***Title: Program Specialist (Health and Nutrition)****Division/Department**:Global Operations****Location**:Jakarta, Indonesia****Reporting Relationship**:Program & Sponsorship Director**:**About Us**: Worldwide, 570 million children live in extreme poverty, vulnerable to many factors that threaten their well-being. Children need protection, support and care at each stage of childhood to stay safe, healthy, learning and on track to achieve their potential. ChildFund works with local partner organizations, governments, corporations and individuals to help create the safe environments children need to thrive.ChildFund International is committed to a workplace culture that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion in all its forms. Furthermore, ChildFund International is committed to ensuring a workplace that safeguards and protects all children, including preventing their sexual exploitation and abuse, as well as preventing the sexual exploitation and abuse of its staff, partners, and program participants- **SUMMARY**: Provide technical support and leadership for the conceptualization, development, and support of the Country Office's Strong Core Program Portfolio to accomplish ChildFund's core intent and outcomes within a theory of change and rights-based approach.The Health & Nutrition Specialist serves as the Country Office resource for the strategic conceptualization and development of child development programs focused on children aged 0 to 14 years old (Life Stage 1 and Life Stage 2 programs). Life Stage 1 program focused on making children healthy and secure by ensuring access to good and quality ECD services helping to break the cycle of poverty, gender bias, social inequality and disability discrimination leading to sustainable results that benefit children and their families. While Life Stage 2 program aimed to make children confident and educated through participation in formal and informal settings. The post holder is also responsible for strengthening the capacity of ChildFund's implementing partners to achieve the child development program priorities that includes, among others, responsive parenting, positive parenting and life skills education and financial Literacy, based on the required technical standards. These life stage programs mainstream Child Protection, Gender and Social Inclusion, and Adaptation and Risk Reduction (ARR).**DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES**:**Program*******Design**- Technical support for ChildFund team and local partners in program design and implementation that enable the implementation of program models with clear and consistent quality standards across all life stages, inclusive of child agency and participation.- Support the Country Strategic Plan (CSP) process; provide technical expertise on concept papers, program pipelines and proposal development.- Generation of life stage content for internal and external communications.**Program** **Management** **and** **Implementation**:- Build capacity of relevant staff on technical elements related to health and nutrition interventions through mentoring, training, knowledge/information exchange, experience sharing and technical expertise.- Planning and executing a pilot project as a basis for testing a new approach and strategy for program quality and impacts..- Regularly review and monitor progress of programs in accordance with established indicators, guidelines, allocated budget, and and scope as well as developing recommendation for improvement.- Support identification and selection of consultants or partnerships needed for supporting program delivery in the country office.**Grants** **Acquisition** **and** **Management** **Support**:- Support grant acquisition, including concept note and proposal development. Support the intelligence gathering, country office positioning, rapid response to competitive bids, and general project development and negotiations with donors.- Facilitate appropriate and legally sound relationships between the country office, region and organization with funding institutions based on a risk framework and in a manner that shields organization from direct or indirect liabilities.- Support editing of program reports for submission to donors and International Office in line to the standards required and/or issued by donor and/or other funding entities..**Research** **and** **Innovation**:- Ensure high quality implementation of research and evaluation activities to support program models and other interventions across life stages.- As directed, undertake special project activities to research and or innovate program models and practices to keep the program competitive.**Visibility** **and** **Representation**:- Build/deepen partnerships with external partners, government and stakeholders based on organizational strategy; promote networking, collaboration and engagement with relevant platforms and processes within the country office's Strong Core Program portfoli
