Nutrition Coordinator

Job Description

Nutrition Coordinator | World Food Programme

The Tone:
This is a coordinator role at World Food Programme, located in Maseru. WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, focused on saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build pathways to peace, stability, and prosperity. This role is crucial for strengthening coordination, resource mobilization, and stakeholder engagement to accelerate Lesotho’s national nutrition agenda. It ensures nutrition is effectively integrated into national development processes and UN programming.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: In-person Maseru
• Team: Under the supervision of the Resident Coordinator
• Mission: To accelerate the national nutrition agenda in Lesotho by strengthening coordination, resource mobilization, and stakeholder engagement across all sectors and levels of governance.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Strategic Guidance & Integration: Advise the Resident Coordinator on critical nutrition priorities and policies, ensuring nutrition interventions are fully integrated into national development processes, UN programming, and align with the Food and Nutrition Strategic Framework (2026-2031) and N4G commitments.
• Multisectoral Coordination & Partnerships: Strengthen diverse multisectoral coordination efforts under the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, including reactivating and operationalizing SUN platforms with government institutions, UN agencies, civil society, academia, and the private sector, and establish effective coordination mechanisms among key stakeholders.
• Resource Mobilization & Investment: Facilitate resource mobilization by convening development partner and private sector forums, preparing comprehensive funding proposals, and supporting strategic engagement with IFIs and philanthropic organizations to increase investment in nutrition priorities.
• Traditional Leadership & Community Action: Support engagement between the Resident Coordinator and the College of Chiefs on nutrition priorities, organize regular coordination meetings, and facilitate linkages with SUN platforms to mobilize support for Chiefs’ commitments, while documenting and disseminating successful examples of community action.
• Advocacy, Communication & Learning: Lead evidence-based advocacy efforts by documenting good practices and success stories, develop strategic communication materials to raise public awareness and promote youth engagement in nutrition initiatives, and produce knowledge products on nutrition leadership.

The Must-Haves
• Background: An advanced degree (Master’s level or equivalent) in Business/Public Management, Social Policy, Public Health, Nutrition, Economics, or Development Studies, or a first university degree combined with additional years of relevant work experience and training. This role requires foundational knowledge in multi-sector coordination, policy advocacy, or programme management.
• Experience: A minimum of seven years of professional experience specifically in multi-sector coordination, policy advocacy, or programme management. Demonstrated experience in collaborating with traditional leadership structures and government institutions is essential for this role.
• Skills: Strong planning and project management capabilities. Excellent facilitation, negotiation, and communication skills to engage diverse stakeholders. Familiarity with United Nations coordination mechanisms and established nutrition governance frameworks is also required.