United Nations Children's Fund
Experience: Above 10 Years
Skill Required: Project and Program Management
Apply By: 20-02-2023
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
Organizational Context and Purpose for the job
UNICEF's fundamental mission is to promote every child's rights, leaving no one behind. In Nigeria, the nutrition situation of children under five has recorded minimal change, and currently, Nigeria is off track to achieving the World Health Assembly 2025 and the Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Approximately one in three children under five in Nigeria is stunted, while one of every ten children is wasted. Consequently, Nigeria has the world's second-highest number of malnourished children and the highest in Africa.
Nigeria has the second-highest number of malnourished children in the world and the highest in Africa. Malnutrition, in all its forms, is a violation of a children’s right to adequate nutrition. To change the narrative, UNICEF in partnership with the government and other stakeholders aims to deliver good quality prevention and treatment services at scale to build resilience and protect the most vulnerable, particularly during the First 1000 Days of Life. The focus, in keeping with UNICEF Nigeria’s new Country Programme Strategy (2023-2027), is to (i) strengthen the enabling environment, including data, to inform policy and programming; (ii) strengthen systems, especially the health, and food and social protection system to deliver high-quality services; and (iii) address social and behavioral practices that influence diets and practices.
How can you make a difference?
To enable UNICEF to address social and behavioral practices that influence diets and practices in the first 1,000 days of life, UNICEF Nigeria is seeking a Nutrition Manager (P4, Temporary Assignment) to be based in Abuja, Nigeria. Specifically, the Nutrition Manager will be responsible for the following:
Key responsibilities:
Programme development and planning
Programme management, monitoring, and delivery of results
Advisory services and technical support
Advocacy, networking, and partnership building
Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
Promote critical thinking and innovative approaches for sustainable social and behavioral practices that influence diets and practices
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
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