POSITION TITLE: Nutrition & Health Specialist Consultant
PROJECT OR DIVISION: iDE Innovation Lab
REPORTS TO: iDE Innovation Lab Senior Design Manager
BASED IN: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are looking for an experienced Nutrition & Health Consultant with experience in Cambodia to work with a team of designers, researchers and changemakers. Ideally, you are comfortable being a part of in-depth research to understand the root-causes and social determinants of public health (especially nutrition) issues, can work on research for innovation in health, can proactively collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams including government, and proactively manage client relationships and most importantly, bringing innovation methodologies, ideas and ways of working to the team. We welcome applications from both Cambodian and non-Cambodian candidates, although Cambodian candidates are strongly preferred.
WHO WILL YOU BE WORKING FOR?
You will be working with the in-house social innovation lab of iDE called Innovation Lab located in Asia and Africa, with a mission to practice, coach, and promote research, design and innovation processes as a co-creative, power-shifting problem-solving approach to address complex systemic challenges by understanding user needs, motivations, and behaviours and developing new interventions to power entrepreneurs.
The iDE Innovation Lab also functions as a research, strategy and innovation consultancy in the focus areas of water, sanitation and hygiene, climate change (clean energy, conservation), agriculture, and maternal health and nutrition. Over the years, we have worked with a portfolio of international development organizations such as Care International, Hellen Keller, USAID, UNICEF, World Bank Group, Plant and Food Research, Save the Children, and SNV.
iDE is a global non-profit organisation spanning offices in 14 countries, employing over 1,000 people directly, and indirectly enabling income and opportunities for our rural audience of focus through market-based approaches across different sectors. Find out more about iDE here !
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
Technical Support:
Review relevant Cambodian national nutrition policies, strategies, clinical guidelines, and programme documents related to child wasting prevention, early identification, referral, treatment, and follow-up.
Contribute to building the knowledge and practices of existing nutrition service delivery models, referral pathways, and health-system capacity in the selected implementation areas, identifying key gaps, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement.
Identify the root cause issues contributing to the existence and persistence of child wasting prevalence in target locations in Cambodia, and developing intervention packages which address these root cause issues, across the areas of wasting prevention, identification, mitigation and relapse prevention.
Identify opportunities to integrate child wasting mitigating interventions into existing maternal and child health, infant and young child feeding, growth monitoring, community outreach, and other relevant nutrition programmes.
Contribute to the methodology creation by acting as a technical expert in nutrition for the research and implementation team.
Participate in stakeholder and end-user interviews fieldwork, including interviews and observations.
Contribute to the analysis and synthesis of the results of the research, especially the contextualisation of nutrition specific findings.
Provide technical guidance on the design of evidence-informed and contextually appropriate interventions across the continuum of child wasting prevention, screening, referral, treatment, and recovery follow-up.
Collaborate with iDE's Human-Centred Design (HCD) team to translate nutrition evidence and health-system findings into actionable insights, identify barriers to service access and uptake, and co-design feasible, user-centred intervention models.
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