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United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) – hiring Nutrition Officer (NO-B)

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United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nutrition Officer (NO-B)

Job no: 596801
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Location: Abuja
Level: NO-2
Categories: Health and Nutrition

How can you make a difference?

To enable UNICEF to execute the above strategy, the office is seeking a Nutrition Officer (NOB) TA at the L2 level on a temporary assignment to support the nutrition team with advocacy, policy formulation, and creating an enabling environment for implementing nutrition programs in Nigeria. The candidate will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on policy-strengthening activities and will represent UNICEF in advocacy platforms and activities as appropriate. The Nutrition Officer will report to the Nutrition Specialist (Enabling Environment-NOC).

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

Support to programme development and planning
Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results.
Technical and operational support to programme implementation
Advocacy, networking and partnership building
Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements

Education: Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in one of the following fields is required: nutrition, public health, nutritional epidemiology, global/international health and nutrition, health/nutrition research, policy, health sciences, nutrition epidemiology, or another health-related science field.
Work Experience: A minimum of two years of relevant professional work experience. Experience in implementing nutrition programming in and emergency context is required.
Skills: Experience in advocacy, partnership building, and results-based management.
Language Requirements : Fluency in English is required.

Desirables

Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language
Knowledge of the UN rules, procedures and regulations and/or working experience for the UN or other international development organization would be an asset.
Good knowledge and hands on experience in analytical, research methodology and statistical skills is an added advantage.
Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

Application Deadline :18, November 2026