Acute Malnutrition Guidelines and Training Package Consultant

Updates Sierra Leone’s national guidance and training package for managing acute malnutrition in children. The consultant reviews evidence, aligns protocols with WHO’s 2023 guidance, facilitates technical consultation and validation, and delivers practical guidelines, job aids and an implementation plan.

Department: WHO Sierra Leone Country Office

• Review national acute-malnutrition guidelines, training packages and operational tools
• Analyze WHO guidance, international standards and scientific evidence
• Identify gaps and lead national adaptation discussions
• Draft evidence-based guidelines, training materials and job aids
• Facilitate stakeholder consultation and validation workshops
• Finalize products and develop an implementation and dissemination plan

• Advanced degree in public health, nutrition, paediatrics or a related field
• Seven years of experience in nutrition policy, programme implementation or guideline development
• Five years of experience revising clinical or operational acute-malnutrition guidance
• Knowledge of WHO guidance on wasting and nutritional oedema
• Experience managing severe acute malnutrition and monitoring nutrition programmes
• Working proficiency in English

• Full-time consultancy with no travel required
• Remuneration follows the WHO consultant scale at NOC level