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.
UNICEF Jakarta is looking for a Nutrition Officer who will provide professional technical, operational, and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the overweight prevention programme within the Country Programme, from development planning to delivery of results. In doing so, the incumbent implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of results. Under the supervision of Nutrition Specialist, the Nutrition Officer will perform below key functions:
Support to programme development and planning
Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
Technical and operational support to programme implementation
Networking and partnership building
Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:
A university degree in one of the following fields is required: nutrition, public health, nutritional epidemiology, global/international health and nutrition, health/nutrition research, policy and/or management, health sciences, nutritional epidemiology, or another related field.
A minimum of two years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: nutrition, public health, nutrition planning and management, food and nutrition security, overweight prevention, food environment, or maternal, infant and child health/nutrition care. The successful candidate is also expected to have strong skills in planning, implementing and monitoring programme, and performing communication and advocacy to support the development, or strengthening, of sectoral and cross-sectoral policies that can positively contribute to reducing the triple burden of malnutrition in Indonesia.
Experience in nutrition programme/project development in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia is required.
