Nutrition Analyst Level I

The Nutrition Analyst Level I will support WFP's Systems Analysis for Nutrition team by strengthening government capacity to undertake nutrition analyses such as Fill the Nutrient Gap and Sustainable Healthy Diet assessments. The role involves data analysis, training, and supporting the development and institutionalisation of WFP's nutrition analytical tools including the Enhance platform to inform evidence-based nutrition programme and policy design.

Responsibilities

• Assessment of market-based nutrition interventions and local food solutions.
• Review of data related to household food expenditure, dietary intake, market functionality, food prices, locally produced complementary foods, Specially Formulated Foods and other local food solutions.
• Analysis of the feasibility of meeting nutrition need of moderate acute malnourished children and children at risk of malnutrition.
• Assessment of the nutritional adequacy of cash-based transfer for nutrition, local food solutions and recipes.
• Strengthen capacity and application of Enhance analysis.
• Contribute to the development and tailoring of training on cost and affordability analysis and intervention modelling using Enhance.
• Support training of WFP Country Offices and government counterparts on cost and affordability analysis and intervention modelling using Enhance.
• Support trainings of enumerators for primary data collection of food prices.
• Support WFP Country Offices and government counterparts to set up cost and affordability monitoring to inform early warning and anticipatory action systems and adaptation to programme response.
• Support documentation and development of guidance as needed.
• Support secondary data reviews and synthesis on nutrition, dietary intake, food security, food prices, household income and expenditure, and socio‑economic indicators to inform WFP programme design, Fill the Nutrient Gap (FNG), and Sustainable Healthy Diet analyses.
• Provide technical support to WFP Country Offices and national stakeholders on cost and affordability analyses, ensuring alignment with WFP priorities, FNG objectives, and sustainable healthy diets frameworks.
• Support the identification, assessment, and modelling of intervention options across strategies, delivery modalities, and transfer values, informed by WFP analytical tools and evidence.
• Contribute to the preparation and facilitation of country‑level FNG and Sustainable Healthy Diet processes, including inception, validation, and dissemination of findings.
• Support the development of decision‑support and advocacy products, including key messages, slides, briefs, and reports, translating analytical findings into actionable programme and policy recommendations.
• Prepare topic briefs and ad hoc nutrition analytics in response to internal WFP needs and external stakeholder requests.

Requirements

• Graduate level (Masters or above) in Public Health (Epidemiology or biostatistics), Nutrition, Economics (or Econometrics), Sustainable food systems, Agronomy, Statistics or other socio-economic disciplines with a strong quantitative data analysis component.
• Between 3-5 years of relevant professional experience, including research and data analysis.
• Experience with dietary assessment, linear programming-based such as Cost of the Diet, Opti-food or other Nutrition Modelling tools, GIS and/or mapping software.
• Previous experience of working in low-middle income countries, experience in fragile contexts considered an asset.
• Proficient in conducting quantitative and qualitative data analysis based on secondary data required.
• Ability to use statistical software packages such as R, STATA or others.
• Solid knowledge of nutrition and food systems required.
• Knowledge of different types of programmes such as social protection, health, school feeding, livelihoods and resilience and emergency programmes is considered an asset.
• Good interpersonal skills and understanding of multicultural settings, including of different stakeholders (government, NGOs, academia, others).
• Flexibility in thinking, ability to adapt to different situations quickly and with ease.
• Capacity building and facilitation skills appreciated.
• Ability to work independently in a timely and organised manner and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills required.
• Professional level of written and spoken English, and aptitude to writing different types of communications.
• Professional knowledge of a second UN language an asset, preferably French, Spanish or Arabic.

Skills

• Quantitative Analysis
• Dietary Assessments
• Linear Programming Analysis
• Cost of the Diet
• Opti-food
• Nutrition Modelling
• GIS Mapping
• Statistical Software Stata
• STATA
• Nutrition Program Knowledge
• Food Systems Knowledge
• Secondary Data Analysis
• Research
• Capacity Building
• Training Facilitation
• Nutrition Analysis
• Evidence-Based Policy Design
• Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration
• Written Communication

Languages

English