DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
1 October 2024-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)
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ABOUT WFP
The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP’s values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
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WHY JOIN WFP?
With the Strategic Plan (2022-2025), the World Food Programme reaffirms its commitment to integrate nutrition across all its operations. Nutrition is in fact explicitly part of emergency response (Strategic Outcome 1) and identified as a critical input to human capacity development (Strategic Outcome 2), as well as envisioned under livelihood (Strategic Outcome 3) and capacity strengthening (Strategic Outcome 4). The Strategi Plan and its associated Corporate Result Framework go even further and commits to guarantee the nutrition adequacy of its household food assistance and beyond to protect the well-being of populations across the life cycle, breaking the chain of effect from inadequate dietary intake.
WFP aims to effectively integrate nutrition at scale. Achieving this will require integration of nutrition in its programme, while also relying on exploring alternate programmes and platforms that can support in tackling both the underlying and immediate drivers of poor diets and malnutrition. A focus will be on engaging and strengthening linkages with national social protection systems, including school-based platforms, to ensure nutrition being explicitly and deliberately incorporated in the programme design. This includes ensuring the provision of nutrient adequate social assistance, for example through linkages with large-scale food fortification efforts.
In line with the global agenda, there is a need for NUT to develop innovative corporate initiatives,
tools and guidance to ensure that WFP staff and stakeholders increasingly recognise the importance of and are empowered to implement and monitor nutrition sensitive operations.
Support the Nutrition and Food Quality Service to ensure adequate integration of nutrition, including through the nutritional adequacy of household assistance, across relevant programmes, with a specific focus on social protection, including school-based programmes.
Under these terms of reference, the consultant will assist in the implementation of the work carried out in the Programme and Policy Support Unit of the Nutrition and Food Quality Service, in particular:
Support to advance the work around nutrition sensitive social protection, including school-based programmes:
Contribute to the workplan of relevant nutrition strategy objectives, including nutrition in emergency, wasting and maternal nutrition and health diets:
Contribute to the Programme and Policy Support Unit workstream in the Nutrition and Food Quality Service
Learning products to document best practices developed Nutrition sensitive social protection offer developed Nutrition sensitive shock-responsive social protection tool tested in two countries Desk review on nutrition triggers finalized Risk matrix for nutritional adequacy developed Mapping of new CSP opportunities to leverage institutional demand to advance large-scale food fortification finalized.
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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
WFP is dedicated to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our recruitment process is inclusively crafted to welcome candidates of all backgrounds, celebrating diversity and ensuring a respectful environment for all. We aim for an accessible and fair recruitment journey. Should you need any reasonable accommodations or have accessibility concerns, please reach out to us confidentially at global.inclusion@wfp.org. Our DEI team is here to ensure your full participation in our recruitment process.
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REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
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