Under the USAID Integrated Nutrition, the Technical Specialist in Capacity Strengthening and Pre-service Curriculum will focus on emphasizing nutrition contents in the preservice curriculum of health cadres. She/he should work efficiently with academies, universities, commissions, Curriculum Development Center (CDC), councils, CTEVT, private colleges to unfold the nutrition chapter/content of the curriculum and in the pedagogy referring to GoN approved recent guidelines and protocols. The role involves designing and implementing curriculum review workshops, and technical assistance initiatives tailored to specific needs, assessing capacity gaps, developing strategies to address them, and providing guidance on building sustainable capacities to achieve long-term goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead implementation and oversight of capacity strengthening and pre-service curriculum including rapid assessment, collaboration with concern stakeholders, revision, implementation, evaluation and update of pre-service curriculum.
• Coordinate and collaborate with decision makers, higher officials, instructors of the identified academic institutions/councils for revision/update on pre-service curriculum and developing teaching/learning guidebook by emphasizing nutrition, maternal and child health nutrition/family planning (MCHN/FP) components.
• Organize periodic meetings, curriculum review workshops, manage consultants to facilitate the curriculum review and revision/update process.
• Organize training on revised/updated content to the lecturers, instructors, USAID Integrated Nutrition staff, partner non-government organizations (PNGOs), private sectors, nutrition, MCHN/FP service providers using teaching guidebook.
• Ensure appropriate technical assistance required to PNGOs for planning, implementation, and monitoring of project activities as well as adapting new and innovative approaches and activities.
• Develop and update capacity assessment tools, conduct organizational assessments of PNGOs, review capacity strengthening and localization documents, and provide regular technical updates on best practices for long-term sustainability to USAID Integrated Nutrition staff and stakeholders.
• Provide technical assistance to develop or revise/update capacity strengthening strategy/plan of PNGOs and ensure its implementation.
• Establish strong relationships and develop ongoing coordination mechanisms with independent academic and training institutions, professionals/individuals, and government departments responsible for capacity strengthening in nutrition.
• Contribute to the preparation of program reports, monthly updates, technical brief and other necessary documents in a thorough and timely manner. 
• Ensure the integration of Gender and Inclusive Development principles into nutrition and health services at different levels.
• Provide technical support for documentation of the best practices, success stories and lessons learned.

Requirements

• Master's degree in social sciences, or a related field with three to five years of relevant work experience in development sector and academic institution with emphasis on course design and training or a bachelor's degree with over five years of experience as mentioned above.
• Experience in program management, curriculum development/review, project cycle management, organizational assessment, teaching learning pedagogy, strategic planning, training, facilitation and local partner capacity strengthening.
• Proactive in managing multiple tasks, managing and working in the virtual work environment, and flexible, adaptive and open to managing time as needed for and demanded by the project and for working with different teams in different time zones as needed.  
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication, coordination and collaboration, team building and management, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written English and Nepali including documentation skills.