UNICEF ANGOLA COUNTRY OFFICE
INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT
Title: Nutrition and Child Feeding Consultant
WBS: 6810/A0/06/881/004/001
Grant: Non Grant
Level: P3
Budget: RR Non Grant
Duration: 7 months
Starting date: 07 September 2015
Duty Station: Luanda, Angola
Reporting to: Chief Social Policy
TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR
Nutrition and Child Feeding Consultant
1. Purpose of the Consultancy
Under the general guidance of the Chief, CSD Section, the Nutrition Specialist will be responsible
for the development, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Nutrition
component of the CSD programme.
The incumbent will lead and support the overall coordination and management of the design and
implementation of the National Nutrition Ethnographic Survey, National nutrition strategic plan,
Nutritional sentinel surveillance system, IYCF and CMAM activities in at least 2 focus provinces
(Huila and Namibe) and the 11 drought affected provinces.
2. Work Assignment Overview Tasks
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Provide management and technical leadership oversight of the Nutrition interventions in
the GOJ-UNICEF grant and emergency drought response programme in Namibe Province.
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Support the strengthening of the Nutritional Sentinel surveillance system in all 18
provinces
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Work in collaboration with the relevant Ministries, NGOs, and development partners to
design and supervise the conduct of a National IDD and nutrition ethnographic survey in
18 provinces.
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Work with national partners and key NGO stakeholders to support the capacity building
and expansion and scale up of IYCF and CMAM implementation in 11 drought affected
provinces and municipalities;
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Provide regular inputs to the funding proposals, reports, including Nutridash and CSD
scorecard.
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3. Minimum Qualifications required

Advanced university degree in one of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: Public
Health & Nutrition, Health Sciences, International Health & Nutrition, Public Health &
Nutrition Policy and Management , Family Health & Nutrition, Nutritional Epidemiology,
Health & Nutrition Education, Health & Nutrition Promotion and Disease Prevention or
other relevant discipline(s)
4. Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required
The candidate should demonstrate that he/she meets the following requirements:
 Translate strategic direction into plans and objectives;
 Analyses and integrates diverse and complex quantitative and qualitative data from a wide
range of sources;
 Has good leadership and supervisory skills; co-ordinates group activities, ensuring that
roles within the team are clear;
 Experience in monitoring gender inequalities and in programming interventions that reduce
these inequalities an asset;
 Set high standards for quality of work and consistently achieves project goals;
 Quickly builds rapport with individuals and groups; maintains an effective network of
individuals across organizational departments;
 Identify urgent and potentially difficult decisions and acts on them promptly; initiates and
generates team-and department-wide activities;
 Demonstrate, apply and share expert technical knowledge across the organization;
 Working knowledge of the Portuguese language or any language from the same group of
language (Spanish, French, Italian), i.e. ability to communicate with counterparts and
partners.
If the above requirements are met, an Expression of Interest in which the relevant experience for
the areas above is explained, including (a) CV(s) should be sent to the email address below.
candidates should sent a completed P11-form (United Nations Personal History Form) which can
be downloaded from http://unicef.org/about/employment/index_apply.html or request from
luandarecruitment@unicef.org.
UNICEF reserves the right to ask for more documentation if needed. The Expression of Interest
needs to be sent not later than 2nd of September 2015. Only candidates that meet all requirements
will be shortlisted for the second round.
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