Nutrition Technical Advisor

About IsraAID

IsraAID is an international non-governmental humanitarian aid organization with its HQ based in Israel. Since we were founded in 2001, our teams have worked in emergency and long-term development settings in more than 60 countries around the world. IsraAID responds to emergencies and helps communities affected by crises rebuild their lives, and their futures, together. From hurricanes to refugee crises to global pandemics, we mobilize quickly and collaborate with communities at the deepest level, accompanying the process of becoming self-reliant in the ability to prepare and respond to emergencies and crises and return to adaptive functioning.

In Africa, IsraAID implements multisectoral health and resilience programs, with a strong focus on integrated interventions across Health, WASH, Protection, Education, and incorporates Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Triple I (Innovation, Information, and Impact). Health programming prioritizes nutrition, sexual and reproductive health (SRH), and communicable disease prevention and response, delivered through community-based, multi-sector integration and systems-strengthening approaches.

About the Position

The Nutrition Technical Advisor provides technical leadership, capacity strengthening, and strategic guidance for nutrition programing, within the Integrated Community Nutrition Management Program and across IsraAID’s Africa Region to ensure high-quality, evidence-based, and multisectoral integrated interventions. The role operates within a matrix structure, supports community-based, context-specific, and decentralized nutrition programmatic approaches across multiple countries in the Africa Region. It works closely with IsraAid COs health teams, the Regional Desk, the Program Manager, Health Sector, and the Technical Unit Director in the design, planning, implementation, monitoring, and quality assurance of nutrition interventions, with a particular focus on community-based management of malnutrition programs (CMAM/IMAM/MIYCN/ Blanket feeding program, Deworming and Vit. Supplementation. The position plays a key role in leading, supporting, and scaling up community-based malnutrition management program across IsraAID Africa Region Country Offices, with a particular focus on the implementation and expansion of nutrition initiatives delivered in partnership with Edesia. The role will contribute to advancing IsraAID’s programmatic approach, Global Health Strategy, and Resilience Framework while strengthening the quality, coverage, and impact of acute malnutrition prevention and treatment services. Nutrition Technical Advisor is one of four core cross-country roles supporting the Integrated Community Nutrition Management Program. The role operates in close coordination with the Program Manager, SCM Coordinator, and MEAL Coordinator, contributing to a coordinated program structure that connects technical guidance, operational systems, and implementation across countries.

Scope & Context: Revolution:

The Technical Advisor role is a regional technical advisory position within a complex multi-country nutrition program. It focuses on providing technical leadership, guidance, and capacity strengthening while remaining closely connected to program implementation realities. The role does not directly manage Country Office teams but supports them through technical guidance, coordination, and structured follow-up within a matrix system. Success in this role will be reflected in consistent technical quality, practical implementation support, strong cross-country alignment, and effective integration between technical standards and program delivery.

Duties and Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Strategy

Provide strategic and technical leadership for nutrition programming across IsraAID country offices in the Africa Region.

Lead the development and implementation of regional nutrition priorities, approaches, and technical frameworks in alignment with IsraAid’s Global Health Strategy and Resilient Framework.

Ensure nutrition programming is aligned with national policies, technical guidelines, and global standards.

Guide the design, planning, and implementation of community-based nutrition interventions, including the screening, prevention, community management of malnutrition, referral pathways, in collaboration with country offices and partners.

Ensure the integration of health and nutrition programming with WASH, Protection, Education and cross cutting Triple i, and DRR.

Provide strategic technical oversight and support the translation of technical guidance into practical implementation approaches across program sites.

Support the identification of emerging nutrition priorities, risks, and opportunities, and advise COs, the Regional Desk, Program team, and TU on appropriate programmatic responses.

Capacity Strengthening & Field Support

Lead the development and implementation of coordinated capacity-strengthening approaches across program countries, ensuring alignment with program models, tools, and implementation priorities.

Design, adapt, and facilitate training, mentoring, and on-the-job coaching on nutrition programming, including nutrition screenings, assessments, community-based management of malnutrition (CMAM/IMAM/ MIYCN/, Blanket feeding, Deworming and Vit. Supplementation programs).

Conduct regular supportive supervision and field visits to provide hands-on technical support, monitor implementation quality, identify challenges, and support corrective actions.

Strengthen the competencies of national staff and partners in nutrition program implementation, quality assurance, data use, adaptive programming, and adherence to national and global nutrition standards.

Support country offices in translating technical guidance into practical implementation approaches tailored to the local context.

Foster continuous learning and knowledge sharing across country offices by documenting lessons learned, best practices, and innovations in nutrition programming.

Support commemoration and capacity-building initiatives for Global Health Days organized by the Health and Technical Unit sectors, involving Health Rosters and Global Health teams.

Program Quality & Implementation

Provide technical leadership and oversight to ensure high-quality implementation of community-based and facility-based nutrition interventions across country program, in line with national policies, WHO guidance, and international standards.

Support the strengthening of community-based and community-led nutrition systems, including Family MUAC approaches, peer support groups, community health worker capacity building, decentralized service delivery models, and other approaches that enhance early identification, referral, treatment, and follow-up of vulnerable populations.

Support the development, adaptation, implementation, and dissemination of technical guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs), tools, checklists, training materials, job aids, and awareness materials to strengthen program quality and consistency.

Strengthen quality assurance and quality improvement mechanisms, and support the harmonization of technical approaches, indicators, tools, and implementation models across country programs while allowing for context-specific adaptation.

Support country offices in strengthening referral pathways between communities, health facilities, and other relevant services to ensure continuity of care and timely management of nutrition cases.

Support the integration of nutrition programming into national and sub-national systems and contribute to transition and sustainability planning through capacity strengthening, institutional embedding, and gradual handover of program components where appropriate.

Work closely with the Supply Chain Coordinator to ensure that nutrition commodity management, including RUTF/RUSF protocols, forecasting, pipeline planning, and technical