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The post holder's main tasks and responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Ensure and maintain a coordination mechanism that facilitates the effective achievement of the nutrition humanitarian response as outlined in the response plan and project document,
• Coordinate with subnational stakeholders including district local governments, ensuring alignment of work and priorities, effective communication and reporting
• Build complementarity of partner actions within the zone, pro-actively negotiating with partners to avoid and resolve duplication and gaps.

• Contribute to the planning and implementation of needs assessment and analysis, including contributing to joint analysis of the response needs, in particular with WFP, UNHCR and other implementing partners.
• Analyse needs assessment data and work collaboratively with the district local governments and implementing partners to create analytical reports and other response products.

• Contribute to subnational level strategic planning, response prioritization and the development of the nutrition response plan that is aligned with national priorities, policies and plans,
• Ensure all programme delivery modalities (in-kind, cash, voucher and services) are given consideration in the strategic response planning and implement systematic measures for supporting their consideration and use,
• Provide technical support to sub-national local government and partners to ensure activities are aligned with national priorities and communities' needs,
• Ensure that local government response planning is regularly updated according to evolving needs and that it establishes indicators by which performance of the response can be measured,

• Monitor, evaluate and report on the coverage, equity, quality and progress of the response against the response strategy, priorities and agreed results,
• Contribute to gap and coverage analysis to identify spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps and coverage of humanitarian response,
• Monitor the adherence to the project principles, relevant agreements, standards, initiatives and guidelines, in particular as it relates to community engagement, detection and referral of severe wasting cases for treatment.

• Encourage participation of local actors in activities and strategic decision-making, removing barriers to access,
• Lead timely planning of response actions, including mass screening, outreaches and emergency preparedness efforts for timely treatment of severe wasting cases among children under five years old.
• Ensure all response delivery modalities (lifesaving supplies, cash payments and/or services) are given equal consideration in the strategic response planning and establish and implement systematic measures for supporting their consideration and use,
• Provide technical support to partners to ensure activities are aligned with the response strategic priorities and communities' needs,
• Ensure that response implementation progress is regularly updated according to evolving needs and established indicators by which performance of the response be measured are timely tracked,