Vacancy Announcement: Nutrition Manager, P4, FT, Abuja, Nigeria #123439

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, in all places, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each youngster, sustenance

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

Organizational Context and Goal for the job

UNICEF’s elementary mission is to advertise each kid’s proper, leaving nobody behind. In Nigeria, the vitamin scenario of youngsters beneath 5 has recorded minimal change, and at present, Nigeria is off observe to attaining the World Well being Meeting 2025 and the Sustainable Growth Objectives 2030. Roughly one in three kids beneath 5 in Nigeria is stunted, whereas one in every of each ten kids is wasted. Consequently, Nigeria has the world’s second-highest variety of malnourished kids and the very best in Africa.

Nigeria has the second-highest variety of malnourished kids on the earth and the very best in Africa. Malnutrition, in all its kinds, is a violation of a kids’s proper to sufficient vitamin.  To vary the narrative, UNICEF in partnership with the federal government and different stakeholders goals to ship good high quality prevention and therapy companies at scale to construct resilience and defend probably the most weak, significantly in the course of the First 1000 Days of Life. The main target, in step with UNICEF Nigeria’s new Nation Programme Technique (2023-2027), is to (i) strengthen the enabling surroundings, together with information, to tell coverage and programming; (ii) strengthen techniques, particularly the well being, and meals and social safety system to ship high-quality companies; 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 deal with social and behavioral practices that affect diets and practices within the first 1,000 days of life, UNICEF Nigeria is in search of a Diet Supervisor to be based mostly in Abuja, Nigeria. Particularly, the Diet Supervisor will likely be accountable for the next:

• Develop evidence-informed, gender-sensitive, human-centered technique to create a ‘new regular’ for diets and practices in Nigeria, significantly within the First 1000 Days of life.
• Have interaction with stakeholders (inside and exterior) to execute a harmonized technique at scale on the nationwide and sub-national ranges utilizing quite a lot of platforms and channels to succeed in audiences.
• Guarantee the provision of high-quality information (qualitative and quantitative) to tell the technique, allow course correction and report progress towards outcomes.
• Mobilize sources (each home and worldwide) to execute the technique by growing high-quality idea notes and proposals.
• Be accountable for the documentation of outcomes by stories, displays, publications, and so on.

Key tasks:

1. Programme growth and planning.

• Assessment and refine the evaluation of the not too long ago 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 (inside and exterior) to help the federal government to develop and validate a Nationwide Social Habits Change Technique for Diet. Help UNICEF Area Workplaces to adapt the nationwide technique to state-specific methods and plans.

• Aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Growth 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 sources and doc outcomes for impression.

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, significantly in the course of the First 1000 days in each growth 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 sources (monetary, human, administrative, and different) making certain compliance with organizational guidelines, rules, procedures, donor commitments, and requirements of accountability.

3. Advisory companies and technical help

• Have interaction with inside and exterior stakeholders on the event and execution of state of artwork, gender-sensitive, human-centered methods to create a brand new regular for diets and practices and supply technical help as acceptable.
• Present thought management to translate findings of the not too long ago concluded formative analysis on key youngster survival and vitamin practices within the First 1,000 Days of Life to an implementation technique in each growth and humanitarian contexts
• Function the gender point of interest 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 inside and exterior stakeholders by energetic 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 youngster well being and vitamin.
• Construct capability, trade data and experience, and/or promote cooperation and alliances to attain Programme objectives on maternal and youngster rights in addition to social justice and fairness.

5. Innovation, data administration and capability constructing

• Promote vital pondering and revolutionary approaches for sustainable social and behavioral practices that affect diets and practices
• Maintain 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 data realized.
• Arrange, plan and/or implement capability constructing initiatives to boost inside and exterior competencies in state of artwork social and behavioral practices that affect diets and practices.
• Put together coverage papers, stories, briefs and different strategic paperwork for administration use, donor and authorities reporting, social media and/or publication.

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have…

Training:

A complicated college diploma in one of many following fields is required:  vitamin, public well being, dietary epidemiology, international/worldwide well being and vitamin, well being/vitamin analysis, coverage and/or administration, well being sciences, dietary epidemiology, or one other health-related science area.

Expertise:

• A minimal of eight years {of professional} expertise in a growing nation in a number of of the next areas is required: vitamin, public well being, vitamin planning and administration, or maternal, toddler and youngster well being/vitamin care.
• Progressively accountable skilled work expertise on the nationwide or worldwide degree 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 growth and humanitarian contexts is a bonus.
• Expertise engaged on advertising methods is a bonus.
• Expertise in well being/vitamin Programme/ challenge growth 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 Little one, you reveal…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, and Accountability (CRITA). 

• The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…
• Builds and maintains partnerships (II)
• Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (II)
• Drive to attain outcomes (II)
• Innovates and embraces change (II)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (II)
• Thinks and acts strategically (II)
• Works collaboratively with others (II)
• Nurtures, Leads and Manages Folks (II)

To view our competency framework, please go to here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, spiritual and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to use to turn out to be part of the group.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF additionally strongly encourages using 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 youngster safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background test.

Remarks:

UNICEF’s energetic dedication to variety and inclusion is vital 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 obligation 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 staff which can be thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the best to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance will not be obtained, or vital inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.