Nutritionist,NOB

Area of expertise: Nutrition

Country: Senegal

Type of contract: Long term opportunities

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.  Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Advanced University degree in Public Health Nutrition, Nutrition, Food Technology, Medicine or other relevant field.

Experience: 3 or more years of postgraduate professional experience in a relevant field with at least one year in food security or nutrition

Language: Fluency (level C) in French and English .

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

This job is found in the WFP Regional Bureau for West Africa (RBD) in Dakar, and reports to the Senior Regional Nutrition Advisor. Job holder operates with a high degree of independence, may provide technical support to specific nutrition programmes and is involved in day–to-day activities and analytical work.

JOB PURPOSE

To provide support to regional nutrition programmes and activities that contribute to meeting the nutritional needs of WFP’s beneficiaries and achieving zero hunger.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Contribute to the development of nutrition projects and activities, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider nutrition policies and guidance.

2. Provide project management support to specific and defined nutrition projects and activities, ensuring a co-ordinated approach with wider programmes/projects that complies with WFP standards and procedures.

3. Develop and co-ordinate data gathering and monitoring/assessment systems ensuring that rigorous quality standards are maintained.

4. Track and analyse data to provide input into reporting activities and contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on nutrition activities that enables informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.

5. Liaise with implementing partners (internal and external) to monitor ongoing projects, ensuring effective collaboration, timeliness and efficiency, and highlight potential risks to project delivery.

6. Support the identification of potential partners and partnership negotiations to ensure a collaborative and holistic approach to meeting nutrition needs.

7. Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national governments to prepare for and respond to nutrition needs. For exampleadvising and supporting the development and review of training materials.

8. Guide more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with more complex analysis and queries.

9. Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food and nutrition assistance needs.

10. Other tasks as required.

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.

•  Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).

•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.

•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people’s skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.

•  Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.

•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.

•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.

•  Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.

•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.

•  Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.

•  Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.

•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.

•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

Capability Name	Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level
Knowledge of Nutrients	Utilizes knowledge of vitamins and nutrients to understand the causes of malnutrition, the relationships between the different types of malnutrition, and is able to articulate the UNICEF conceptual model.
Situation Analysis and Evidence Assessment	Able to appropriately interpret the nutrition situation, analyze primary causes of malnutrition, define limitations to the analysis (e.g. seasonality) and prepare an overview of the food security and nutrition situation in country.
Knowledge of Public Health	Has foundational knowledge of the core public health sciences (i.e., biostatistics, epidemiology, social science, environmental health, and prevention of chronic and infectious disease and injury) in order to assess a country’s/region’s health situation.
Knowledge of Food System	Ability to analyze how food systems influence the diets of vulnerable groups and identify how and where food systems may contribute to specific nutrient gaps.
Applying Programme & Policy Standards	Leverages nutrition knowledge to provide technical advice to governments to design and implement country nutrition programmes that follow international and WFP agency standards and guidance.

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

This section is optional to describe additional responsibilities & knowledge required for the specific job.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Experience and exposure to implementation of national/international development programmes.

• Experience working in public health/food security/ nutrition related activities.

• Experience identifying and defining nutrition issues/problems within a country.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. IN ORDER TO APPLY: Applicants should follow application process below and submit their CV.

Application procedures: Go to: http://www.wfp.org/careers/job-openings; Step 1: Create your online CV. Step 2: Click on “Description” to read the position requirements and “Apply” to submit your application. You must complete Step 2 for your application to be considered for this vacancy.

NB: Position open to Senegalese nationals only.

Only shortlisted candidate will be contacted.

Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

November 9, 2017