We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nutrition Officer

Job No: 596801
Location:  Abuja
Employment Type: Full Time
Categories: Health and Nutrition

Job Summary

• To enable UNICEF to execute the above strategy, the office is seeking a Nutrition Officer (NOB) TA at the L2 level on a temporary assignment to support the nutrition team with advocacy, policy formulation, and creating an enabling environment for implementing nutrition programs in Nigeria.
• The candidate will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on policy-strengthening activities and will represent UNICEF in advocacy platforms and activities as appropriate.
• The Nutrition Officer will report to the Nutrition Specialist (Enabling Environment-NOC).

Responsibilities

• Support to programme development and planning
• Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results. 
• Technical and operational support to programme implementation
• Advocacy, networking and partnership building
• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

Minimum requirements

• Education: Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in one of the following fields is required:  nutrition, public health, nutritional epidemiology, global/international health and nutrition, health/nutrition research, policy, health sciences, nutrition epidemiology, or another health-related science field.
• Work Experience: A minimum of two years of relevant professional work experience. Experience in implementing nutrition programming in and emergency context is required.
• Skills: Experience in advocacy, partnership building, and results-based management.
• Language Requirements : Fluency in English is required.

Desirables:

• Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language
• Knowledge of the UN rules, procedures and regulations and/or working experience for the UN or other international development organization would be an asset.
• Good knowledge and hands on experience in analytical, research methodology and statistical skills is an added advantage.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.