Nutrition and Health Coordinator

Action Against Hunger is an international non-governmental, private, apolitical, non-religious and non-profit organization created in 1979. Its goal is to combat hunger and dangerous situations that threaten men, women and children. Currently, 500 expats and more than 5,000 employees are working for Action Against Hunger in more than forty-six countries working in projects concerning four areas of focus: nutrition, health, food security and water and sanitation.

Action Against Hunger is recruiting a Nutrition and Health Coordinator

Under the supervision of the Deputy Country Director, the Health & Nutrition Coordinator will provide strategic direction and technical oversight for AAH’s Health & Nutrition programming across Gaza and the West Bank. The Coordinator will contribute to mission strategy, needs assessments and programme development, ensuring that interventions meet relevant technical standards and respond to evolving needs. As the Programme Manager’s and Technical Specialists' technical manager, the Coordinator will provide technical guidance, support programme quality and strengthen staff and partner capacities. The Coordinator will promote integration with MHPSS, WASH and other sectors ensuring an integrated response and represent AAH with donors, authorities, Clusters and relevant Working Groups, and assume technical leadership or co-leadership roles within these groups where appropriate.

Key activities in your role will include

Objective 1 - Ensure technical oversight and quality of Health & Nutrition programmes

• Provide strategic leadership and technical oversight of H&N programmes across Gaza and the West Bank, driving continuous improvements in programme quality and ensuring alignment with AAH technical policies, international standards and national protocols.
• Provide technical management and guidance to the Programme Manager and support programme teams and partners in the implementation, monitoring and adaptation of H&N interventions.
• Develop, adapt and promote the use of technical protocols, methodological tools and good practices to ensure programme quality.
• Conduct regular technical reviews, identify quality gaps and recommend corrective actions in collaboration with the Programme Manager and partners.
• Support multisectoral integration during programme implementation, including coordination and referral pathways between H&N, WASH, Food Security and Livelihoods, MHPSS and protection services, ensuring that gender, protection and conflict sensitivity are mainstreamed throughout interventions.
• Identify staff and partner capacity-building needs and support tailored learning opportunities, including technical training and coaching.
• Contribute to H&N staff recruitment through evaluation of technical tests and participation in interviews.
• Facilitate effective technical information sharing and learning between programme teams, partners and other mission departments.

Objective 2: Guide evidence-based Health & Nutrition programming and programme development

• Update and revise the mission’s H&N strategy and contribute technical inputs to the country strategy, informed by evolving needs, programme evidence and operational priorities.
• Lead H&N needs assessments and surveys, including SMART surveys, in collaboration with MEAL teams, partners and relevant coordination mechanisms.
• Coordinate the development of assessment and analytical products, including methodologies, data collection tools, analysis and reporting, ensuring technical quality.
• Use assessment findings and programme data to identify gaps, prioritise geographical areas and target groups, and inform programme design and adaptation.
• Identify funding opportunities with the Deputy Country Director and grants team, and lead technical contributions to H&N proposals and concept notes, including intervention design, indicators and budget requirements.
• Contribute to the design of integrated multisectoral interventions, addressing overlapping needs through complementary H&N, WASH, Food Security and Livelihoods, MHPSS and protection activities.
• Provide technical inputs to donor reports and document programme learning and good practices to inform future programming.

Objective 3: Lead Health & Nutrition coordination, external representation and technical advocacy

• Represent AAH in Health and Nutrition Clusters and relevant technical working groups, contributing to coordinated priorities, technical guidance and response planning.
• Fulfil AAH’s co-chairing role in the Nutrition Information Systems Technical Working Group, supporting joint planning, harmonised methodologies, data quality and the use of nutrition information to inform the response.
• Develop and maintain technical relationships with national authorities, UN agencies, donors, local and international partners, promoting collaboration and complementarity.
• Represent AAH’s H&N programming in technical discussions with donors and other stakeholders.
• Promote evidence-based technical solutions and contribute to joint efforts to address H&N service gaps and access barriers.
• Contribute evidence and technical inputs to advocacy and communication products where relevant, in collaboration with the Advocacy Coordinator.
• Ensure relevant technical developments, coordination priorities and contextual updates inform mission decisions and are shared with programme teams and partners.
• Liaise with AAH’s HQ Health & Nutrition technical teams to facilitate technical support, exchange and alignment with organisational guidance.