Nutrition Specialist (P-3), FT, #00118343, Antananarivo
Organizational Context
UNICEF operates globally to save children's lives, defend their rights, and help them reach their full potential. Committed to promoting every child's rights, UNICEF offers diverse professional and personal development opportunities, fostering purpose while serving communities worldwide. It welcomes a diverse, passionate culture with attractive compensation and benefits, building careers for those dedicated to children.
Job Purpose
The purpose of this Nutrition Specialist role is to address Madagascar's high burden of child malnutrition, particularly poor dietary diversity among young children. The specialist will provide technical leadership and programme support for UNICEF Madagascar's "First Food initiative," which aims to improve the diets of children aged 6–23 months through food systems approaches and multisectoral partnerships. This involves advancing innovative solutions, strengthening collaborations, and scaling up interventions to enhance child dietary diversity and nutrition outcomes, especially in southern and south-eastern Madagascar. Additionally, the role supports the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of broader nutrition programmes for school-age children and adolescents, translating evidence and policy into impactful actions for improved nutrition across the country.
Responsibilities
The Nutrition Specialist will provide crucial technical leadership and programme support to advance innovative solutions aimed at improving child dietary diversity and nutrition outcomes. This includes strengthening partnerships and scaling up interventions, particularly focusing on priority regions in southern and south-eastern Madagascar. A key responsibility involves supporting the comprehensive design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of nutrition programmes tailored for school-age children and adolescents, ensuring that evidence and policy are effectively translated into impactful actions for young people. The role encompasses various functions such as programme development and planning, robust programme management, and diligent monitoring and delivery of results. Furthermore, the specialist will offer technical and operational support for programme implementation, actively engage in networking and partnership building, and drive innovation, knowledge management, and capacity building initiatives. Collaboration with government counterparts, UN agencies, development partners, civil society organizations, and other UNICEF sectors is essential to strengthen multisectoral approaches and generate vital evidence.
Work Experience
Information not available.
Skills
Technical leadership in nutrition, Programme design and planning, Programme management and implementation, Monitoring and evaluation, Partnership building and networking, Innovation and knowledge management, Capacity building, Multisectoral approach development, Evidence generation and translation