Overview
The Nutritionist will strengthen WFP South Sudan's capacity to deliver high-quality nutrition programming, providing technical guidance and operational oversight.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensuring quality planning, implementation oversight, risk management, and performance tracking of nutrition activities.
- Providing technical advice on nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programme and policy issues.
- Coordinating and supporting emergency nutrition responses.
- Supporting Field Offices and partners to develop operational and implementation plans.
- Working with procurement, logistics, finance and other programme units for effective delivery.
- Supporting strengthening of national nutrition initiatives and government policies.
- Supporting proposal development, grant monitoring, tracking and reporting.
- Supporting the organization and functioning of national and sub-national nutrition coordination forums.
- Supporting quality implementation of CMAM and MIYCN approaches.
- Strengthening the technical capacity of WFP programme staff and cooperating partners.
- Ensuring national and WFP nutrition policies, standards and guidelines are applied consistently.
- Supporting and/or overseeing nutrition and HIV&AIDS/TB-related assessments.
- Supporting monitoring, evaluation and learning for the nutrition portfolio.
- Supporting Food and Nutrition Security Monitoring System (FNSMS), Standardized Expanded Nutrition Surveys (SENS), and Joint Assessment Missions (JAM) processes.
- Contributing to emergency preparedness actions.
- Being flexible to accommodate additional tasks as required.
- Conducting mission travel to deep field locations.
Required Experience
For master's degree holder or higher: A minimum of 5 years of postgraduate progressive international experience in implementation of emergency nutrition programmes in complex emergencies and/or hardship setting is required. For a candidate with a first university degree, a minimum of 7 years of the above experience is required. Experience in working in public health and nutrition related activities in field-based settings. Proven end-to-end implementation of CMAM components and MIYCN interventions in humanitarian contexts is required. Practical experience planning, supervising, and analysing nutrition/food security assessments, including at least one of: FNSMS, SENS, or JAM; ability to translate findings into programme adjustments.
Qualifications
Advanced University degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Food Technology, Medicine or another relevant field. Or first university degree (bachelor’s) in the above field with additional years of related work experience.
