Nutricionista

Provide specialized technical and programmatic support to counterparts and internal teams for planning, managing, implementing, monitoring, and advocacy of nutrition interventions, ensuring technical quality, institutional coordination, results focus, compliance with WFP standards, and alignment with national and territorial priorities.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, planning and technical management of WFP nutrition interventions ensuring alignment with institutional and national priorities, integration of technical, operational and monitoring components, and results orientation.
• Provide technical assistance and support to nutrition projects or intervention lines (school feeding, food fortification, maternal and child nutrition) and their mainstreaming in emergencies, resilience and climate change, among other programmatic lines.
• Conduct context analysis, needs identification and evidence review to support design and prioritization of nutrition interventions.
• Ensure implementation of nutrition activities and their mainstreaming in WFP programs in coordination with public institutions, implementing partners and territorial teams.
• Contribute to WFP's technical positioning and strengthening of policies, programs and strategic alliances in nutrition through advocacy, evidence generation and inter-institutional coordination.
• Facilitate coordination with government entities, international cooperation, academia, civil society and other relevant actors.
• Identify opportunities for institutionalization, sustainability and scaling up of interventions.
• Contribute to monitoring, evaluation, systematization and learning of nutrition interventions providing timely information for decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Support preparation of technical reports, knowledge products and documentation of good practices.
• Perform other related duties as required by supervision according to WFP Bolivia needs and scope of competencies.

Requirements

• Professional degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Food Engineering or related fields.
• Desirable postgraduate or specialization studies in public health, community nutrition, social program management, food security, public policies.
• 5 years of professional experience in nutrition programs or projects, public health, food security, social protection or development.
• Specific experience in planning, managing, implementing, monitoring or evaluating nutrition interventions.
• Desirable experience working with public management.
• Experience in advocacy, inter-institutional coordination, capacity strengthening, and working with vulnerable populations.
• Knowledge in nutrition and food security, public health, design and implementation of interventions, data analysis.
• Knowledge of the national regulatory framework for nutrition and public health in Bolivia.
• Knowledge of gender and intercultural approaches.
• Proficiency in computer and data analysis tools.
• Excellent oral and written Spanish required.
• Intermediate level of English desirable.

Skills

• Nutrition Programme Management
• Public Health Nutrition
• Food Security
• Nutrition Intervention Planning
• Nutrition Monitoring
• Nutrition Intervention Evaluation
• Public Policy Implementation
• Social Program Management
• Advocacy
• Institutional Coordination
• Capacity Strengthening
• Vulnerable Populations Support
• Nutrition Analysis
• National Nutrition Regulatory Framework
• Gender Approach
• Intercultural Approach
• Computer Proficiency
• Data Analysis

Languages

Spanish, English