[Hiring] Consultant – Nutrition Formulation for MAM Treatment Blend @International Rescue Committee

Role Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Consultant for Nutrition Formulation for MAM Treatment Blend. This consultancy focuses on the nutrition formulation side of the work, with explicit goals to:

• Define the target nutritional profile and formulation guardrails for reformulated Tom Brown.
• Develop 3–4 candidate reformulations using locally viable ingredients.
• Assess each option’s nutritional strengths, gaps, risks, and trade-offs against treatment requirements.
• Advise on fortification, premix, bioavailability, nutrient stability, and ingredient interactions.
• Identify preparation, sensory, acceptability, and caregiver-use risks that should be tested before pilot production.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with RUSF, fortified blended foods, supplementary feeding products, or similar nutrition products.
• Humanitarian, public-sector nutrition, Nigeria, or comparable-context experience - preferably in Borno State.
• Experience designing simple, scalable formulations for young children or nutritionally vulnerable populations.
• Ability to define nutrition targets and translate them into practical formulations.
• Familiarity with premix, fortification, bioavailability, and nutrient stability.
• Ability to balance nutritional adequacy with cost, manufacturability, ingredient availability, and caregiver preparation realities.

Requirements

• Lead development of nutritionally credible Tom Brown reformulation options, grounded in treatment requirements and aligned with industrial feasibility constraints.
• Define nutrition targets and guardrails, including a clear nutrition target matrix for reformulated Tom Brown.
• Set practical formulation principles, including simplicity, local ingredient availability, digestibility, cost sensitivity, and caregiver preparation burden.
• Develop 3–4 candidate reformulations, each including ingredient composition, estimated nutritional profile, preparation method, rationale, and key trade-offs.
• Work closely with the Industrial Feasibility Consultant to adapt formulations based on local production realities.
• Define practical sensory and usability criteria, including taste, aroma, texture, mouthfeel, cooking time, water ratio, thickness, and caregiver ease of use.

Benefits

• Activity-based payment rate linked to delivery of defined outputs, within an overall budget.

Company Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities.