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JOB TITLE: Advisor on Nutrition Integration for Healthy Diets TYPE OF CONTRACT: International consultant CST II UNIT/DIVISION: Nutrition, School Meals, and Social Protection Service (PRGS) DUTY STATION: Rome, Italy (HQ) DURATION: 11 months (January – December 2027) BACKGROUND:

The WFP Strategic Plan 2025-2029 reaffirms WFP’s priority 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.

The WFP Nutrition Strategy sets out its commitment 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 access and affordability of healthy diets.

To advance nutrition integration, the Nutrition, School Meals and Social Protection Service aims to develop innovative corporate initiatives, tools and guidance that enable WFP staff and national stakeholders to design, implement and monitor the integration of nutrition—and, where relevant, HIV and TB considerations—across policies, programmes and operations.

OBJECTIVE:

Support the Nutrition, School Meals and Social Protection Service in ensuring the coherent integration of nutrition across systems and programmes implemented by Country Offices. Foster cross-functional collaboration across WFP, particularly with Supply Chain, Procurement, Analysis, Planning and Performance, and Emergency Preparedness and Response divisions, as well as across workstreams within the service.

ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

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

1. Strengthen uptake of data, analysis and evidence into programme and policies that promote improved nutrition outcomes:

• Enable COs in working with national governments on evidence-based programme and policy design in support of nutrition outcomes (through linking FNG, MIMI and Enhance)

• Advise and support WFP programme teams at global and regional level on nutrition to ensure nutrition standards are considered and incorporated.

• Support the integration of Nutrition in corporate processes and systems to improve integration of nutrition in programme planning, delivery and monitoring across the programme spectrum

• Support formulation and review of Country Strategic Plans and Budget revisions to mainstream nutrition and HIV across relevant programmes

2. Improve Nutrition adequacy (NA)of WFP assistance

• Support the coordination of the technical working group on nutritional adequacy

• Enable the identification of bottlenecks and actions to improve corporate processes and systems to improve systematically nutritional adequacy of WFP programs

• Contribute to development of evidence, best practices and capacity strengthening of CO on NA of WFP programming such as GFA, School Based Programming and cash programming

3. Provide technical advice and support to WFP COs in integrating nutrition in programme design, implementation and monitoring

• Enable Country Offices to integrate Nutrition by providing guidance, country missions, and linking cross-functional working areas including analytics based on experiences to date

• Lead evidence generation and lessons learned initiatives around nutrition and HIV integration, including social protection and school-based programme

• Support advocacy and partnership team in Social Protection and School meals on the engagement with national government and IFIs on nutrition-sensitive social protection

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

• Evidence, tools and best practices developed and documented on Nutrition Adequacy of WFP programming

• Cross functional workplan advanced in addressing barriers to nutritional adequacy of household assistance

• Standards and Guidance on Nutrition Integration are understood and applied.

• Guidance, and lessons learnt briefs in support of nutrition integration at CO level programmes and CSPs

• Policy and technical briefs on nutrition-sensitive social protection in support of partnership, policy and advocacy engagement.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education: Master’s degree in nutrition, public health, or any other relevant field

Experience:

• Extensive experience with integration of nutrition and HIV into policies and programs at global level and country level or in support of countries

• 10-year experience with UN agencies or/and NGOs; experience with WFP is an asset

• Exposure to multiple country contexts including emergencies

Knowledge and Skills:

• Good understanding of interagency platforms in nutrition, food security, social protection and HIV at global level

• Knowledge and ability to interpret literature and analysis of nutrition and HIV operations, including in emergency settings.

• Strong interpersonal skills: ability to liaise with a wide range of people at different levels and across different cultures and to act with credibility and diplomacy.

• Self-motivated and able to work with a high degree of autonomy, strong time management skills.

• Ability to influence and to manage and coordinate efforts from multiple stakeholders for common and purpose.

Languages: Strong writing skills and verbal fluency in English, a second language desirable.

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