Senior Ethics Advisor
USAID Scaling Up Nutrition Technical Assistance (SUN TA)
DAI works at the cutting edge of international development, combining technical excellence, professional project management, and exceptional customer service to solve our clients’ most complex problems. Since 1970, DAI has worked in 150 developing and transition countries, providing comprehensive development solutions in areas including crisis mitigation and stability operations, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, health and nutrition, water sanitation and hygiene, private sector development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS, avian influenza control, water and natural resources management, and energy and climate change. Clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and host-country governments.
Project Background:
The Scaling Up Nutrition Program is a cross-ministry and multi-donor program to reduce stunting in Zambia through implementation of the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) 1,000 Most Critical Days Program.
SUN TA provides support and direct technical assistance to sub-national local government departments in target districts to plan, implement, coordinate, and monitor integrated nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific activities to reduce the rate of stunting among Zambian children under two and improve the nutritional status of pregnant and lactating mothers. USAID has identified two main objectives that address stunting, including (1) Adequate Quantity and Quality of Dietary Intake among Target Groups; and (2) Adequate Health Conditions for Biological Utilization of Nutrients. SUN TA interventions increase access and availability of safe, diverse, nutritious food; adoption of better child feeding and household hygiene practices; and access to improved health, water and sanitation services. The project prioritizes sustainability by improving intra-household joint decision making and building the capacity of local government and their stakeholders to ensure coordination, accountability, and learning, following the Scaling Up Nutrition model.
Purpose:
The Senior Ethics Advisor is responsible to install an ethics culture and ensure compliance to the ethics amongst SUN TA staff members. The Senior Ethics Advisor will be an anchor of a successful ethics culture. The Senior Ethics Advisor stands at the intersection between auditing, internal control and management’s legal responsibilities, and is the guardian of SUN TA’s code of conduct. He/she supplies the top management with the necessary information for the SUN TA leadership to act appropriately in instilling and maintaining the ethics culture the SMT desires The Senior Ethics Advisor supports the Chief of Party in ensuring that all SUN TA staff observe and perform their functions consistent with the ethical standards required by the DAI Code of Conduct The Senior Ethics Advisor reports directly to the Chief of Party.
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