The Health and Nutrition Coordinator provides overall strategic leadership and technical orientation for ACF’s Health and Nutrition portfolio in Sudan, across humanitarian and recovery contexts.
Responsible for guiding the mission’s health and nutrition strategy, ensuring coherence, quality, and alignment across programmes and geographic areas. The Coordinator provides strategic oversight and technical guidance to support integrated PHC and CMAM programming, functional referral pathways, and strong community-based prevention and early detection approaches, including routine screening, Family MUAC, IYCF-E, and health promotion.
Lead the strategic scale-up and quality assurance of CMAM services at facility and community levels, ensuring alignment with national protocols and international recommendations.
Leads the development and adaptation of technical guidance, tools, and strategic documents, and supports programme design and proposal development for both emergency and recovery interventions.
The Coordinator plays a key coordination and representation role with Health and Nutrition Clusters, government counterparts (including SMoH), donors, and peer INGOs, promoting harmonisation, learning, and strategic partnerships. As part of the mission’s senior technical leadership, the Health and Nutrition Coordinator contributes to a shared strategic vision, supports evidence-based decision-making through data analysis and learning, and ensures ACF’s health and nutrition response remains relevant, high-quality, and impactful across evolving contexts.
Objective 1: Programme Design and Strategic Planning
- Lead Health and Nutrition programme design and proposal development, contributing to multi-sector project formulation, budgeting, and donor engagement across humanitarian and recovery contexts.
- Ensure cross-cutting priorities (gender, MHPSS, social protection, climate, WASH, protection, and disease surveillance) are systematically integrated into programme design and operational planning, in coordination with other technical departments.
- Support assessments, surveys, and needs analyses (e.g., SMART, SQUEAC, IYCF, KPC) to inform programme targeting, modality selection, and design decisions, ensuring evidence-based and context-appropriate programming.
- Ensure programme design is aligned with national protocols, cluster guidance, and international standards, incorporating lessons learned, multi-sector linkages, and pathways for humanitarian, recovery, and sustainability objectives.
- Define operational triggers and adaptive delivery mechanisms for conflict- and displacement-affected, access-constrained settings, ensuring continuity of essential PHC and CMAM services.
Objective 2: Technical Support and Programme Quality
- Provide ongoing technical guidance and oversight to Health and Nutrition teams to ensure high-quality programme delivery across PHC, CMAM, referral systems, and community-based interventions.
- Lead structured quality assurance systems, including supportive supervision, mentoring, coaching, checklists, and corrective action plans, safeguarding technical standards, patient safety, and accountability to affected populations (AAP).
- Strengthen the technical capacity of teams through structured training, mentoring, on-the-job coaching, and performance management, including support to recruitment, onboarding, and review of job descriptions.
- Ensure continuity of essential medical and nutrition commodities through oversight of forecasting, pre-positioning, stock monitoring, and coordination with Supply, Logistics, and Pharmacy teams.
- Support internal processes, including programme monitoring, risk management, evidence-based decision-making, and adaptive programme adjustments.
- Promote systematic learning and knowledge management by documenting good practices, lessons learned, success stories, and technical innovations for internal and external dissemination.
Objective 3: Strategy and Technical Direction
- Support the Deputy/Country Director and Coordination Team in country-level analysis, scenario planning, and strategic decision-making for Health and Nutrition.
- Develop, update, and operationalise the mission Health and Nutrition strategy and Theory of Change, ensuring coherence across programmes and alignment with humanitarian, recovery, and sustainability objectives.
- Maintain and regularly update strategic Health and Nutrition mapping (needs and severity trends, service availability, key actors, priority gaps) to guide geographic targeting, partnerships, and resource allocation.
- Lead routine triangulation of internal programme data with external analyses (HNO, IPC, SMART, multi-sector assessments) to inform prioritisation, modality selection, and strategic adaptation.
- Ensure consistent application of ACF technical policies, position papers, and guidance, promoting standardisation and technical excellence across the department.
Objective 4: Coordination and Representation
- Actively represent ACF in Health and Nutrition coordination fora at national and sub-national levels, including Clusters, Technical Working Groups, and sector platforms, contributing to collective strategy, harmonisation, and technical advocacy.
- Act as ACF’s Health and Nutrition technical focal point with external stakeholders (MoH/SMoH, UN agencies, NGOs, donors), ensuring alignment with national protocols, cluster guidance, and coherent technical positioning.
- Contribute to sector-wide strategy, joint analysis, and technical advocacy by sharing synthesised programme insights (performance trends, alerts, lessons learned, assessment findings) to support collective response adjustment, programme quality, and accountability.
- Lead and/or actively participate in key technical platforms and analysis processes (e.g., Nutrition Information and Assessment TWGs, IPC AMN), ensuring ACF visibility, influence, and evidence-based positioning.
- Foster structured technical collaboration with national authorities and humanitarian and development partners to harmonise approaches (protocols, referral systems, quality standards), strengthen access and service quality, and promote complementarity across programmes and geographic areas.
- Medical Doctor, Nutritionist, Nurse, or Public Health specialist with extensive experience in health and nutrition programming, including management of acute malnutrition and integrated primary health care services (including reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health), across humanitarian emergencies and recovery contexts.
- Technical specific knowledge:
- Strong technical expertise in CMAM and integrated Primary Health Care programming in humanitarian and recovery contexts, including MCH/IMNCI and SRH, delivered through static, outreach, and mobile modalities.
- Demonstrated ability to provide strategic guidance to strengthen community-based prevention and early detection approaches (including IYCF-E, micronutrient deficiency prevention, Family MUAC, mother-to-mother support groups, and health promotion), and to support the establishment and maintenance of functional referral pathways.
- Proven experience in disease surveillance, outbreak preparedness and response, and oversight of supply chain and pharmacy systems to ensure continuity of essential medical and nutrition commodities.
- Previous experience (years): 4 years of previous related experience in nutrition and health.
- Proven experience in conflict/displacement contexts with fluctuating access, and demonstrated capacity strengthening/coaching of field teams.
- Previous experience in Sudan will be an asset.
- Languages: English fluency, French and Spanish appreciated, Arabic is a plus
- Valuable prior experience in issues related to the promotion of gender equality or personal commitment to gender equality.
- Excellent command of MS. Office
We offer immediate incorporation to a dynamic international network with the following remuneration package:
- Formal work contract: 12 months .
- Base: (Port Sudan)
- Salary: according to Action Against Hunger salary scale and to candidate’s previous experience.
This packaged includes:
- Expatriate insurance (health, live, repatriation, travel, etc.)
- Break flights/trips to defined area: (break per diem: 215 EUR)
- Yearly holiday return flight ticket
- Accommodation and housing expenses (in shared guest house)
- Travel costs to and from the mission.
- 26 to 28 working days of paid leave per year
- Emotional care service at the service of the employee and family.
- 10 weeks R&R Cycle
Notes:
- Candidates may be contacted for other suitable positions within Action Against Hunger.
- Due to the high-number of application received, only potential applicants will be contacted.
- Applications will be assessed and vacancy might be closed before the end of the announcement as per qualifications availability.
The organization is committed to the principles of non-discrimination and diversity and is particularly interested in receiving applications from a broad spectrum of qualified people.
In the process of recruitment, selection and appointment Action Against Hunger implement a range of procedures and actions including Criminal Background Checks/ International vetting/Certificate of good conduct to ensure children and vulnerable adults are safeguarded and abuse is prevented