Technical Expertise
Action Against Hunger's mission is to save lives by eliminating hunger through the prevention, detection, and treatment of undernutrition, particularly during and after emergencies related to conflicts and natural disasters.
Every day our teams conduct scientific research so that we can improve our operational programs. To be able to continue making progress in our global fight against hunger, our actions rely on seven areas of competence:
- Nutrition and Health
- Food Security and Livelihood
- Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
- Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
- Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning
Nutrition & Health
Action Against Hunger is much more than food. Improving the coverage of essential health and nutrition interventions throughout the entire spectrum of maternal and childcare, including the treatment of malnutrition, is our priority.
In the aftermath of emergencies related to conflict and various sudden and diverse disasters, Action Against Hunger implements projects at the heart of populations to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, with a particular focus on essential nutritional interventions.
Whether you are a doctor, nutritionist, nurse, epidemiologist, midwife/maieutician, pharmacist or public health specialist, we need your help to respond to global health and nutrition crises, support health systems and ultimately ensure the autonomy of actors.
At Headquarters
As headquarters-based Advisors, you are major contributors to the organization in ensuring the quality, relevance and technical innovation of our interventions in the sector of Nutrition and Health, in order to improve our interventions, support teams in the field and develop our overall expertise in this sector.
You actively participate in the development of a strategy to strengthen the skills and knowledge of all stakeholders in this sector on Country Offices and at headquarters.
You also analyze, evaluate and contribute to the development of our strategies and positioning in Nutrition & Health, while also guaranteeing their promotion at national and international level.
In the Field
As a Nutrition & Health Program Manager, you play a key role in the implementation and monitoring of integrated Nutrition & Health projects at the heart of communities and in collaboration with local partners. Together with a team under your supervision, you ensure the follow-up and adaptation of the minimum medical and nutritional packages administered to beneficiaries.
As a Nutrition & Health Head of Department, you coordinate the identification of humanitarian needs and nutrition & health interventions at the national level, to help define the strategies for a given mission, in compliance with our standards and national policies. You represent the organization before national and international bodies related to your sector.
As a Nutrition Surveillance Expert, you coordinate nutritional surveys (SMART, Rapid SMART, SQUEAC, SLEAC, etc.), providing training and capacity building for partners in these different systematic approaches, in order to accurately assess and monitor the nutritional needs of a given context and best meet the needs of beneficiaries.
Today, Action Against Hunger has changed its Nutrition & Health approach from a vertical approach, focused on nutrition interventions, to a more integrated and horizontal approach focusing on strengthening health systems. As a Health Systems Strengthening Expert, your objective is to carry out joint diagnosis and programming work with partners in the areas of intervention.
Food Security and Livelihood
Action Against Hunger is much more than food. Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) is one of the pillars of our organization’s intervention; the aim is to enable vulnerable populations to have access to food of sufficient quality and quantity.
Our objectives are many, complex and often specific to the context of intervention: We therefore implement various actions in order to achieve our objectives:
- Food assistance
- Agricultural activities
- Income-generating activities in rural or urban areas
- Food Situation Monitoring
- Advocacy
So if you are an agricultural engineer, a specialist in socioeconomics, or hold a master’s degree in humanitarian project management, we need your skills.
At Headquarters
As headquarters-based Advisors, you are major contributors to the organization in ensuring the quality, relevance and technical innovation of our interventions in the FSL sector, in order to improve our interventions, support teams in the field and develop our overall expertise in this sector.
You actively participate in the development of a strategy to strengthen the skills and knowledge of all stakeholders in the sector on Country Offices and at headquarters.
You also analyze, evaluate and contribute to the development of our strategies and positioning in FSL, while also guaranteeing their promotion at national and international level.
In the Field
You play a key role in implementing and monitoring integrated projects in the areas of food security and livelihoods. You also promote your interventions to authorities, donors, and partners. Working with a team that you supervise, you ensure follow-up and contribute to discussions on the strategy and positioning of the FSL department.
As a Food Security and Livelihoods Head of Department, your main mission is to guarantee the quality, relevance and technical innovation of the FSL strategy and interventions on the Country Office. In addition, you contribute to the definition of the country strategy while coordinating needs identification and project proposal formulation. You support the FSL Program Managers in the implementation of these projects and represent the organization before national and international bodies related to your sector.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
To prevent malnutrition, we strive to improve access to clean water by constructing water points, latrines, drainage systems, etc. Our prevention efforts also involve raising awareness of good hygiene practices and water management.
After emergencies—epidemics or natural disasters—we take direct action on the ground by distributing water and hygiene kits, providing sanitation, preventing risks, and coordinating humanitarian responses.
Our main missions are:
- Contextual analyses and studies: assessment of water resources, socio-economic studies related to WASH
- Construction and rehabilitation of latrines, composting, and ecological sanitation
- Waste management: sewage and treatment systems, drainage systems and pits, medical waste management, recycling
- Transmission vector control: risk analysis, hygiene awareness, distribution of equipment
- Water supply and water management: construction and rehabilitation of water points (wells, boreholes, catchments, etc.), installation of water extraction systems (pumps, water trucking, water treatment)
- Disaster risk management and response: preparedness, prevention, emergency response, aid distribution, watercourse protection
- Research and capitalization
- Hygiene: construction and rehabilitation of sanitary infrastructure (showers, hand washing facilities, etc.), social marketing, hygiene education (schools), hygiene promotion
- Knowledge transfer and capacity building: training in universities, policy development
- Advocacy on water, sanitation, and hygiene with civil society, institutions, etc.
In the Field
As a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Program Manager you ensure the implementation and monitoring of activities and help define the positioning and strategy of the Country Office.
With a team under your supervision, you work to rehabilitate and/or build latrines, wells and drill boreholes. You also contribute to hygiene prevention by working with local populations, displaced populations in villages and refugee camps.
As a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Head of Department you coordinate interventions at the national level, in compliance with Action Against Hunger standards and national policies. You also represent Action Against Hunger before national and international bodies related to your sector.
As a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Co-Facilitator you contribute towards the development of the sectoral and multisectoral strategy at the national cluster level, to ensure a coherent and effective response to ongoing humanitarian crises,. You stimulate working relationships and mobilize the different actors within the cluster while representing the organization.
At Headquarters
As a WASH Operational Technical Advisor you provide support to the field and headquarters teams to ensure the quality, relevance and technical innovation of Action Against Hunger’s interventions. You provide contextual technical analysis according to geographical areas, technical advice to the WASH Head of Department and develop technical expertise.
As a WASH Sector Advisor you will develop strategies and operational positioning, and ensure the development and monitoring of operational research to promote the development and ensure the coherence of the WASH sector.
Mental Health, Psychosocial Support
Every day, vulnerable populations in the countries where we operate have to cope with a considerable number of problems linked to climate, political issues or family imbalance, often in a highly volatile security context. Action contre la Faim believes that to act effectively and sustainably, our interventions must consider the integration of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support into its programs.
The Mental Health and Psychosocial Support sector develops autonomous projects or projects integrated with other sectors of the association.
In the field
As a Mental Health, Care Practices, Gender and Protection Program Manager you promote your interventions before the authorities, donors and partners. Together with a team under your supervision, you ensure the follow-up and contribute to the discussions on the strategy and positioning of the MHCPGP department.
As a Mental Health, Care Practices, Gender and Protection Head of Department, you must guarantee the quality, relevance and scale-up of the MHCPGP strategy and interventions on the Country Office. In addition, you will help define the country strategy while coordinating needs identification and project proposal formulation. You support the MHCPGP Program Managers in the implementation of these projects and represent the organization before national and international bodies related to your sector.
As a Mental Health and Care Practices Expert, you support the implementation of MHCPGP activities through the psychological care of displaced populations. In addition, you will establish a psychological management protocol and data compilation tools.
At Headquarters
You actively participate in the development of a strategy to strengthen the skills and knowledge of all stakeholders on Country Offices and at headquarters.
You also analyze, evaluate and contribute to the development of our strategies and positioning in MHCPGP, while also guaranteeing their promotion at national and international level.
In order to improve our interventions, support teams in the field, and develop the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support sector as a whole, as Referents based at headquarters, you are key players in the organization, ensuring the quality, relevance, and technical innovation of our interventions.
You actively participate in the development of a strategy to strengthen the skills and knowledge of all actors in the sector at the country offices and at headquarters.
You also analyze, evaluate, and contribute to the development of our strategies and positioning in MHPSS, while also ensuring their promotion at the national and international levels.
You will define and conduct operational, high-quality scientific research across multiple sectors for ACF’s interventions, contributing your expertise in the field of mental health and psychosocial support.
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning
Action Against Hunger implements Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) systems to effectively meet the needs of communities by acting in the most effective, efficient and sustainable way possible.
The MEAL activities aim to provide methodological support to all program teams to ensure that the quality and relevance of program monitoring and internal evaluations carried out on the mission comply with Action Against Hunger’s operational framework.
As a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Program manager or Head of Department, you will be responsible for the implementation of MEAL activities and ensure their follow-up and quality.
Following the analyses produced and recommendations formulated by these verifications, you will also be in charge of monitoring and supporting the adaptation of project activities implemented in the field, in order to guarantee high quality standards in all projects at Country Office, regional and headquarters levels.
