Guided by the remarkable legacy of its co-founder, Helen Keller, Helen Keller Intl partners with communities striving to overcome long-standing cycles of poverty. By delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound nutrition, and clear vision, we help millions of people create lasting change in their own lives. Working in 20 countries – across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States – and together with a global community of supporters, we are ensuring every person has the opportunity – as Helen did – to reach their true potential.

USAID Integrated Nutrition’s primary goal is to improve the nutrition status of women, adolescents, and children in Nepal’s underserved and marginalized communities. The activity will tackle the direct and underlying determinants of malnutrition in Nepal while strengthening the national and local enabling environment to implement multisectoral nutrition programs through four synergistic intermediate results. Achievement of the purpose will be measured by improvements in indicators of nutrition status among women of reproductive age, adolescents, and children.

Position: Nutrition Governance Lead

Department: Nutrition Governance

Location: Katmandu with frequent travel to project area

Level / Grade: N

The Lead- Nutrition Governance is expected to advance governance within nutrition programs, ensure policy coherence, maintain close coordination with national level stakeholders and current nutrition program and projects. This position is also responsible in crafting governance strategy, developing implementation guide, providing structured technical support to federal, provincial and local teams for capacity enhancement, including government nutrition architects and MSNP secretariate at the federal, province and local as required.

Additionally, responsibilities involve providing guidance in evidence-based planning and monitoring, documenting best practices and insights, and sharing data and lessons across different levels and maintain coordination, networking, representation, and communication at all levels. This position will coordinate with other program teams for the implementation of effective, inclusive, accountable, and sustainable local nutrition programming in their focus on nutrition governance. This position will also be responsible for ensuring the policy and planning coherence and support in annual creation at federal level and provide technical assistance to the provincial team regularly, and for support provincial team in overseeing partner non-governmental organizations (PNGOs) performance and capacity needs in governance.

This position is expected to consistently coordinate with other development partners at federal levels to maximize synergy on implementation and outcomes and is also responsible for ensuring Gender and Inclusive Development (GID) principles are appropriately integrated into the delivery of USAID Integrated Nutrition.

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