Nutrition Officer

The Nutrition Officer will support UNICEF Malawi's mission to improve the lives of children, adolescents, and women by shaping and delivering high-impact nutrition programmes. The role involves supporting maternal, infant, young child and adolescent nutrition services, humanitarian preparedness and response, and strengthening systems for early detection and treatment of wasting.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of quality maternal, infant, young child and adolescent nutrition (MIYCAN) services across communities and health facilities.
• Support humanitarian preparedness and response and strengthen systems for early detection and treatment of wasting.
• Work closely with government and partners to contribute to integrated, multisectoral solutions addressing root causes of malnutrition.
• Provide technical assistance and support programme planning, implementation, and monitoring of nutrition interventions.
• Support systems strengthening, evidence-based approaches, and scalable solutions.
• Support efficient utilization of resources to deliver high-quality nutrition services.
• Monitor, analyze, and report to generate evidence that drives better decisions, strengthens accountability, and delivers measurable results.

Requirements

• Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in Public Health, nutrition, public health, epidemiology, global health, health policy, health management, health sciences, health research, or another related field.
• At least 2 years of relevant work experience in public health, nutrition planning, nutrition management, maternal health, child health, child nutrition, adolescent nutrition, effective collaboration with other partners to accelerate achievement of nutrition results for women, adolescents and children, supply chain management including forecasting of Vitamin A, MMS and RUTF and end user monitoring, resource mobilization and grant management, particularly with EU.
• Advocacy and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Knowledge of MIYCAN.
• Experience in CMAM.
• Experience in nutrition system strengthening.
• Experience in nutrition responses in emergencies.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is desirable.
• Experience providing technical assistance to strengthen nutrition programmes at national or field level in development, Fragile or humanitarian settings is desirable.
• Experience supporting emergency preparedness, Rapid needs assessments and humanitarian response coordination is desirable.
• Experience contributing to resource mobilization and grant management, and working effectively with UN agencies, NGOs, government counterparts and international development partners is desirable.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts is desirable.

Skills

• Public Health
• Nutrition Planning
• Nutrition Management
• Maternal Health Care
• Child Health
• Child Nutrition
• Adolescent Nutrition
• Collaboration with International Partners
• Supply Chain Management
• Forecasting Vitamin A
• Forecasting MMS
• Forecasting RUTF
• End User Monitoring
• Resource Mobilization
• Grant Management
• Advocacy
• Stakeholder Coordination
• MIYCAN Knowledge
• CMAM Experience
• Nutrition Systems Strengthening
• Nutrition Emergency Programming
• Technical Assistance
• Emergency Preparedness
• Rapid Needs Assessment
• Humanitarian Emergency Response Coordination

Languages

English