Overview
The Nutrition Analyst Level I will strengthen the capacity of government counterparts to undertake nutrition analysis and support the translation of analytical findings into programme design and policy recommendations.
Key Responsibilities
- Assessment of market-based nutrition interventions and local food solutions.
- Review of data related to household food expenditure, dietary intake, market functionality, food prices, locally produced complementary foods, Specially Formulated Foods and other local food solutions.
- Analysis of the feasibility of meeting nutrition need of moderate acute malnourished children and children at risk of malnutrition.
- Assessment of the nutritional adequacy of cash-based transfer for nutrition, local food solutions and recipes.
- Strengthen capacity and application of Enhance analysis.
- Contribute to the development and tailoring of training on cost and affordability analysis and intervention modelling using Enhance.
- Support training of WFP Country Offices and government counterparts on cost and affordability analysis and intervention modelling using Enhance.
- Support trainings of enumerators for primary data collection of food prices.
- Support WFP Country Offices and government counterparts to set up cost and affordability monitoring to inform early warning and anticipatory action systems and adaptation to programme response.
- Support documentation and development of guidance as needed.
- Cost and affordability of healthy and sustainable diets; Fill the Nutrient Gap, Sustainable Healthy Diet analysis and CO tailored modelling.
- Support secondary data reviews and synthesis on nutrition, dietary intake, food security, food prices, household income and expenditure, and socio‑economic indicators to inform WFP programme design, Fill the Nutrient Gap (FNG), and Sustainable Healthy Diet analyses.
- Provide technical support to WFP Country Offices and national stakeholders on cost and affordability analyses, ensuring alignment with WFP priorities, FNG objectives, and sustainable healthy diets frameworks.
- Support the identification, assessment, and modelling of intervention options across strategies, delivery modalities, and transfer values, informed by WFP analytical tools and evidence.
- Contribute to the preparation and facilitation of country‑level FNG and Sustainable Healthy Diet processes, including inception, validation, and dissemination of findings.
- Support the development of decision‑support and advocacy products, including key messages, slides, briefs, and reports, translating analytical findings into actionable programme and policy recommendations.
- Prepare topic briefs and ad hoc nutrition analytics in response to internal WFP needs and external stakeholder requests.
Required Experience
Between 3-5 years of relevant professional experience, including research and data analysis. Experience with dietary assessment, linear programming-based such as Cost of the Diet, Opti-food or other Nutrition Modelling tools, GIS and/or mapping software. Previous experience of working in low-middle income countries, experience in fragile contexts considered an asset. Knowledge of different types of programmes such as social protection, health, school feeding, livelihoods and resilience and emergency programmes is considered an asset.
Qualifications
Graduate level (Masters or above) in Public Health (Epidemiology or biostatistics), Nutrition, Economics (or Econometrics), Sustainable food systems, Agronomy, Statistics or other socio-economic disciplines with a strong quantitative data analysis component.
