Nutrition Officer

The Nutrition Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance to both preventive and emergency nutrition areas in ER 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.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

• Support to preventive and emergency nutrition programme development and planning
• Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results including supplies.
• Technical and operational support to programme implementation
• Networking and partnership building
• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

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Minimum requirements:

• 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
• 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.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

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