Assessment and Development of Infant and Young Child Feeding Interventions in Botswana.

If you are a passionate and committed professional and want to make a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.

Purpose:

UNICEF, the world’s leading organization working for the rights of children, seeks a consultant to help better understand factors that contribute to sub-optimal infant feeding practices and develop and field-test interventions that promote life-saving feeding practices while taking into account locally available and accessible foods, cultural norms and practices, and environmental influences to infant feeding.

For more information, see the attached TERMS OF REFERENCE.

Minimum requirements and competencies:
• Advanced university degree in Nutrition or Public Health with sound Nutrition knowledge
• Five years of relevant work experience in Public Health Nutrition, particularly in the area of Infant and Young Child Feeding
• Demonstrated research experience in young child nutrition, including assessments, data analysis and report writing
• Proven experience conducting ProPan modules 1 (assessment) and 2 (field-testing)
• ProPan experience in more than 1 setting will be considered an advantage
• ProPan experience in Eastern and Southern Africa region will be considered an advantage
• Proven experience in training other researchers on ProPan
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with national authorities in research projects

How to Apply:

Closing date of application: 15th August 2014

Interested and qualified candidates should send an e-mail requesting for complete Terms of Reference tocmekandi@unicef.org. Applications should be sent to the same address with the following documents:

• Updated United Nations Personal History Form -P11 (searchable on the internet)
• Updated CV
• Consultancy proposal including timelines and consultancy fees

Please note that only candidates who are under serious consideration will be contacted.

In the selection of its staff, UNICEF is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as to race, sex or religion, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities: well qualified candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.