Job Summary

A non-profit organization that seeks to combat world hunger is searching for a person to fill their position for a Remote International Nutrition and Policy Specialist.

Must be able to:

• Support the integration of better nutrition, in FAO's work, including the disaggregation of data by sex and age where appropriate
• Produce a variety of technical reports and inputs for technical documents, publications and/or web pages
• Participate in the development of improved/updated technical, statistical and/or analytical tools, methodologies, systems, databases, and/or key social/ economic/ environmental/ nutritional and/or early warning indicators, etc

Qualifications Include:

• University degree in Economics, Nutrition, Food Security and any other related field
• 7 years of relevant experience in areas of food systems and nutrition
• Working knowledge of English and limited knowledge of French for Consultants. Working knowledge of English and French will be an advantage
• Extent and relevance of experience and knowledge in setting up and undertaking empirical socio-economic analysis and developing, analyzing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating programmes/projects related to decent rural employment (DRE) in food systems
• Depth of experience with relevant DRE approaches for youth and capacity to grasp, analyze and synthesize their relevance to current regional rural development issues and trends related to youth employment and entrepreneurship in food and agriculture, both on farm and non-farm employment