Minimum Requirements

•    Advanced university degree in public policy or administration, management, public health, nutrition, agriculture, or related field.
•    At least 7 years of professional experience in managing nutrition, food security, public health programs, policy processes.
•    Working knowledge of English.
•    Candidate should be national of Liberia. 

FAO Core Competencies

•    Results Focus
•    Teamwork
•    Communication
•    Building Effective Relationships
•    Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Technical/Functional Skills 

•    Technical background in nutrition, food security, and/or public health; OR technical background in management and change management.
•    Knowledge of the SUN Movement is an asset.
•    Proven ability to strengthen capacity of national counterparts and partners to sustain activities and decentralised processes.
•    Strong skills in facilitation, project management, team building, and conflict resolution or mediation.
•    Ability to manage and conduct large and complex analyses, including collating and presenting multi-source data, monitoring and evaluation and progress reporting.
•    Excellent stakeholder engagement skills.
•    Ability to work in a team and good interpersonal skills.
•    Good computer applications skills.
•    Good planning and organizational skills.
•    Sense of initiative and anticipation.

Selection Criteria 

•    Extend of experience in nutrition, food security, and/or public health; OR technical background in management and change management.
•    Independent worker and excellent skills working as part of a team.
•    Excellent reading, writing and communication skills in English
•    Very high skills/knowledge of background related to the ToR’s Requirements
•    Experience with UN, and  public sector would be an asset
•    Experience in managing multi-parties and multi-sector working groups.
•    Experience in institutional capacity building at the national level.
•    Experience in the Liberia country context.
•    Previous working experience with governments, donors and civil society organizations is an asset. 
•    Experience in monitoring and evaluation.
•    Experience in decentralization processes is desirable.