INTERNAL EXTERNAL ADV: Nutrition Officer (Overweight & Obesity Prevention), NO-B, Jakarta, Indonesia, Temporary Appointment (136859)

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For every child, the right to strength

The Nutrition Officer will support the Nutrition Specialist NCO, School age and adolescent nutrition and under the general guidance of Chief Nutrition in strengthening efforts to prevent overweight and obesity among children under five, school-age children, adolescents and women. The officer will contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of integrated nutrition interventions that promote healthy diets, physical activity and healthy food environments through health facility, school and community platforms. Specifically, the Nutrition Officer will provide technical and operational support to relevant government counterparts, including the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and other line ministries, in integrating overweight and obesity prevention into existing nutrition, health and school-based programmes. This includes contributing to the development or revision of technical guidelines, tools, training modules and communication materials that promote balanced diets, improved food environments and healthy behaviours across the life course. The officer will also support programme planning, coordination and implementation, including engagement with government partners, UN agencies and other stakeholders to strengthen multisectoral approaches to obesity prevention. In addition, he/she will contribute to programme monitoring, documentation of good practices and reporting of results to ensure evidence-based implementation and continuous programme improvement. This is a Temporary Appointment contract with duration of 364 days.

How can you make a difference? 

The Nutrition Officer (Overweight & Obesity Prevention) will be responsible for the following key end results:
1. Support to programme development and planning
• Conduct and update the situation analysis related to overweight and obesity among children under five, school-age children (SAC), adolescents and women to inform the development, design and management of nutrition programmes and projects. Research and report on relevant development trends (e.g., political, social, economic, nutrition, food systems and health environments) to support evidence-based programme planning and management.
• Contribute to the development and establishment of programme goals, objectives, strategies and results-based planning for overweight and obesity prevention through analysis of nutrition needs, dietary patterns, physical activity behaviours and food environment factors affecting children, adolescents and women.
• Contribute to advocacy efforts to strengthen nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive policies and programmes that promote healthy diets, physical activity and healthier food environments and contribute to the development of programmes and activities aimed at preventing overweight and obesity across the life course.
• Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of the programming process by executing and administering a range of programme transactions, preparing materials and documentation, and ensuring compliance with organizational procedures and systems to support programme planning, results-based management (RBM), and monitoring and evaluation.
• Prepare required documentation and materials to facilitate programme review and approval processes.

2. Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
• Work closely and collaboratively with colleagues and partners at national and sub-national levels to address operational and implementation issues related to overweight and obesity prevention programmes targeting children under five, school-age children, adolescents and women. Provide solutions and recommendations, and alert appropriate officials and stakeholders when higher-level intervention or decision-making is required.
• Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual reviews with government and other counterparts to assess programme progress and identify required actions to improve programme effectiveness and results.
• Monitor and report on the use of programme resources (financial, administrative and other assets), ensuring compliance with approved allocations, programme objectives, organizational regulations and donor commitments. Report on identified issues and follow-up to ensure timely resolution.
• Prepare regular and ad hoc programme and project reports for management, donors, and partners, clearly documenting progress, challenges, lessons learned, and results achieved.

3. Technical and operational support to programme implementation
• Conduct regular programme field visits and assessments to support the implementation of interventions promoting healthy diets, physical activity, and healthier food environments through health facility, school and community platforms. Exchange information with partners and stakeholders to assess progress and provide technical support.
• Identify implementation bottlenecks, critical issues and potential risks affecting programme delivery and recommend appropriate actions or escalate issues for timely resolution.
• Provide technical and operational support to government counterparts, civil society organization, UN agencies and other stakeholders on the application of UNICEF policies, strategies, systems and best practices related to overweight and obesity prevention, including healthy diet promotion, nutrition education and behaviour change approaches.

4. Networking and partnership building
• Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with nutrition sector government counterparts and national stakeholders through active sharing of information and knowledge to facilitate programme implementation and build capacity of stakeholders to achieve programme goals on prevention of overweight and obesity as well as school nutrition programme.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration among partners to strengthen coordinated actions promoting healthy diets, physical activity, supportive food environments and school nutrition programmes.
• Draft communication and advocacy materials to promote awareness of healthy diets, promotion of physical activity and obesity prevention, as well as school nutrition programme and to support partnership development and resource mobilization.
• Participate in relevant inter-agency meetings and events to contribute to joint programming and coordination with UN partners, ensuring alignment of UNICEF strategies with broader development and nutrition frameworks.
• Research information on potential donors and contribute to the preparation of resource mobilization materials and briefs to support funding for overweight and obesity prevention programmes.

5. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
• Identify, document and disseminate lessons learned and good practices in overweight and obesity prevention programmes to support knowledge development and programme improvement.
• Promote innovative approaches and evidence-based interventions that support healthy diets, physical activity and improved food environments across the life course.
• Conduct research and benchmarking of global and regional best practices to inform programme design, knowledge products and technical guidance.
• Support and contribute as a resource person in capacity-building initiatives for government counterparts and partners to strengthen their ability to design, implement and monitor effective overweight and obesity prevention interventions.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Term of Reference here:  TOR TA NOB Nutrition Officer [Overweight n obesity prevention] TMS.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

- Education: 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.
- Experience: 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, school nutrition, prevention of overweight and obesity, 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.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and English.

Desirables:

- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
- Familiarity with emergency settings
- Experience in nutrition programme/ project development in a UN system agency or organization
- Proven experience working in nutrition in Indonesia
- Proven experiences in managing health and nutrition programme in development context.
- Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to manage complex project implementation across multiple locations.
- Demonstrated expertise in developing high quality technical documents, ad-hoc programme reports, and communication materials.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

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