Job Title: Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Nutrition Specialist
Organization: Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim - Canada
Report To: Associate Director, Nutrition
Location: Nairobi, Kenya (1 position) and Dakar, Senegal (1 position)
Job Type: Full-time, 1-year contract with a possibility of extension
Start Date: October 2022
Work Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: CAD 75K 80K per annum
ABOUT US
Created in 1979, Action Against Hunger is a non-governmental organization that aims to provide solutions to hunger. Our mission is to save lives by eliminating hunger through the prevention, detection, and treatment of under-nutrition, particularly during and after emergency situations linked to conflicts or natural disasters. Action Against Hunger focuses on nutrition, health, and healthcare practices; food security and livelihoods; water, sanitation and hygiene and advocacy.
Action Against Hunger is one of the 15 organizations (including other international NGOs, United Nations agencies and Regional Inter-governmental bodies) that form the global partnership of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). The IPC is a multi-partner initiative to facilitate decision-making for improved food security and nutrition analysis. The IPC uses a set of tools and protocols for classifying the severity and nature of food insecurity and malnutrition linked to implications for response. IPC incorporates a meta-analysis approach drawing on evidence-based analysis that includes a broad range of data sets and stakeholders. It is currently implemented in 30 countries around the world and keeps expanding in response to growing food insecurity and increased levels of malnutrition globally. The operational arm of the IPC Partnership is the IPC Global Support Unit (GSU). In the Sahel and West Africa region, IPC GSU collaborates with the Cadre Harmonisé (CH) partnership, which uses similar tools and procedures to classify acute food insecurity.
In response to the increasing demand for full integration of nutrition analysis within IPC food security analysis, the IPC Acute Malnutrition (IPC AMN) scale was first rolled-out in 2016. Since then, the use of the IPC AMN scale has expanded reaching 19 countries to date, including six countries in the Sahel and West Africa region under the coordination of the Nutrition Task Force of the CH Technical Committee. The IPC AMN has been recommended by the Global Nutrition Cluster as the primary tool for nutrition situation analysis in all countries where acute malnutrition is of concern.
As the demand for IPC AMN findings is growing, there is a need to step up human capacity to support high quality IPC AMN analyses and ensure synergies with nutrition information systems and the humanitarian program cycle, in order to better inform decision-making. Within this context, Action Against Hunger has identified IPC AMN as an area to provide in-depth support.
ABOUT THE ROLE
IPC Nutrition Specialist will help strengthen the coordination and technical support for Integrated Food Security Phase Classification AMN analysis and related activities by closely working with the IPC Global Support Unit.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the direct supervision of Associate Director, Nutrition at Action Against Hunger Canada and indirect supervision of the IPC Regional Coordinator at the IPC Global Support Unit (GSU), the responsibilities of the IPC Nutrition Specialist will be:
Technical Support for Capacity Development and Delivery of IPC AMN Analyses