[Hiring] National Nutrition Consultant @AGORA

Role Description

Nutrition is a multi-sectoral issue, and inter-sectoral action is critical to addressing nutritional problems. Sindh province has made progress by implementing a multi-sectoral program ‘Accelerated Action Plan for stunting reduction’ through multi-sectoral platform by engaging eight sectors. AAP is coordinating with all stakeholders.

The AAP Taskforce Secretariat plays a central role in promoting inclusive, effective, and participatory governance across nutrition and multisectoral programming. However, the existing structure of the Secretariat does not have dedicated technical human resource capacity to effectively support in the implementation of AAP taskforce secretariat portfolio within nutrition governance mechanisms/coordination.

UNICEF is supporting AAP Secretariat for multi-sectoral coordination at provincial and divisional level and interventions with focus on:

• Maternal and child nutrition
• Early Childhood Development (ECD)
• Adolescents’ nutrition
• School health and nutrition
• PF4N

To achieve the objectives, under the overall guidance of Nutrition Specialist and Program Coordinator AAP (Accelerated Action Plan) for Stunting Reduction Secretariat, the consultant will provide technical support to AAP Secretariat to guide, implement, monitor and support multisectoral nutrition activities as planned in:

• Multiyear Work plan (MYWP)-2025 to 2026
• ECD nurturing framework
• Health, Food, Education, WASH and Social Protection systems

These interventions mainly fall under output 1 (Governance, Functional Multisectoral Coordination and Stronger Systems for Child Nutrition and Development) of the CPD-2023-27/ MYWP 2025-2026.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's or master's degree in one of the following fields is required: Public Health, Nutrition, Health Science, Epidemiology, Child Development, or relevant science fields.
• Masters: 2 years of experience; Bachelors: 5 years of experience.
• Language Requirements: English, Urdu, Sindhi and other regional languages.
• A minimum of two years of professional experience in a developing country in one or more of the following areas is required: Nutrition, Child Development, Public Health, Nutrition & Child Development Planning, and Management.

Requirements

• Experience in nutrition/public health programme/early child development project development and management in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.

Benefits

• UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it.
• UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does.
• UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence.