The National nutrition consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:
1) Review and provide recommendations for updating the nutrition standards and meal requirements for school meal programs. Results of school meal pilot projects will give current information that can be used to develop recommendations for improving child nutrition regulations, such as healthy dietary requirements for children and guidelines for organizing school meals based on national healthy child nutrition standards, international standards, and nutritionally balanced menus. Recommendations for fostering an environment that supports kids’ healthy nutrition can also be made.
2) Provide methodological support for assessing nutrition in preschool settings, participate in a concept development process to implement the nutrition assessment in preschool settings, participate in the development of assessment instruments, train fieldworkers to collect data, and participate in the data analysis and recommendation-making process.
3) Provide technical assistance to the design, planning, and implementation of awareness-raising campaigns and social and behavior change activities on healthy nutrition for children, including the development and promotion of the national healthy nutrition website for children, parents, authorities, school personnel, and all interested parties.
4) Participate in developing the concept for a study to analyze the factors influencing a woman’s decision to begin breastfeeding soon after birthÑŒ development of methodology and tools for exploring the factors that influence women’s decisions to breastfeed after childbirth and duration of breastfeeding, training field personnel in data collection, and assist with data analysis and recommendations.
5) Provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health and relevant organizations in the implementation of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in all birthing and children’s hospitals, as well as building the capacity of health care professionals to facilitate the safe implementation of evidence-based breastfeeding-related care practices at the hospital level, through home visitors, and in PHC facilities.

Work Assignment Overview Nutrition Consultant 2024.docx

Requirements:

? Education: Nutrition, Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Systems or related field.
? Experience:
– At least five years of relevant experience on nutrition program management including experience at national and subnational levels .
– Familiarity with multidimensional nutrition programming through all life cycles, especially childhood and tools in health/nutrition programs.
– Knowledge of nutrition programme context in Kazakhstan
– Proven experience in planning, supervising health, and nutrition programmes, and training
– Fluency in written and spoken English and Russian languages and ability to write quality reports on nutrition or other related public health fields; knowledge of Kazakh is an advantage.
– Highly developed communication skills.
– Ability to work in an international and multi-cultural environment.
– Ability to work independently and respond to feedback in a timely and professional manner.
– Excellent analytical and organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to contribute to a team.
– Ability to summarise evidence, in writing and in workshops and meetings
– Experience with the UN is an asset
? Competencies:
– Expertise in health and nutrition program area;
– Experience in creating policy documents, strategies, and plans;
– Experience in planning and supervising health and nutrition programmes;
– Experience in developing training modules and materials