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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?

  • WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

  • WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

  • WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

  • A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

  • We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

    ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:

    The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency fighting hunger. WFP reaches more than 150 million people per year - delivering humanitarian food assistance and working with smallholder farmers, communities, and governments to improve nutrition and build resilience to crises. As conflict, climate change and economic shocks drive up the number of hungry people in Eastern Africa, finding innovative solutions to the complex humanitarian and development challenges in the region is essential, now perhaps more than ever.

    In Rwanda, WFP supports the Government with its ambitious goals to ensure food security and nutrition and equitable access to sustainable livelihoods for all. In this effort, WFP Rwanda works closely with diverse stakeholders to provide general food and nutrition assistance to over 135,000 refugees, asylum seekers and returnees; to strengthen national disaster risk management, social protection, school meals and nutrition programmes; to transform food systems; and to support emergency preparedness and response.

    JOB PURPOSE:

    WFP Rwanda, through its upcoming Country Strategic Plan (CSP) positions nutrition as across cutting to impact prevention to stunting in a multisectoral manner.

    The country office is therefore seeking a Nutritionist to support and contribute to the implementation of the new CSP in support to the nutrition priorities of the government of Rwanda and to provide support to nutrition programmes and activities to contribute to meeting the nutritional needs of WFP beneficiaries.

    KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, within delegated authority): Under the overall supervision of the Nutrition Advisor, the Nutritionist will be expected to perform the following duties:

    • Contribute to the development of nutrition projects and activities, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with the new CSP and the wider nutrition policies and guidance.
    • Provide project management support to specific and defined nutrition projects and activities, ensuring a co-ordinated approach with wider programmes/projects that complies with WFP standards and procedures.
    • Develop and co-ordinate data gathering and monitoring/assessment systems ensuring that rigorous quality standards are maintained.
    • Track and analyse data to provide input into reporting activities and contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on nutrition activities that enables informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
    • Liaise with implementing partners (internal and external) to monitor ongoing projects, ensuring effective collaboration, timeliness and efficiency, and highlight potential risks to project delivery.
    • Support the identification of potential partners and partnership negotiations to ensure a collaborative and holistic approach to meeting nutrition needs.
    • Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government to prepare for and respond to nutrition needs for example the production and review of training materials.
    • Guide more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with more complex analysis and queries.
    • Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.
    • Support creation of consumer-driven demand for healthy diets including fresh farm products and fortified foods.
    • Support the nutrition integration programming by ensuring effective linkages with all the pillars/strategic outcomes of the new CSP.
    • Prepare regular progress reports and contribute to preparation of corporate and donor reports.
    • Other as required.

      DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE:

      • Experience and exposure to implementation of national/international development programmes including but not limited to working with governments on developing nutrition policies and/or implementing nutrition programmes across the food systems.
      • Experience working in public health/food security/ nutrition related activities.
      • Experience identifying and defining nutrition issues/problems within a country.
      • Experience in implementing Social and Behaviour Change interventions.
      • Experience in managing government and non-government partnerships.

        STANDARD MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

        Education:

        Advanced University degree in Public Health Nutrition, Nutrition, Food

        Technology, Medicine or other relevant field.

        Experience:

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