Nutrition Intern at World Food Programme (WFP)

JOB PURPOSE

• The Nutrition Unit sits within the Programme Support Unit (PSU) where it provides technical support relating to nutrition to the outcome areas. WFP Kenya launched its Country Strategic Plan (2023-2027) in July 2023. Nutrition has been integrated across the strategic outcome areas. Under strategic outcome one, the focus is on emergency contexts in Kenya having equitable access to adequate, safe, nutritious food, and inclusive, gender-responsive, nutrition-sensitive pathways to self-reliance. Strategic outcome two considers support to food insecure and nutritionally vulnerable populations to benefit from more nutrition-sensitive value chains that expand dietary diversity and healthy diets.
• Strategic outcome three focuses on capacity-strengthening support to national and county institutions and partners for Kenya’s inclusive, nutrition-sensitive, shock-responsive social safety nets and social protection systems and programmes to strengthen Kenya’s adaptive capacity to prepare for and respond to shocks.

The unit works on the following areas: 

• Providing technical advice to the Country Office and Area Offices on programme and policy issues, including assessment and analysis, activities, and transfer modalities for nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programming in line with WFP standards and processes.
• Programme design and implementation of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions as well as proposal writing for resource mobilization efforts.
• Design, implement, and analyse assessments in collaboration with VAM and M&E units at the country office level. Assess the food and nutrient gap to identify multisectoral opportunities and entry points that contribute to improving the nutrition situation for households.
• Managing partnerships, including inter-agency collaboration, to ensure a robust multisectoral response to nutrition in both emergency and non-emergency settings.
• Develops and implements social behaviour change communication activities for nutrition in the country office.
• Track and analyze data to provide input into reporting activities and contribute to the review of annual country reports.
• Emergency preparedness actions, providing technical recommendations on contingency planning, risk analysis, and early warning related to nutrition risks.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Under the overall supervision of the Head of Nutrition, the incumbent will perform the following duties: –

• Support developing and implementing nutrition-specific and sensitive activities and monitoring processes per the CSP.
• Respond to routine queries with readily available support by senior staff and escalate where appropriate to provide a timely and accurate response to inquiries.
• Conduct field visits to project sites to monitor the implementation of projects and support with the preparations and conducting of mission visits to project sites by senior WFP officers or donors.
• Assisted in preparing nutrition-related reports and data analysis and ensuring deliverables adhered to WFP corporate standards and quality controls.
• Contribute to the writing of reports and funding proposals/concepts notes.
• Accompany WFP officials in nutrition-related partners’ meetings, workshops, etc., among other things.
• Perform other related duties as required.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education : Recent graduate with a Bachelors degree  in the field of Human Nutrition, Dietetics, Public Health Nutrition, Sociology and Social Work,  Programme Management in Humanitarian Settings within the last 6 months.
• Language : Fluency in written and spoken English.