Nutrition Officer

**Job no**: 567624

**Contract type**: Temporary Appointment

**Duty Station**: New Delhi

**Level**: NO-2

**Location**: India

**Categories**: Nutrition

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UNICEF is a leading humanitarian and development agency working globally for the rights of every child. Child rights begin with safe shelter, nutrition, protection from disaster and conflict and traverse the life cycle: pre-natal care for healthy births, clean water and sanitation, health care and education. UNICEF has spent nearly 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Working with and for children through adolescence and into adulthood requires a global presence whose goal is to produce results and monitor their effects. UNICEF also lobbies and partners with leaders, thinkers, and policy makers to help all children realize their rights-especially the most disadvantaged.

Investing in the first 1,000 days from conception to a child's second birthday shapes the future of the nation. Ending stunting and other forms of undernutrition saves lives, improves health and prospects for children, and improves overall development progress. This makes the fight against undernutrition a national imperative. UNICEF India promotes a C2IQ approach: coverage, continuity, intensity, and quality towards a high impact programme across India. UNICEF supports the Government's efforts to reduce stunting and wasting among the most vulnerable populations. This is being done by universalizing coverage of proven high-impact interventions around the 1000 days - from conception to two years -for adolescent girls and women. Special focus is on geographic pockets and social groups where the nutrition indicators are significantly below India's and state averages. Improving child feeding practices, especially complementary foods between 6 and 18 months of age, are also critical.

**How can you make a difference?**

The Nutrition Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the nutrition programmes/projects within the Country Programme, from development planning to delivery of results. In doing so, the incumbent implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of results.

**Summary of key functions/accountabilities**:
Under the general guidance of the Nutrition Specialist, the incumbent shall undertake the following:
**A. Support to programme development and planning**
- Conduct and update the situation analysis for the programme sector(s) for the development, design and management of nutrition related programmes/projects. Research and report on development trends (e.g. political social, economic, nutrition, health) for higher management use to enhance programme management, efficiency and delivery of results.
- Contribute to the development and establishment of sectoral programme goals, objectives, strategies, and results-based planning, through analysis of nutrition needs and areas for intervention, and submission of recommendations for priority and goal setting.
- Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of programming processes by executing and administering a variety of technical programme transactions; preparing materials and documentations, and complying with organizational processes and management systems, to support programme planning, results-based planning (RBM), and monitoring and evaluation of results.
- Prepare required documentations and materials to facilitate the programme review and approval process.

**B. Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results.**
- Work closely and collaboratively with colleagues and partners to discuss operational and implementation issues. Provide solutions, recommendations and/or alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or decision-making. Keep record of reports and assessments for easy reference and/or to capture and institutionalize lessons learned.
- Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual reviews with the government and other counterparts to assess programmes/projects and to report on required action and interventions at the higher level of programme management.
- Monitor and report on the use of sectoral programme resources (financial, administrative and other assets), verifying compliance with approved allocation, goals, organizational rules, regulati