Location: Yerevan, Armenia
Category:
Type: Full Time
Deadline: 20-Jun-19 12:00:00 AM
Salary:
Description
Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Country Director and the direct supervision of the Programme Policy Officer, the National Consultant/ Nutritionist will provide strategic and programmatic support to WFP Armenia in designing and implementing nutrition interventions, as well as will support the capacity strengthening activities.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of nutrition projects and activities, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider nutrition policies and guidance;
- Support the evidence-base generation around nutrition, particularly, to the design, implementation, data analyses and reporting of the nutrition assessments and studies ensuring that rigorous quality standards are maintained;
- Support the Government in nutrition and healthy lifestyle education curricula development in line with global lessons learned and best practices;
- Support the nutrition Behavior Change Communication (BCC) strategy and action plan development and implementation;
- Provide technical assistance to relevant ministries and the Country Office for the preparation of regulations and guidelines on nutrition aspects of the school meals, in line with national health and hygiene specifications and international standards ensuring children receive diversified meals that meet their basic food and nutrition needs;
- Ensure a coordinated approach of the specific and defined nutrition projects and activities with wider programmes/ projects that complies with WFP standards and procedures;
- Contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on nutrition activities that enable informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders;
- Work closely with key partners and stakeholders, including Government counterparts at central and field levels, NGOs, implementing partners and other UN agencies;
- Contribute to the nutrition capacity strengthening of the national partner responsible for the school meals programme administration and management, as required;
- Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government to prepare for and respond to nutrition needs, such as production and review of training materials;
- Perform other related duties, if required.
RequiredQualifications
- Education: advanced university degree in Nutrition, Public Health Nutrition, Public Health, Food Technology, Medicine or other relevant field; or first university degree with additional years of related work experience and/ or trainings/ courses;
- Experience: at least 4 years of progressively responsible professional experience in public health, food security and nutrition related activities. Experience and exposure to implementation of national/ international development programmes. Experience in identifying and defining nutrition issues/ problems within a country, as well as designing and conducting quantitative and qualitative research;
- Knowledge and skills: strong analytical, written and oral communication skills; excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team; ability to plan and organize work with minimum supervision; ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines; foundational knowledge of the core public health sciences (i.e. biostatistics, epidemiology, etc.); ability to appropriately interpret the nutrition situation, analyze primary causes of malnutrition, define limitations to the analysis and prepare an overview of the nutrition situation in country;
- Languages: fluency (level C) in both oral and written communication in English and Armenian languages; intermediate knowledge (level B) of Russian language is desired.
Benefits
Job URL: iJob.am - National Consultant/ Nutritionist @ United Nations World Food Programme, Armenia
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