Nutrition Specialist at the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) - For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nutrition Specialist, P3

Job Number: 520838
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Work Type: Temporary Appointment

Purpose of the Post

• The purpose of the post will be to support the nutrition section in the country office to provide guidance and coordination to the Government of Nigeria to conduct national Dietary Assessment and Micronutrients Survey.

Major Responsibilities

• Carry out day-to-day management of survey funds and operation of dietary assessment and micronutrients survey activities.
• Liaise with, and coordinate CDC Atlanta to ensure continuous and timely technical support to the Government of Nigeria on the biomarker component of the survey.
• Â Consolidate various pieces of technical information, documents, tools, meeting decisions/minutes, and others as may be required and ensure their timely availability to inform survey decisions.
• Work closely with IITA to ensure survey activities are implemented as plan.
• Monitor implementing partner work plans and provide recommendations for corrective measures and/or improvement of the survey implementation.
• Prepare and consolidate reports in line with agreed reporting modalities, requirements and needs.
• Take part in development of concepts, proposals and strategic notes in relation with the survey.
• Coordinate and follow up on supplies requirements and availability and to ensure the supplies and materials for the biomarkers meet national and international standards.
• Conduct due diligent of technical/financial reports of the assigned component of the survey.
• Provide technical support to the Federal Ministry of Health and other relevant agencies to ensure micronutrients data collection, collation and reporting meet national and international standard.
• Perform any other duty as may be required for the success of the micronutrients survey.

Qualifications, Experience and Competencies
Academic Qualifications:

• Advance degree in Nutrition, Nutrition Epidemiology and/or relevant to Epidemiology, Public Health, Health Sciences, International Health, Community Health and Nutrition, Health and Nutrition Promotion and Disease Prevention, or other relevant discipline(s).

Work Experience:

• 5+ years' experience working in nutrition programming or nutrition research
• Extensive experience in implementing nutrition surveys
• Technical knowledge and experience in micronutrients and dietary assessment
• Proven knowledge and experience in designing and implementing large scale micronutrients surveys is particularly preferred.
• Strong analytical, research methodology and statistical skills
• Capacity to work in a team with diverse backgrounds
• Excellent writing skills
• Fluency in English (both written and spoken).

For every Child, you demonstrate:

• UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The competencies required for this post are:

• View our competency framework at: http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

Application Closing Date
23:55:00 GMT+0100 (West Africa Standard Time); 1st April, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
• UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.