Nutrition Specialist, NO-3, Fixed Term Position
2026-07-02T13:19:34+00:00
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
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Lilongwe
Lilongwe
10101
Malawi
Public Administration, and Government
Social Services & Nonprofit, Healthcare, Civil & Government
2026-07-13T17:00:00+00:00
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UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
For every child, the right to Empowerment
UNICEF Malawi aims to ensure that all children and adolescents can survive, grow, learn, and be protected, with a strong focus on those who are most vulnerable and at risk of being left behind. The programme works to create an inclusive and resilient environment where every child has equal opportunities.
UNICEF works across both humanitarian and development contexts to strengthen preparedness for emergencies, support climate adaptation and response, and build the resilience of institutions, communities, and young people.
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 play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and scaling up innovative interventions that enhance the availability, access, and consumption of diverse, nutritious foods at household and community levels. You will provide technical assistance, generate evidence, monitor programme implementation and contribute to strengthening nutrition systems. Your work will directly contribute to improving dietary diversity and nutritional outcomes for women, adolescents, and children across Malawi.
Responsibilities or duties
Under the guidance of the Chief, Nutrition, you will contribute to transforming the diets and futures of children, adolescents, and women, where too many still live in food poverty. In this role, you will drive strategies that increase the availability, access, and consumption of diverse, nutritious foods at scale. You will advance community-based approaches and support behaviour change to improve food utilization, preparation, and consumption. You will lead the development and rollout of a minimum package of child-sensitive, nutrition-responsive agriculture actions aligned with national priorities, including biofortified crops, nutrient-rich value chains, food innovation, and local processing initiatives. You will support implementation through community and district coordination structures and align with broader food systems efforts to improve the availability, affordability, and accessibility of healthy diets. You will also strengthen partnerships with UN agencies, government ministries, and other stakeholders to support joint planning, multisectoral coordination, scale-up of nutrition-sensitive value chains, knowledge sharing, and learning. By strengthening collaboration across sectors, you will help unlock resources, scale innovations, and ensure that nutrition is embedded within agriculture, food systems, social protection systems, health systems and community programmes.
In addition, you will monitor programme performance, strengthen data systems and evidence use, and document best practices and lessons learned to inform scale-up and policy advocacy.
Through proactive coordination and a strong drive for results, you will help strengthen programme quality and reach, while at the same time maximizing effectiveness and efficiency to make a meaningful and lasting impact.
Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)
Minimum requirements
Education: Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in nutrition, public health, epidemiology, global health, health policy, health management, health sciences, maternal and child health and any other related fields.
Skills: Proven partnership and coordination skills with government, UN partners (including FAO/WFP), CSOs and other stakeholders. Resource mobilization and grant management. Advocacy and system strengthening. Strong analytical and data-use capability; and. Effective communication skills.
Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.
Desirables
- Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
- Experience in food systems.
- Familiarity with grant management for EU supported projects.
- Developing country experience.
- Experience in nutrition programme/project development and management within a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
- Humanitarian experience
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
Experience needed
A minimum of five years of professional experience in a developing country is required in one or more of the following areas: nutrition, public health, nutrition planning and management, or food systems strengthening. Experience implementing both preventive and treatment nutrition interventions. Strong expertise in child sensitive nutrition-responsive agriculture and food systems. Ability to design and implement scalable, community-based interventions; Experience in household-level production, processing, preservation, value addition, and consumption of diverse, nutrient-dense foods through interventions that improve access at household and community levels. Facilitate linkages with other sectors and programmes like social protection and income generating activities to improve dietary diversity of children. Coordinate with the health systems to ensure availability of nutrition services including MIYCAN counselling and screening for severe acute malnutrition and referral in the targeted districts. and any other related fields.
* Contribute to transforming the diets and futures of children, adolescents, and women. * Drive strategies that increase the availability, access, and consumption of diverse, nutritious foods at scale. * Advance community-based approaches and support behaviour change to improve food utilization, preparation, and consumption. * Lead the development and rollout of a minimum package of child-sensitive, nutrition-responsive agriculture actions aligned with national priorities. * Support implementation through community and district coordination structures and align with broader food systems efforts. * Strengthen partnerships with UN agencies, government ministries, and other stakeholders. * Monitor programme performance, strengthen data systems and evidence use, and document best practices and lessons learned. * Design, implement, and scale up innovative interventions that enhance the availability, access, and consumption of diverse, nutritious foods at household and community levels. * Provide technical assistance, generate evidence, monitor programme implementation and contribute to strengthening nutrition systems. * Improve dietary diversity and nutritional outcomes for women, adolescents, and children across Malawi.
* Proven partnership and coordination skills with government, UN partners (including FAO/WFP), CSOs and other stakeholders. * Resource mobilization and grant management. * Advocacy and system strengthening. * Strong analytical and data-use capability. * Effective communication skills.
* Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in nutrition, public health, epidemiology, global health, health policy, health management, health sciences, maternal and child health and any other related fields. * A minimum of five years of professional experience in a developing country is required in one or more of the following areas: nutrition, public health, nutrition planning and management, or food systems strengthening. * Experience implementing both preventive and treatment nutrition interventions. * Strong expertise in child sensitive nutrition-responsive agriculture and food systems. * Ability to design and implement scalable, community-based interventions. * Experience in household-level production, processing, preservation, value addition, and consumption of diverse, nutrient-dense foods through interventions that improve access at household and community levels. * Facilitate linkages with other sectors and programmes like social protection and income generating activities to improve dietary diversity of children. * Coordinate with the health systems to ensure availability of nutrition services including MIYCAN counselling and screening for severe acute malnutrition and referral in the targeted districts. * Fluency in English is required.
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Nutrition Specialist, NO-3, Fixed Term Position
[Type: CONTRACTOR, Industry: Public Administration, and Government, Category: Social Services & Nonprofit, Healthcare, Civil & Government]
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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Deadline of this Job:
Monday, July 13 2026
Duty Station:
Lilongwe | Lilongwe
Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, July 2 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
For every child, the right to Empowerment
UNICEF Malawi aims to ensure that all children and adolescents can survive, grow, learn, and be protected, with a strong focus on those who are most vulnerable and at risk of being left behind. The programme works to create an inclusive and resilient environment where every child has equal opportunities.
UNICEF works across both humanitarian and development contexts to strengthen preparedness for emergencies, support climate adaptation and response, and build the resilience of institutions, communities, and young people.
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 play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and scaling up innovative interventions that enhance the availability, access, and consumption of diverse, nutritious foods at household and community levels. You will provide technical assistance, generate evidence, monitor programme implementation and contribute to strengthening nutrition systems. Your work will directly contribute to improving dietary diversity and nutritional outcomes for women, adolescents, and children across Malawi.
Responsibilities or duties
Under the guidance of the Chief, Nutrition, you will contribute to transforming the diets and futures of children, adolescents, and women, where too many still live in food poverty. In this role, you will drive strategies that increase the availability, access, and consumption of diverse, nutritious foods at scale. You will advance community-based approaches and support behaviour change to improve food utilization, preparation, and consumption. You will lead the development and rollout of a minimum package of child-sensitive, nutrition-responsive agriculture actions aligned with national priorities, including biofortified crops, nutrient-rich value chains, food innovation, and local processing initiatives. You will support implementation through community and district coordination structures and align with broader food systems efforts to improve the availability, affordability, and accessibility of healthy diets. You will also strengthen partnerships with UN agencies, government ministries, and other stakeholders to support joint planning, multisectoral coordination, scale-up of nutrition-sensitive value chains, knowledge sharing, and learning. By strengthening collaboration across sectors, you will help unlock resources, scale innovations, and ensure that nutrition is embedded within agriculture, food systems, social protection systems, health systems and community programmes.
In addition, you will monitor programme performance, strengthen data systems and evidence use, and document best practices and lessons learned to inform scale-up and policy advocacy.
Through proactive coordination and a strong drive for results, you will help strengthen programme quality and reach, while at the same time maximizing effectiveness and efficiency to make a meaningful and lasting impact.
Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)
Minimum requirements
Education: Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in nutrition, public health, epidemiology, global health, health policy, health management, health sciences, maternal and child health and any other related fields.
Skills: Proven partnership and coordination skills with government, UN partners (including FAO/WFP), CSOs and other stakeholders. Resource mobilization and grant management. Advocacy and system strengthening. Strong analytical and data-use capability; and. Effective communication skills.
Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.
Desirables
- Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
- Experience in food systems.
- Familiarity with grant management for EU supported projects.
- Developing country experience.
- Experience in nutrition programme/project development and management within a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
- Humanitarian experience
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
Experience needed
A minimum of five years of professional experience in a developing country is required in one or more of the following areas: nutrition, public health, nutrition planning and management, or food systems strengthening. Experience implementing both preventive and treatment nutrition interventions. Strong expertise in child sensitive nutrition-responsive agriculture and food systems. Ability to design and implement scalable, community-based interventions; Experience in household-level production, processing, preservation, value addition, and consumption of diverse, nutrient-dense foods through interventions that improve access at household and community levels. Facilitate linkages with other sectors and programmes like social protection and income generating activities to improve dietary diversity of children. Coordinate with the health systems to ensure availability of nutrition services including MIYCAN counselling and screening for severe acute malnutrition and referral in the targeted districts. and any other related fields.
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Experience in Months: 60
Level of Education: postgraduate degree
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