Nutrition Sensitive Vacancy-Job Ref: BJGTWFP/2006/2025818

Nutrition Sensitive Vacancy-Job Ref: BJGTWFP/2006/2025818

Guatemala City (Guatemala)

Job Description

ABOUT WFP

The World Food Program is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP’s values ​​(Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

WHY JOIN WFP?

WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

Organizational Context
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest humanitarian agency of the United Nations (UN) in the world, saving and changing lives. We provide life-saving aid in emergencies and use food assistance to build a path to peace, stability, and prosperity for populations recovering from conflict, disasters, and the impact of climate change. The development programs that WFP implements in Guatemala are a turning point that changes lives in the most vulnerable communities of this Central American country. Guatemala faces serious challenges in achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 2) Zero Hunger, which includes eliminating all malnutrition by 2030.

Guatemala, a multiethnic country with a rich cultural heritage, is a country where poverty affects people in different spheres of life, including food insecurity, nutrition, health, and education. Almost half of the population cannot afford the cost of the basic food basket. As a result, the prevalence of stunting (developmental impairment due to malnutrition) in children under 5 years of age is one of the highest in the world and the highest in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Position Purpose
The incumbent is expected to support the development and implementation of WFP’s Nutrition cross-cutting activities in Guatemala. These activities are carried out around the implementation of regular WFP field projects, in a joint effort with partner organizations.

Key Responsibilities
• Support and monitor country office nutrition plan activities, especially technical assistance to comprehensive nutrition brigades, with the country office nutrition team.
• Contribute to the planning of participatory food and nutrition education projects to strengthen the FNS capacity of governmental and non-governmental institutions.
• Support the systematization of information for technical assistance in FNS for governmental and non-governmental institutions.

• Strengthen, together with the Nutrition team, the design of healthy recipe proposals with cultural relevance, which are integrated into the food rations provided within the framework of the country office’s food assistance, promoting community acceptance and healthy habits among the beneficiary population.
• Provide technical support for the activities of the National expansion of the Communication for Social and Behavior Change strategy, Generación Chispuda.
• Systematically monitor and evaluate the implementation of the three approaches of the Generación Chispuda program, in order to assess compliance, identify progress, and propose improvements.
• Provide technical support in the design, development, and implementation of qualitative and quantitative studies related to nutrition.

• Develop and systematize fact sheets, success stories, workshop reports, and outcome documents for their timely and effective dissemination to donors and other strategic partners, contributing to the visibility and positioning of the implemented interventions.
• Design and implement activities aimed at promoting the health and nutrition of WFP staff, within the framework of corporate wellness initiatives, in order to foster healthy habits and strengthen the self-care of the technical team.

Minimum Qualifications:
a) Current enrollment in a university undergraduate program and completion of at least two years of the program; or,
b) Recent graduate of a university undergraduate or graduate program (minimum two months).

Skills
a) Use of Office 365 tools. Advanced knowledge of spreadsheets (Excel).
b) Oral and written communication skills, including analysis and report writing skills.
c) Willingness to conduct field visits and interact with various partners and stakeholders.
d) Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

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