Education: Master’s degree in Human Nutrition, Public Health Nutrition.
Work Experience:
- At least 10 years of progressively responsible professional experience in food systems, food environment policy, nutrition policy, public health policy, governance, advocacy, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience supporting the development, implementation or evaluation of food-environment policies, including areas such as food marketing restrictions, healthy school food environments, healthy retail, fiscal measures, food labelling, public procurement or related policy interventions.
- Demonstrated experience developing policy toolkits, guidance documents, frameworks, implementation resources, decision-support tools or advocacy resources for governments, UN agencies, development partners or civil society organizations.
- Experience conducting stakeholder analysis, political economy analysis, governance assessments and/or conflict-of-interest assessments related to public policy processes.
- Experience synthesizing evidence and translating technical information into practical guidance, policy recommendations and advocacy products.
- Experience working with UN agencies, international organizations, governments or development partners.
Language Requirements:
Fluency in written and spoken English is required.Knowledge of another UN language is desirable.
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills:
- Strong understanding of food-environment policies and overweight and obesity prevention.
- Strong analytical, research and writing skills.
- Demonstrated ability to develop practical tools, frameworks and guidance resources for non-technical users.
- Excellent facilitation, consultation and stakeholder-engagement skills.
- Ability to synthesize complex information into user-friendly products and recommendations.
- Strong project management and organizational skills.
- Experience working on food policy advocacy, governance and conflict-of-interest management.
- Familiarity with UNICEF, WHO or other UN system policy and programme environments.
- Experience working across multiple countries and regions.
- Experience supporting policy change processes in low- and middle-income countries.
