Programme Policy Officer (Nutrition)

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Mission and objectives

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.

Context

WFP Rwanda is currently implementing a five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP, 2019-2023) with five strategic outcomes focused on both humanitarian and development support. The International UN Volunteer will work primarily under the strategic outcome three (SO3) which focuses on supporting the Government to strengthen capacity for nutrition and HIV service delivery, develop guidance materials including food standards, generate nutrition and HIV data to inform national programmes and policies. Under SO3, WFP is the lead agency for a four-year UN Joint Nutrition Project (2021- 2025) being implemented by FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. The Project aims at addressing stunting and other forms of malnutrition with activities by strengthening the Government’s capacity to enhance maternal, infant, child and adolescent nutrition through various approaches including private sector engagement, social and behaviour change communication.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of the Nutritionist/ Head of Nutrition, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: • Contribute to the development, implementation and review of nutrition activities, plans and proposals, ensuring alignment with wider nutrition policies and guidance, priorities. • Assist to conduct literature reviews on relevant nutrition topics including behaviour change, fortification and bio-fortification in line with the Initiative for Food and Nutri-tion in Africa (IFNA) and Government of Japan’s Sector Policy Loan for Nutrition Improvement through Agriculture Transformation activities in Rwanda. • Contribute to nutrition situation and data analysis and reporting including develop-ment of nutrition materials as part of efforts to support the National Child Develop-ment Agency (NCDA, the Government’s agency responsible for nutrition)’s priorities on reducing stunting and improving adolescent nutrition. • Support to enhance coordination of nutrition activities under the UN Joint Nutrition Project. • Contribute to provide guidance on nutrition-sensitive programming of WFP’s hu-manitarian and development activities especially strengthening nutrition-sensitive agriculture programming of the CSP. • Participate in multi-stakeholder platforms to contribute to technical discussions, ad-vocate for nutrition interventions and identify areas of potential collaboration and partnerships as required. • 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. • Support knowledge management activities of the nutrition team. • Provide project management support to nutrition projects and activities. • Support to identify and mobilise funding for nutrition activities. • Perform other duties as required. Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to: • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day); • Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities; • Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publica-tions/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers; • Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.