Chief Nutrition

The Chief Nutrition leads and manages the nutrition programme in Kenya, overseeing strategic planning, programme delivery, and results management. The role involves managerial leadership, collaboration with health and WASH sections, and ensuring sustainable nutrition outcomes for maternal, infant, and child health.

Responsibilities

• Provide managerial leadership for the nutrition programme, including supervision and guidance of the Nutrition team.
• Lead programme development and strategic planning for nutrition interventions.
• Manage programme implementation, monitoring, and quality control to ensure results are achieved.
• Provide advisory services and technical support related to nutrition.
• Engage in advocacy, networking, and partnership building to support nutrition goals.
• Promote innovation, knowledge management, and capacity building within the nutrition programme.

Requirements

• Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in Nutrition, Public Health, Nutritional Epidemiology, Global/International Health and Nutrition, Health/Nutrition Research, Policy and/or Management, Health Sciences, Nutritional Epidemiology or another health-related science field.
• At least 10 years of relevant work experience in Nutrition, Public Health, Nutrition Policy, Health Systems, Food Systems, Humanitarian Nutrition and any other related fields.
• Proven experience in managerial leadership, advocacy, partnership building and strategic thinking.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is desirable.
• Experience in health/nutrition programme/project development and management in a UN system agency or organization is desirable.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts is desirable.

Skills

• Nutrition
• Public Health
• Nutritional Epidemiology
• Global Health
• Health Sciences
• Nutrition Policy
• Health Systems
• Food Systems
• Humanitarian Nutrition
• Program Development
• Programme Management
• Managerial Leadership
• Advocacy
• Partnership Building
• Strategic Planning
• Results Management
• Maternal and Child Health
• Health and WASH Collaboration

Languages

English