Technical support on Assessment of School Nutrition Policies

To support governments in developing comprehensive policies for school-age children, UNICEF proposes to use the Nutrition Environment Assessment Tool (NEAT-s) for schools to assess school nutrition policies, interventions, and programmes to generate evidence for government to inform their policy and for monitoring purposes.

To address overweight and obesity, UNICEF is supporting governments across the ECA region to introduce and strengthen key policies and legislation including taxes on sugary drinks, controls on the marketing of unhealthy food and drink, front-of-pack nutrition labelling on packaged foods and school-based policies related to provision of healthy meals. The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education in Uzbekistan has requested specific support from UNICEF to assess the policy and programmes related to the food environment in and around schools.

To support country level assessment, UNICEF is seeking qualified expert to assess school nutrition policies, interventions, and programmes in a selected number of schools across the country; provide technical support to the Ministry of Health and or Ministry of Education in Uzbekistan for the drafting of school food policy briefs and advocacy materials for improving the school food environment, and provide actionable recommendations to improve School feeding/school food environment.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

• An advanced university degree University degree in Health/Public Health;
• At least 10 years work experience working at an advanced level in public health/nutrition policy including research and policy development;
• Prior experience conducting school-based research or assessments;
• Extensive knowledge of school nutrition environments;
• Knowledge of the in-country nutrition challenges and nutrition policy environment;
• Fluent in Uzbek, Russian, and English;
• Strong facilitation and coordination abilities.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/580071