A Positive Deviance Project Manager ~ ACF

ACTION CONTRE LA FAIM
4, rue Niepce
75662 Paris cedex 14
Tel: 01 43 35 88 88
Fax: 01 43 35 88 05
http://www.actionco ntrelafaim. org/

Action contre la Faim is a non-governmental organisation. It intervenes in 40 countries and implements nutrition and health, food security, water and sanitation, and advocacy programmes. On the international level, Action contre la Faim is also present in Paris, London, Madrid, New York and Montreal.
We are looking for:
POsition: A POSITIVE DEVIANCE PROJECT MANAGER (M/F)
Country: INDONESIA- Soe

General objective: To contribute to improve the nutritional status of isolated, vulnerable communities in NTT province, Indonesia

Responsibilities:
- Prepare tools needed for the positive deviance inquiry
- Recruit (if needed) and train the national team (and local partner staff)
- Conduct survey and assessment before the start of the program and to write a survey report with recommendations for the implementation of the activities
- Define activities to be carried out in coordination with the national team and the Program Coordinator
- To coordinate with the community leaders, the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders
- To manage the selection of the Mother of Light and the daily menu recipes and care practices activities
- To be the source of community information with the support of national team
- Implement the first phase of the program and ensure proper monitoring of the activities
- Assist the nutrition team in administrative and logistics follow-up necessary for the implementation of the program. Note that the expat will not handle directly any national staff but to work only in collaboration with them
- Conduct periodic meeting among the nutrition team members to ensure coherence of various activities in the department
- Represent Action contre la Faim in the meetings related to Care practices, including Infant and Child Feeding together with the Nutritionist Program Manager
- Participate in the Base meeting

Qualifications and previous experiences:
- Proven experience in nutrition, care practices, positive deviance
- Educational background in Nutrition and Health or child development and care practices
- Good capacity in representing Action contre la Faim towards local partners
- Humanitarian experiences are required
- English mandatory

Competences:
Initiative and problem solving skills:
- Working with all the different partners requires being good at public relations, as well as mind-openness and diplomacy
- Ability to capitalise experience and available information in order to become quickly autonomous
- Ability to take initiative where appropriate to deal with difficulties encountered in daily work.

Adaptability and flexibility:
- Ability to adapt or change priorities according to the changing situation within a mission or the organisation itself
- Ability to work within a fluid situation (changes within the team, location of programmes)
- Willingness to live and work within a team and respect the rules of collective living

Motivation and involvement:
- Motivation and commitment to humanitarian ideals
- Interest in involvement beyond the job assigned i.e. active involvement in the ethos of the organisation itself
- Ability to integrate the local environment including awareness of political and economic aspects of the country
- Energy and stamina to withstand long working hours and often stressful conditions

Professionalism and Management:
- Ability to conduct work in a professional and mature manner
- Ability to deal with relations with local authorities as a representative of Action Contre la Faim- - Ability to manage local staff in a mature and impartial manner

Status: Volunteer
Length of the contract: 4 months
Personalised training provided before leaving on mission.
All expenses paid in the field: travel out/return, collective accommodation.
We pay the costs of medical insurance, complementary health, and repatriation insurance Monthly indemnity: 838.47 Euros paid on a personal account

Application Process:CV and Motivation letter to be sent to:Recruitment officer 4, rue Niepce75662 Paris cedex 14or: recrutementvolontai res@actioncontre lafaim.org