Nutrition and Food Systems Officer

Job Posting: 26/Aug/2025

Closure Date: 16/Sep/2025, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: ESN

Job Type: Staff position

Type of Requisition: Professional

Grade Level: P-3

Primary Location: Italy-Rome

Duration: Fixed-term: two years with possibility of extension

Post Number: 0065005

CCOG Code: 1I02

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- **FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background and culture**:

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, for _better production_, _better nutrition_, _a better environment,_ and _a better life_, leaving no one behind.

**Organizational Setting**

FAO's Food and Nutrition Division (ESN) provides technical expertise and normative guidance to support Members' actions to improve access to and consumption of healthy diets to raise levels of nutrition. Priorities include the generation and consolidation of data and evidence for decision-making, the development and mobilization of up-to-date guidance and guidelines across a variety of relevant topics, and the integration of nutrition into agrifood systems policies and actions from production, through value chain and market initiatives to consumers.

This position is located in the Food and Nutrition Division, at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.

**Reporting Lines**

The Nutrition and Food Systems Officer (Healthy Diet Metrics and Analytics) reports to the Senior Nutrition and Systems Officer, ESN, and works in close collaboration with colleagues in the Statistics Division (ESS) under the overall guidance of the Director, ESN.

**Technical Focus**

The aim of ESN's work on healthy diet metrics and analytics is to enable Members and interested organizations to generate and use healthy diet metrics for decision-making, monitoring and evaluating policy and programmatic actions aimed at increasing access to and consumption of healthy diets, and for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) reporting, being ESN custodian of the minimum dietary diversity for women (MDD-W), SDG2 indicator. The technical expertise of this role provides analytical support including data compilation, analysis and reporting, as well as advancing the development, validation and utilization of healthy diet metrics and related guidance, in collaboration with other UN Agencies and partners. The incumbent will also support integrating diet quality metrics into FAO data platforms and flagship reports to facilitate wide dissemination and use of such information in policy and programme decisions.

**Key Results**

Research and analysis of information, data and statistics, and the maintenance and updating of related tools, methodologies, and/or databases to support the delivery of programme products, projects, publications, and services.

**Key Functions**- Researches and analyses [agricultural, economic, trade, market, social, environmental, nutrition/food composition and/or gender related] data, statistics and information to provide technical, statistical and/or policy related information and analysis to support the delivery of economic and social development programmes work, products, projects, publications and services.- Produces a variety of technical reports and input for technical documents, divisional publications and/or web pages.- Provides technical, statistical, and/or analytical services on various studies, projects, and/or assessments and provides technical backstopping to field projects.- Participates in the development of improved/updated technical, statistical and/or analytical tools, methodologies, systems, databases, and/or key social/ economic/ environmental/ nutritional and/or early warning indicators, etc.- Participates in multidisciplinary teams, collaborates with other Divisions, Offices and Centres and agencies on work groups and committees and promotes best practices.- Collaborates in capacity development activities involving the planning and organizing of training workshops, seminars, and majo