Overview
The Nutrition Analyst will strengthen the capacity of government counterparts to undertake Fill the Nutrient Gap analysis, Sustainable Healthy Diet analyses and related cost and affordability assessments. The role supports the translation of analytical findings into programme design, transfer value design, and policy-relevant decision-support products.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day technical oversight, mentoring, and guidance to junior team members, including review of analytical work and outputs.
- Collate and review data related to food expenditure, dietary intake, market functionality, and food prices.
- Assess the feasibility of meeting the nutrition needs of malnourished children and children at risk of malnutrition.
- Assess the nutritional adequacy of food and cash-based transfers.
- Strengthen capacity and application of nutrition and diet analysis using Enhance.
- Develop and lead training on cost and affordability analysis and intervention modelling using Enhance.
- Support trainings of enumerators on variables related to diet affordability.
- Support WFP Country Offices and government counterparts to set up cost and affordability monitoring.
- Support secondary data review, synthesis and quantitative analysis related to nutrition, dietary intake, food security, food prices, household income and expenditure, and socio-economic indicators.
- Provide technical support to WFP Country Offices and national stakeholders on cost, affordability and intervention modelling analyses.
- Contribute to the development, adaptation and piloting of new analytical methods and modelling approaches.
- Support the preparation of decision-support, advocacy and dissemination products translating findings into actionable programme and policy recommendations.
Required Experience
Between 6-8 years of relevant professional experience, of which, at least 3-4 years of experience in food and nutrition data analysis. Management or supervision experience desired. Proven experience with dietary assessment, linear programming-based (Cost of the Diet, Optifood, Enhance) and other Nutrition Modelling tools. Experience supporting capacity strengthening initiatives on analytics, especially in low-and-middle income countries. Experience presenting analysis findings or evidence to diverse audiences, including government stakeholders, programme staff and academic partners. Experience leading stakeholder engagement processes to develop evidence-based policy and programme recommendations from evidence and analytics desirable. Experience cleaning, processing and analysing large datasets and in database management preferred.
Qualifications
Graduate level (Masters or above) in Public Health, Nutrition, Economics (or Econometrics), Food systems, Agronomy, Environmental Sciences, Statistics or other socio-economic disciplines with a strong quantitative data analysis component.
