Nutrition Programme Officer

Job Description

Programme Associate (Nutrition) | World Food Programme

The Tone:
This is an associate-level role at the World Food Programme, located in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, focused on saving lives in emergencies and building pathways to peace and prosperity through food assistance for those recovering from conflict, disasters, and extreme weather. This role is crucial for providing specialized technical support to nutrition programme activities, ensuring effective implementation and responsiveness to the nutrition needs of communities through health facilities. The position contributes directly to WFP’s mission of combating hunger and improving human capital development.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: In-person Jalalabad
• Team: Reports to Nutrition Programme Policy Officer and Head of Program, managing Nutrition activities under Human Capital Development (HCD).
• Mission: To provide specialized technical support for Nutrition Programme activities, ensuring effective implementation and responsiveness to community nutrition needs through health facilities.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Programme Support: Provide technical and programme support for the planning, implementation, monitoring, and follow-up of WFP nutrition activities, including TSFP, BSFP, Stunting prevention, and MCBP, ensuring alignment with WFP policies and agreed targets.
• Project Management: Support the management of nutrition projects and Field Level Agreements (FLAs), encompassing calls for proposals, budget reviews, amendments, submission timelines, and timely communication with cooperating partners.
• Data Management: Maintain accurate and up-to-date nutrition programme data and records, such as FLA/amendment tracking, project documentation, beneficiary data, and programme files, ensuring information is complete, well-organized, and readily accessible.
• Reporting & Analysis: Compile, analyze, and report nutrition programme data, including implementation progress, beneficiary reach, performance indicators, and resource utilization, identifying trends, gaps, and issues requiring follow-up while ensuring reports meet WFP quality standards.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate with WFP Country Office, relevant technical units, cooperating partners, government counterparts, and UN agencies to facilitate effective coordination, implementation, monitoring, and delivery of nutrition assistance.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Minimum Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Medical, Nutrition, Public Health, or Food Science.
• Experience: Minimum 6 years of experience in nutrition, medical, public health, food science, or project management within a humanitarian context.
• Skills: Nutrition programme implementation, Data analysis and reporting, Project and agreement management (FLAs), Stakeholder coordination, Fluency in oral and written English, Pashto, and Dari.