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WFP Nutrition Intern Jobs 2024 – Kenya NGO Jobs

WFP Nutrition Intern Jobs 2024 – Kenya NGO Jobs.

WFP Kenya looking for “Nutrition Intern”.

Applicants with a University degree may apply on or before April 29, 2024.

The World Food Programme is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations. It is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, the largest one focused on hunger and food security, and the largest provider of school meals. Founded in 1961, it is headquartered in Rome and has offices in 80 countries.

WFP Nutrition Intern Jobs 2024

The WFP has published a job vacancy announcement on April 16, 2024 for qualified Kenya’s to fill in the vacant post of Nutrition Intern to be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Recruiter World Food Programme (WFP)
Position Nutrition Intern
Location Nairobi, Kenya
Country Kenya
Total Vacant Post N/A
Qualification University degree
Experience Required At least One years
Application Deadline April 29, 2024

WFP Job Vacancy 2024

Job Purpose:

The Nutrition Unit sits within the Programme Support Unit (PSU) where it provides technical support relating to nutrition to the outcome areas. WFP Kenya launched its Country Strategic Plan (2023-2027) in July 2023. Nutrition has been integrated across the strategic outcome areas. Under strategic outcome one, the focus is on emergency contexts in Kenya having equitable access to adequate, safe, nutritious food, and inclusive, gender-responsive, nutrition-sensitive pathways to self-reliance. Strategic outcome two considers support to food insecure and nutritionally vulnerable populations to benefit from more nutrition-sensitive value chains that expand dietary diversity and healthy diets.

Strategic outcome three focuses on capacity-strengthening support to national and county institutions and partners for Kenya’s inclusive, nutrition-sensitive, shock-responsive social safety nets and social protection systems and programmes to strengthen Kenya’s adaptive capacity to prepare for and respond to shocks.

The unit works on the following areas:

  • Providing technical advice to the Country Office and Area Offices on programme and policy issues, including assessment and analysis, activities, and transfer modalities for nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programming in line with WFP standards and processes.
  • Programme design and implementation of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions as well as proposal writing for resource mobilization efforts.
  • Design, implement, and analyse assessments in collaboration with VAM and M&E units at the country office level. Assess the food and nutrient gap to identify multisectoral opportunities and entry points that contribute to improving the nutrition situation for households.
  • Managing partnerships, including inter-agency collaboration, to ensure a robust multisectoral response to nutrition in both emergency and non-emergency settings.
  • Develops and implements social behaviour change communication activities for nutrition in the country office.
  • Track and analyze data to provide input into reporting activities and contribute to the review of annual country reports.
  • Emergency preparedness actions, providing technical recommendations on contingency planning, risk analysis, and early warning related to nutrition risks.

Qualification & Experience:

  • Education : Recent graduate with a Bachelors degree  in the field of Human Nutrition, Dietetics, Public Health Nutrition, Sociology and Social Work,  Programme Management in Humanitarian Settings within the last 6 months.
  • Language : Fluency in written and spoken English.

Other Details

  • Requisition ID 832526
  • Posted 15/04/2024 – Short Term Monthly – Africa,
  • Central & Eastern – Kenya – Nairobi

How to Apply WFP Nutrition Intern Jobs 2024

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The Closing Date: April 29, 2024.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

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