[Hiring] Consultant to Strengthen UNICEF Food Environment Policy Advocacy @AGORA

Role Description

UNICEF is seeking an individual consultant to provide specialist, time-bound support to strengthen its global, regional and country-level work on preventing overweight and obesity among children and adolescents.

• Globally, one in five children and adolescents aged 5–19 years—391 million—are living with overweight, including 188 million living with obesity.
• While undernutrition remains a significant concern in most low- and middle-income countries, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing among school-age children and adolescents.
• The assignment will strengthen and update UNICEF’s overweight programming guidance, technical resources and strategic positioning.
• This includes developing an evidence-informed position on the clinical management of obesity in children and adolescents.
• The consultant will support selected Country Offices to apply UNICEF advocacy, technical, and conflict-of-interest resources to priority food-environment policy processes.
• Provide responsive technical assistance to country and regional teams.
• Synthesize implementation lessons for wider learning.
• Help identify priority evidence, implementation and guidance gaps.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Human Nutrition, Public Health Nutrition.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible professional experience in food systems, food environment policy, nutrition policy, public health policy, governance, advocacy, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the development, implementation or evaluation of food-environment policies.
• Experience conducting stakeholder analysis, political economy analysis, governance assessments and/or conflict-of-interest assessments related to public policy processes.
• Experience synthesizing evidence and translating technical information into practical guidance, policy recommendations and advocacy products.
• Experience working with UN agencies, international organizations, governments or development partners.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required; knowledge of another UN language is desirable.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of food-environment policies and overweight and obesity prevention.
• Strong analytical, research and writing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop practical tools, frameworks and guidance resources for non-technical users.
• Excellent facilitation, consultation and stakeholder-engagement skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into user-friendly products and recommendations.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.

Benefits

• UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere.
• UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities.
• Reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities throughout the recruitment process.