Nutrition Expert Officer

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nutrition, public health, food and nutrition sciences, agriculture, community development or a related field.
  

• Demonstrated experience implementing gender sensitive nutrition programmes in refugee or displacement affected contexts in Uganda.
  

• Strong knowledge of community-based nutrition approaches, dietary diversity, maternal and child nutrition and behaviour change communication methodologies.
  

• Experience integrating nutrition into agricultural, livelihoods or food security programmes, including kitchen gardens, small livestock or climate smart value chains.
  

• Proven experience in community mobilisation, working with women’s groups, caregiver groups and community-based facilitators.
  

• Familiarity with humanitarian and development donor requirements, including World Bank funded projects, nutrition indicators and safeguarding considerations.
  

• Experience supporting training of field staff and community facilitators using participatory approaches such as Farmer Field Schools or similar methodologies.
  

• Strong coordination skills with district health, agriculture and community development structures, Office of the Prime Minister and settlement leadership.
  

• Lead field level implementation of gender sensitive community-based nutrition interventions, including nutrition education, behaviour change communication and cooking demonstrations targeting women, caregivers, children, pregnant and lactating women.
  

• Support refugee and host community households to improve dietary diversity through integration of nutrition sensitive agriculture, kitchen gardens and promotion of nutrient rich crops and foods.
  

• Integrate nutrition objectives within crop, livestock and beneficial insect value chain activities in close coordination with agriculture and livelihoods teams.
  

• Support community mobilisation processes to ensure inclusive participation in nutrition activities, with particular attention to women, youth and vulnerable groups.
  

• Train and provide ongoing technical backstopping to community-based facilitators, lead farmers and women’s groups on nutrition sensitive programming and gender responsive approaches.
  

• Coordinate with district health, agriculture and community development structures, settlement leadership and relevant partners to align nutrition interventions with local systems and services.
  

• Ensure nutrition activities are implemented in line with Uganda Climate Smart Agricultural Transformation Project environmental and social safeguards, including gender, Gender Based Violence risk mitigation and do no harm principles.
  

• Support establishment and use of demonstration sites for nutrition sensitive agriculture, including kitchen gardens and household level food production models.