Nutrition Sensitive Junior Consultant

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

1 October 2024-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)

ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

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WHY JOIN WFP?- WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.- WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.- WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.- A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.- We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

BACKGROUND:
With the Strategic Plan (2022-2025), the World Food Programme reaffirms its commitment to integrate nutrition across all its operations. Nutrition is in fact explicitly part of emergency response (Strategic Outcome 1) and identified as a critical input to human capacity development (Strategic Outcome 2), as well as envisioned under livelihood (Strategic Outcome 3) and capacity strengthening (Strategic Outcome 4). The Strategi Plan and its associated Corporate Result Framework go even further and commits to guarantee the nutrition adequacy of its household food assistance and beyond to protect the well-being of populations across the life cycle, breaking the chain of effect from inadequate dietary intake.

WFP aims to effectively integrate nutrition at scale. Achieving this will require integration of nutrition in its programme, while also relying on exploring alternate programmes and platforms that can support in tackling both the underlying and immediate drivers of poor diets and malnutrition. A focus will be on engaging and strengthening linkages with national social protection systems, including school-based platforms, to ensure nutrition being explicitly and deliberately incorporated in the programme design. This includes ensuring the provision of nutrient adequate social assistance, for example through linkages with large-scale food fortification efforts.

In line with the global agenda, there is a need for NUT to develop innovative corporate initiatives,

tools and guidance to ensure that WFP staff and stakeholders increasingly recognise the importance of and are empowered to implement and monitor nutrition sensitive operations.

OBJECTIVE:
Support the Nutrition and Food Quality Service to ensure adequate integration of nutrition, including through the nutritional adequacy of household assistance, across relevant programmes, with a specific focus on social protection, including school-based programmes.

ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under these terms of reference, the consultant will assist in the implementation of the work carried out in the Programme and Policy Support Unit of the Nutrition and Food Quality Service, in particular:
Support to advance the work around nutrition sensitive social protection, including school-based programmes:
- As a result of and on the basis of the learning strategy developed, contribute and support the development of key learning platforms and products, such as community of practice, brownbag series, fact sheet, briefs, PowerPoint presentation to foster learning across regions- Support the development of guidance notes and position papers to help advancing WFP work around nutrition sensitive social protection- Support the testing of the Nutrition Sensitive Shock-Responsive Social Protection capacity assessment tool in two pilot countries- Contribute to the systematization of nutrition sensitive social protection data on programmes supported by WFP during 2024- Contribute to global interagency guidance on nutrition sensitive social protection

Contribute to the workplan of relevant nutrition strategy objectives, including nutrition in emergency, wasting and maternal nutrition and health diets:
- Support the development of a discussion paper on wasting approach outside of contexts of high food insecurity for internal consideration- Conduct a desk review on nutrition triggers for Anticipatory Actions, Climate Risk