Vacancy Announcement: Nutrition Manager (Diets & Practices), P4, TA, Abuja, Nigeria #127279 (Not for Nigerian Nationals)

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.
Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, in all places, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means hand over.

For each baby, sustenance

In Nigeria, UNICEF works in a fancy humanitarian and improvement setting to satisfy and defend youngsters’s rights in partnership with the federal government, civil society, youngsters, and households. UNICEF Nigeria is among the largest UNICEF Nation Places of work globally – click on the hyperlink to study extra about UNICEF in Nigeria: https://www.unicef.org/nigeria/.

Organizational Context and Function for the job.

UNICEF’s basic mission is to advertise each kid’s rights, leaving nobody behind. In Nigeria, the vitamin scenario of kids below 5 has recorded minimal change, and at the moment, Nigeria is off monitor to reaching the World Well being Meeting 2025 and the Sustainable Improvement Targets 2030. Roughly one in three youngsters below 5 in Nigeria is stunted, whereas one in every of each ten youngsters is wasted. Consequently, Nigeria has the world’s second-highest variety of malnourished youngsters and the very best in Africa.
Nigeria has the second-highest variety of malnourished youngsters on the earth and the very best in Africa. Malnutrition, in all its kinds, is a violation of a youngsters’s proper to sufficient vitamin. To alter the narrative, UNICEF in partnership with the federal government and different stakeholders goals to ship good high quality prevention and therapy providers at scale to construct resilience and defend essentially the most susceptible, notably throughout the First 1000 Days of Life. The main focus, consistent with UNICEF Nigeria’s new Nation Programme Technique (2023-2027), is to (i) strengthen the enabling surroundings, together with knowledge, to tell coverage and programming; (ii) strengthen techniques, particularly the well being, and meals and social safety system to ship high-quality providers; and (iii) deal with social and behavioral practices that affect diets and practices.

How are you going to make a distinction?

To allow UNICEF to handle social and behavioral practices that affect diets and practices within the first 1,000 days of life, UNICEF Nigeria is searching for a Diet Supervisor (P4, Non permanent Task) to be based mostly in Abuja, Nigeria. Particularly, the Diet Supervisor will likely be chargeable for the next:

• Develop evidence-informed, gender-sensitive, human-centered technique to create a ‘new regular’ for diets and practices in Nigeria, notably within the First 1000 Days of life.
• Have interaction with stakeholders (inner and exterior) to execute a harmonized technique at scale on the nationwide and sub-national ranges utilizing a wide range of platforms and channels to achieve audiences
• Guarantee the supply of high-quality knowledge (qualitative and quantitative) to tell the technique, allow course correction and report progress towards outcomes
• Mobilize assets (each home and worldwide) to execute the technique by creating high-quality idea notes and proposals.
• Be accountable for the documentation of outcomes by reviews, shows, publications, and so on.

Key obligations:

1. Programme improvement and planning

•  Evaluate and refine the evaluation of the lately concluded formative analysis on the First 1000 Days to tell the event of a multi-channel, state of artwork, gender-sensitive, built-in, human-centered conduct change technique at scale.
•  Have interaction with stakeholders (inner and exterior) to assist the federal government to develop and validate a Nationwide Social Habits Change Technique for Diet. Help UNICEF Discipline Places of work to adapt the nationwide technique to state-specific methods and plans.
• Aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Cooperation Framework 2022-2026 (UNSDCF), regional methods, in addition to nationwide priorities, plans, and competencies, formulate, design, and put together high-quality idea notes and proposals to mobilize assets and doc outcomes for influence.

2. Programme administration, monitoring, and supply of outcomes

•  Present administration oversight to Output 3 on Diets and Practices and guarantee plans are developed and executed in accordance with UNICEF’s Nation Programme Technique and Partnership Framework with the Authorities of Nigeria.
•  Set up priorities and efficiency measurements for the Output on Diets and Practices, notably throughout the First 1000 days in each improvement and humanitarian contexts.
• Develop milestones to trace the execution and efficiency of the technique, allow mid-course corrections, and obtain outcomes.
• Plan, monitor and allow optimum and acceptable use of assets (monetary, human, administrative, and different) guaranteeing compliance with organizational guidelines, rules, procedures, donor commitments, and requirements of accountability.

3. Advisory providers and technical assist

• Have interaction with inner and exterior stakeholders on the event and execution of state-of-the-art, gender-sensitive, human-centered methods to create a brand new regular for diets and practices and supply technical assist as acceptable.
• Present thought management to translate findings of the lately concluded formative analysis on key baby survival and vitamin practices within the First 1,000 Days of Life to an implementation technique in each improvement and humanitarian contexts.
• Function the gender focus for the part and construct the capability of the part on gender transformative methods.

4. Advocacy, networking, and partnership constructing.

•  Construct and strengthen strategic partnerships with inner and exterior stakeholders by lively networking, advocacy, and efficient communication.
• Take part in strategic Programme discussions, contribute to coverage discussions and agendas, particularly within the areas of gender, emergency preparedness and maternal, new child, and baby well being and vitamin.
•  Construct capability, alternate information and experience, and/or promote cooperation and alliances to attain Programme objectives on maternal and baby rights in addition to social justice and fairness.

5. Innovation, information administration and capability constructing

•  Promote important pondering and progressive approaches for sustainable social and behavioral practices that affect diets and practices.
• Preserve abreast of analysis and implement state of artwork practices in social and behavioral science that affect diets and practices. Institutionalize and share finest practices and information discovered.
• Set up, plan and/or implement capacity-building initiatives to reinforce inner and exterior competencies in state of artwork social and behavioral practices that affect diets and practices.
• Put together coverage papers, reviews, briefs and different strategic paperwork for administration use, donor and authorities reporting, social media and/or publication.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have.

Schooling:
A minimal of Grasp’s in Diet, Social Science, Anthropology, Sociology, and so on.

Expertise:
• Not less than ten years of progressively accountable skilled work expertise on the nationwide or worldwide stage on gender-transformative, human-centered, vitamin diets and practices within the First 1,000 Days of Life.
• Confirmed expertise in main multi-stakeholder engagement with Authorities and companions
• Understanding each improvement and humanitarian contexts is a bonus.
• Expertise engaged on advertising and marketing methods is a bonus.
• Expertise in well being/vitamin Programme/ venture improvement and administration in a UN system company or group is an asset.

Language Necessities:
Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language or an area language is an asset.

For each Youngster, you exhibit…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, and Accountability (CRITA).
• The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…
o Builds and maintains partnerships (II)
o Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (II)
o Drive to attain outcomes (II)
o Innovates and embraces change (II)
o Manages ambiguity and complexity (II)
o Thinks and acts strategically (II)
o Works collaboratively with others (II)
o Nurtures, Leads and Manages Folks (II)

To view our competency framework, please go to right here.

UNICEF is dedicated to variety and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, spiritual and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to use to turn into part of the group.
We provide a variety of advantages to our workers, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF additionally strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict baby safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can due to this fact bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply extra data to conduct a background test.

Remarks:
UNICEF’s lively dedication to variety and inclusion is important to delivering the perfect outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates are inspired to use.
Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.
Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which will likely be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities workers which might be thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance will not be obtained, or mandatory inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.