Information Management Officer in Nutrition in Emergencies

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24 September 2026-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)

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JOB TITLE: Information Management Officer in Nutrition in Emergencies (NiE)
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Regular Consultant
UNIT/DIVISION: Nutrition & Food Quality Service
DUTY STATION (City, Country): HQ Rome, Italy
DURATION: 09 October 2026 to 08 September 2027

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

The World Food Program (WFP) as the world’s largest humanitarian organisation has a responsibility of fulfilling commitments and expectations in emergency response and recovery in contexts of crisis and disruption. Following the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, WFP also continues to advocate for enhancing the complementarity between humanitarian and development assistance; safeguarding the foundations of humanitarian action; and better serve people in need. WFP Nutrition is committed to support good nutrition before, during and after emergencies, recognizing that the changing nature and frequency of emergencies exacerbate already critical levels of malnutrition.

In a significant number of countries, the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is jeopardized by conflict, natural disasters or health emergencies. Hunger and malnutrition are widespread among crisis-affected populations, disproportionately impacting women and children. Forty-five percent of deaths in children under-five are associated with undernutrition, related to both acute and chronic undernutrition. Equally important, poor nutrition also has longer term consequences related to child growth and development – these latter consequences are largely irreversible. Therefore, nutrition is an essential part of the emergency response. However, given the high number of concurrent and complex emergencies, it remains a global challenge within the nutrition community to implement appropriate, well-coordinated and effective nutrition responses at scale.

WFP continues to improve its ways of working to address nutritional needs in diverse and complex emergency settings. Its primary role for nutrition is to ensure those affected by a crisis receive adequate nutrients, not just adequate food. Given the multiple causes of malnutrition, WFP also advocates for a comprehensive response to the underlying and immediate causes of malnutrition to be achieved in partnership (i.e., optimal caring practices, good health services, proper hygiene and sanitation and household food security).

WFP’s Nutrition and Food Quality Service (PPGN) supports WFP country offices in achieving an appropriate, timely, well-coordinated and effective nutrition response in emergencies at the required scale. In lin