Overview
Consultant to reformulate Tom Brown into a safer, more consistent, treatment-grade product for moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) in Northeast Nigeria, focusing on nutrition formulation.
Key Responsibilities
- Define the target nutritional profile and formulation guardrails for reformulated Tom Brown.
- Develop 3–4 candidate reformulations using locally viable ingredients.
- Assess each option’s nutritional strengths, gaps, risks, and trade-offs against treatment requirements.
- Advise on fortification, premix, bioavailability, nutrient stability, and ingredient interactions.
- Identify preparation, sensory, acceptability, and caregiver-use risks that should be tested before pilot production.
Required Experience
- Familiarity with RUSF, fortified blended foods, supplementary feeding products, or similar nutrition products
- Humanitarian, public-sector nutrition, Nigeria, or comparable-context experience - preferably in Borno State
- Experience designing simple, scalable formulations for young children or nutritionally vulnerable populations
