Nutrition Analyst

Analyses healthy-diet costs and affordability for WFP, translating evidence into nutrition-sensitive programmes. The consultant develops country analysis, training and decision-support products that help governments and WFP design interventions, transfer values and policy responses.

• Review household food expenditure, dietary intake, market, price and nutrition data
• Assess market-based nutrition interventions, cash transfers and local food solutions
• Analyse the feasibility and nutritional adequacy of approaches for children at risk of malnutrition
• Develop and tailor Enhance training on cost, affordability and intervention modelling
• Train WFP country offices, government counterparts and enumerators
• Support cost and affordability monitoring for early warning and programme adaptation
• Conduct secondary-data reviews and country-tailored modelling for healthy diets
• Prepare briefs, reports, presentations and advocacy products from analytical findings

• Graduate degree in public health, nutrition, economics, sustainable food systems, agronomy, statistics or a related socio-economic discipline with a strong quantitative data-analysis component
• Three to five years of relevant professional experience including research and data analysis
• Proficiency in quantitative and qualitative secondary-data analysis
• Solid knowledge of nutrition and food systems
• Professional written and spoken English

• Experience with dietary assessment, linear-programming nutrition-modelling tools or GIS and mapping software
• Experience working in low- and middle-income countries or fragile contexts
• Knowledge of social protection, health, school feeding, livelihoods, resilience or emergency programmes
• Professional knowledge of French, Spanish or Arabic
• Capacity-building and facilitation skills

• Nutrition Analysis
• Dietary Assessment
• Food Security Analysis
• Quantitative Data Analysis
• Intervention Modelling
• Capacity Building
• Policy Analysis
• Market Analysis
• Data Synthesis
• Technical Writing

• Enhance
• R
• STATA
• Cost of the Diet
• Opti-food
• GIS

• Consultancy assignment
• Apply through WFP’s online recruiting system with a CV and cover letter