Nutrition (Sensitive) Programme and Policy Officer

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14 August :59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)

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• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

JOB TITLE: Nutrition (Sensitive) Programme and Policy Officer

TYPE OF CONTRACT: International consultant

UNIT/DIVISION: Nutrition, School Meals, and Social Protection (PRGS), Programme Division

DUTY STATION: Rome, Italy (HQ)

DURATION: 4 months (09 Sept - 31 December 2026)

BACKGROUND:
In 2024, WFP released a Nutrition Strategy committing to providing immediate nutrition assistance in emergencies while also addressing the root causes of malnutrition enabling communities to access nutritious foods for health, productivity, and resilience. This strategy reinforces WFP’s vital role in tackling malnutrition and improving diets, particularly for at-risk populations.

The strategy emphasizes increased government investments in nutrition-sensitive social protection, food, and health systems as integral to sustained dietary improvements and malnutrition reduction.
It also highlights the importance of leveraging WFP programmatic expertise and partnerships to scale up proven approaches for increasing healthy food availability.

The WFP Strategic Plan reaffirms WFP’s commitment to integrating nutrition across its 3 strategic objectives, explicitly positioning nutrition as a core component of emergency response and a critical enabler for resilience building, human capacity development and national and local systems strengthening.

In line with the WFP Strategy and to support the implementation of the WFP Nutrition Strategy, Nutrition and Food Quality Service needs to develop innovative corporate initiatives, tools and guidance to ensure that WFP staff and stakeholders recognise the importance of and are empowered to design implement and monitor the integration of nutrition and HIV/TB across its operations. In addition, there is a need for building the capacity of countries to find long‑term solutions and contribute to the broader policy dialogue and support national systems.

OBJECTIVE:

Support the Nutrition and Food Quality Service to enhance country capacity to adequately integrate nutrition across systems and programmes, with a specific focus on household food assistance, social protection as well as school-based programming ensuring that no one is left behind.

ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under these terms of reference, the consultant will assist in the implementation of the work carried out in the Nutrition and Food Quality service as follows:

Under the Nutrition Sensitive social protection workstream

• Lead coordination with PPG-S (SBP and SP teams) to develop joint advocacy materials and technical tools, including the roll out of the nutrition-sensitive business case for NSSP, and training materials on NSSP.
• Coordinate with PPG-S and th