Ruba Abu-Taleb

• Provide technical support and assist in the development and implementation of various activities and processes within the School Feeding program supporting alignment with wider program policies and guidelines.
• Provide specialized project management support to the School Feeding and Resilience program to ensure that the various activities are performed within the established targets following WFP policies and procedures.
• Prepare a range of reports and highlight trends/issues ensuring deliverables adhere to corporate standards and quality control.
• Ensure and/or perform accurate, timely recording of data within School Feeding and Resilience as well as consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
• Liaise with internal counterparts to support effective collaboration, implementation, and monitoring of ongoing project activities.
• Support the capacity building of WFP staff and cooperating partners and national government counterparts under the School Feeding and Resilience activities.
• Act as a point of contact for resolution of a range of operational queries and problems that may arise within the program.
• Constructive coordination with program and support functions within WFP.

• Oversee the technical direction of nutrition activities.
• Provide strategic leadership on nutrition policy and programming.
• Provide guidance and technical support in alignment with nutrition working group and relevant health policies and strategies.
• Contribute to program/project design, implementation, learning, and monitoring and evaluation through active collaboration with project teams.
• Help develop internal organizational nutrition training and develop tools, guidelines, standards to improve program quality.
• Contribute to the learning agenda by writing nutrition background documents, briefs, and presentations, including carrying out relevant literature reviews, landscape analyses, and data analysis.
• Actively engage in nutrition networks and forums to support government nutrition priorities and promote involvement of multiple government sectors, donors, and the private sector in nutrition-related initiatives.
• Participate as the nutrition representative as it relates to nutrition initiatives in Jordan; and Maintain diplomatic and high-quality interactions and clear and consistent communications internally and with partners in the field.
• Facilitate needed coordination to maintain systematic ongoing cooperation between nutrition and reproductive health programming to ensure;

Midwives are properly trained to assist maternal malnutrition screening

Midwives are properly trained to support mothers initiate breastfeeding within the first hour after delivery.

Nutrition staff reach out to mothers soon in postpartum to ensure breastfeeding is ongoing or otherwise to provide needed IYCF services.

Nutrition staff provide ongoing group education and personal counselling on exclusive breastfeeding, proper introduction of complementary feeding, feeding sick children and child spacing.

Supervise nutrition activities, evaluating progress through outputs and impact using both quantitative and qualitative data, in analysis and taking appropriate action as needed to ensure continued progress.

Support the development of new proposals by providing data linked to the assessed needs.

- Health Sector Gender Focal Point with the following responsibilities

• Advocate gender mainstreaming strategy; gender analysis within situation analyses and a clear disaggregation of the gender needs of refugees.
• Technical Support within Sector Meetings.
• Support sector assessments to disaggregate data by sex and age;

Support the inclusion of gender equality measures (ADAPT ACT C framework[1]) in implementation activities and monitoring and evaluation;

Contribute sector information and analysis adherence to the IASC guidelines.

Support inter-sector linkages for gender mainstreaming.

Active contribution to all gender-related data analyses and sector-specific needs assessments.

Capacity Development; Identify the needs of colleagues for information and training in gender equality mainstreaming.

• Liaising between national and international NGOs and UNHCR/JHAS relating to all nutrition activities.
• Active member representative of nutrition program in the camp and urban national health sector, Nutrition working group and Gender focal point for the health sector.
• Oversee the implementation of all nutrition related activities within JHAS clinics and outreach structures.
• Oversee the implementation of the community nutrition promotion.
• Support health practitioners at clinics with necessary training and teaching materials.
• Support program unit; ensure standard monitoring and evaluation procedures are in place to support timely reporting and documentation.

• Assisting the academic teaching process in order to provide high-quality undergraduate teaching and student support services.
• Review sessions
• Hold office hours
• Uploading course materials and make it available to students.
• Attend instructor’s lectures regularly.