UNICEF is seeking a dynamic and committed professional to join its team as a Nutrition Specialist, delivering high-impact programmes for children, adolescents and women. You will be at the forefront of advancing the country’s Nutrition Programme by driving evidence-based interventions and strengthening national nutrition systems. You will play a key role in enhancing multisectoral coordination, generating and using data for decision-making, and reinforcing governance structures to improve nutrition outcomes. In addition, you will ensure robust programme monitoring, high-quality reporting, and alignment with national policies to maximize impact and sustainability.
UNICEF OOI is seeking for a consultant who will operate as part of a distributed team led by the Office of Innovation, providing direct governance mentoring to country offices, and contributing expert inputs to methodology alignment, guidance products, and institutional learning processes.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
The Nutrition Specialist is based at the UNICEF Field Office in Ambovombe and operates under a matrix management arrangement, reporting to the Nutrition Chief and the Chief of Field Office Ambovombe. In addition to managing the nutrition programme in the assigned area, the incumbent is responsible for coordinating nutrition interventions across the three regions of the Grand Sud (Androy, Anosy, and Atsimo-Andrefana), providing technical leadership and oversight to sub-national nutrition stakeholders and partners in these regions. The Nutrition Specialist supports the development and preparation of the nutrition programme and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of a sector of the nutrition programme within the country programme. The Nutrition Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results in maternal, infant and child nutrition programmes/projects. This is carried out according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), as well as UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework.The efficiency and efficacy of support provided by the Nutrition Specialist to the preparation, planning and implementation of nutrition programmes/projects contributes to and accelerates the national development efforts to improve the nutritional status of mothers, infants and children in the country. This in turn contributes to maintaining and enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to continue to provide programme services to mothers and children that promotes greater social equity in the country.
The Security Manager (P-4), serving as Deputy to the Regional Adviser Security, provides leadership, analysis, and technical support to strengthen security risk management across the ECAMENA region. The role focuses on guiding country offices, enhancing preparedness and coordination, and integrating security into operations to reduce risks in complex and high-risk environments.
UNICEF is seeking a dynamic and committed professional to join its team as a Nutrition Specialist, delivering high-impact programmes for children, adolescents and women. You will be at the forefront of advancing the country’s Nutrition Programme by driving evidence-based interventions and strengthening national nutrition systems. You will play a key role in enhancing multisectoral coordination, generating and using data for decision-making, and reinforcing governance structures to improve nutrition outcomes. In addition, you will ensure robust programme monitoring, high-quality reporting, and alignment with national policies to maximize impact and sustainability.
UNICEF OOI is seeking for a consultant who will operate as part of a distributed team led by the Office of Innovation, providing direct governance mentoring to country offices, and contributing expert inputs to methodology alignment, guidance products, and institutional learning processes.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
The Nutrition Specialist is based at the UNICEF Field Office in Ambovombe and operates under a matrix management arrangement, reporting to the Nutrition Chief and the Chief of Field Office Ambovombe. In addition to managing the nutrition programme in the assigned area, the incumbent is responsible for coordinating nutrition interventions across the three regions of the Grand Sud (Androy, Anosy, and Atsimo-Andrefana), providing technical leadership and oversight to sub-national nutrition stakeholders and partners in these regions. The Nutrition Specialist supports the development and preparation of the nutrition programme and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of a sector of the nutrition programme within the country programme. The Nutrition Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results in maternal, infant and child nutrition programmes/projects. This is carried out according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), as well as UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework.The efficiency and efficacy of support provided by the Nutrition Specialist to the preparation, planning and implementation of nutrition programmes/projects contributes to and accelerates the national development efforts to improve the nutritional status of mothers, infants and children in the country. This in turn contributes to maintaining and enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to continue to provide programme services to mothers and children that promotes greater social equity in the country.
The Security Manager (P-4), serving as Deputy to the Regional Adviser Security, provides leadership, analysis, and technical support to strengthen security risk management across the ECAMENA region. The role focuses on guiding country offices, enhancing preparedness and coordination, and integrating security into operations to reduce risks in complex and high-risk environments.
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