Action Against Hunger leads the global movement to end hunger. We innovate solutions, advocate for change, and reach 28 million people every year with proven hunger prevention and treatment programs. As a nonprofit that works across 55 countries, our 8,990 dedicated staff members partner with communities to address the root causes of hunger, including climate change, conflict, inequity, and emergencies. We strive to create a world free from hunger, for everyone, for good.
Action Against Hunger USA is part of the Action Against Hunger International network. Action Against Hunger USA currently manages operations in 8 countries: Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia and Haiti.
- Job Summary
Action Against Hunger is seeking a qualified Health, Nutrition, and WASH Lead for the upcoming USAID-funded BHA Uganda Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA). This role is critical in ensuring the successful implementation of integrated health, nutrition, and WASH strategies to improve and sustain the food and nutrition security of vulnerable populations in Uganda through multi-year resilience activities.
Purpose:
The Health, Nutrition, and WASH Lead will provide technical leadership in designing and implementing nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive strategies, ensuring their integration across all program interventions. This role will also focus on enhancing health outcomes through improved access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services.
Engagement:
The Health, Nutrition, and WASH Lead will work closely with the Chief of Party, technical teams, USAID, local government bodies, and community stakeholders to ensure that health, nutrition, and WASH activities align with global best practices and donor requirements. This role requires strong collaboration with various partners to build capacity and ensure sustainability.
Delivery:
This role will oversee the planning, implementation, and monitoring of health, nutrition, and WASH activities within the RFSA framework. The Health, Nutrition, and WASH Lead will also be responsible for ensuring the collection and analysis of data to track progress against targets, identify successful practices, and guide adaptive management strategies.
- Essential Job Duties
- Technical Leadership: Provide expert guidance on the integration of health, nutrition, and WASH strategies into all program activities, ensuring that interventions are evidence-based and lead to measurable improvements in health and nutrition outcomes.
- Program Design and Implementation: Develop and implement strategies that integrate nutrition-sensitive approaches into agriculture and livelihood interventions, focusing on school nutrition, maternal and child health, and WASH services.
- Capacity Building: Offer technical assistance and training to government and community stakeholders to strengthen local capacity in health, nutrition, and WASH, while also designing and implementing strategies to influence positive behavior changes in these practices within communities.
- Monitoring and Evaluation: Oversee the collection, analysis, and reporting of health, nutrition, and WASH data to assess program impact and inform decision-making processes.
- Collaboration and Coordination: Work closely with program teams and external stakeholders to ensure coherence and synergy across all health, nutrition, and WASH activities.
- Knowledge Management: Identify and document best practices, lessons learned, and success stories to contribute to program learning and improvement.
- Compliance and Quality Assurance: Ensure that all health, nutrition, and WASH interventions meet USAID standards and global best practices.
- Cross-Sector Integration with Protection Mainstreaming: Collaborate with project teams to ensure the integration of social protection strategies and the Graduation Approach across all program activities. Employ basic knowledge of protection mainstreaming to enhance alignment with national frameworks and boost the resilience and food security of target communities.
III. Supervisory Responsibilities
Provide leadership and supervision to the health, nutrition, and WASH teams, ensuring the effective implementation of activities and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
IV. Fiscal Responsibility
Oversee the budget allocated for health, nutrition, and WASH activities, ensuring financial integrity and adherence to donor requirements.
V. Physical Demands
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit for long periods and to concentrate on work, including typing, and turn out heavy volumes of work accurately, within short time frames under stressful situations in the context of a moderately noisy office with interruptions.
- To travel to the field, the employee must attest to a level of physical fitness capable of enduring physically difficult, highly stressful situations which may include the necessity to walk long distances, to eat a limited diet and/or to reside in potentially uncomfortable housing or tents.
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
VI. Working Conditions, Travel and Environment
- The duties of the job require regular job attendance at least five days per week. Must be available to work outside normal office hours or on the weekends as required by project needs.
- Must be able to travel as required for standard domestic and international business purposes as well as to project locations across Uganda. While visiting the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high security risks and/or very basic living conditions and outside weather conditions, as well as to infectious diseases.
VII. Gender Equality Commitments & Zero Tolerance to Abuse
- Foster an environment that reinforces values of people of all genders equal access to information.
- Provide a work environment where people of all genders must be evaluated and promoted based on their skills and performance.
- Promote a safe, secure, and respectful environment for all stakeholders, particularly for children, beneficiaries, and members of staff.
- Help to prevent any type of abuse including workplace harassment and sexual abuse and exploitation.
- Respect beneficiaries’ women, men, children (boys and girls) regardless of gender, sex orientation, disability, religion, race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, or marital status.
- Value and respect all cultures.
Requirements
VIII. Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in health, nutrition or WASH.
- Master’s degree in public health.
- A minimum of seven years of experience in planning and implementing health, nutrition, and WASH programs, with a focus on integrating these components into broader food security and resilience activities.
- Proven experience in providing technical expertise to host government institutions and community stakeholders in the areas of health, nutrition, and WASH.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to produce clear and concise reports.
- Experience working in Uganda or similar low-resource settings is preferred.
- Fluency in English is required; proficiency in other languages spoken in Uganda is an advantage.
IX. Required Skills & Experience
- Strong facilitation skills and the ability to manage diverse teams.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with proficiency in English and French.
- Experience in developing and managing complex databases and knowledge management systems.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, stressful environment.
- Experience working in an emergency context.
- Must be detail-oriented and able to work independently and collaboratively.
