Nutrition Officer

United Nations Children's Fund


Job Description

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The Nutrition Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the food systems and nutrition programmes/projects within the Country Programme, from development planning to delivery of results. In doing so, the incumbent implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of results. The incumbent will collaborate with the social protection, agriculture, and WASH sectors to enhance a multisectoral nutrition program and support UNICEF’s priority initiatives related to the food environment.
Key functions/accountabilities:
  • Support to programme development and planning
  • Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
  • Technical and operational support to programme implementation
  • Networking and partnership building
  • Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education:
  • A university degree in one of the following fields is required:  nutrition, public health, nutritional epidemiology, global/international health and nutrition, health/nutrition research, policy and/or management, health sciences, nutritional epidemiology, or another health-related science field.
Experience:
  • A minimum of two years of professional experience in a developing country in one or more of the following areas is required: nutrition, public health, nutrition planning and management, or maternal, infant and child health/nutrition care.
  • Experience in health/nutrition programme/project development in a UN system agency or organization is an asset
Language requirements:
  • Fluency in English is required.  Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.

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