer immediate incorporation to a dynamic international network with the following remuneration package:

• Formal work contract: Long Term
• Base: Chisinau (Moldova)
• Salary: according to Action Against Hunger salary scale and to candidate’s previous experience.