Job title:Emergency Nutrition Coordinator - External Roster

Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Sector: Nutrition

Location: Zimbabwe

Other locations: Global

Employee Type: Regular

Employee Category: Not Applicable

Description

Background/IRC Summary:

The IRCs Emergency Unit (EU) leads or oversees IRCs global emergency preparedness and response activities. The mission of the EU is to help meet the immediate survival needs and reduce suffering in conflict or disaster affected populations during the acute phase of an emergency. The EU also works in protracted emergencies, where the risk to life may be reduced but the population is still subjected to rights abuses and a lack of basic services.

The IRCs fulltime Emergency Response Team (ERT) is a standing team of specialized professionals ready to deploy to an emergency within 72 hours. The ERT is supplemented by personnel drawn from the IRCs Emergency Internal and External Rosters.

Nutrition programming at IRC: The IRC nutrition team’s objective is to support country programs to increase access and coverage to effective and responsive nutrition interventions so women and children are protected from and treated for malnutrition. The nutrition team’s core programming include the community based management of acute malnutrition and infant and young child feeding programs. The IRC nutrition team is leading efforts in developing transformative strategies for treating malnourished children by putting treatment within reach of people who need it through the integration of malnutrition treatment into community case management and unifying treatment for moderate and severe malnutrition by testing a combined treatment protocol. Further details visit:http://www.bestjobszimbabwe.com/2017/06/emergency-nutrition-coordinator-jobs-in.html