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School Nutrition Guidelines and Standards Specialist

Rome

  • Organization: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  • Location: Rome
  • Grade: Consultancy - Consultant - Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Education, Learning and Training
    • Nutrition
    • ESN
  • Closing Date: Closed

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  • FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background, and culture
  • Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented member nations, and person with disabilities are encouraged to apply
  • Everyone who works for FAO is required to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct and to uphold our values. FAO has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and FAO, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination
  • All selected candidates, therefore, will undergo rigorous reference and background checks
  • All applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality
  • The incumbent may be re-assigned to different activities and/or duty stations depending on the evolving needs of the Organization


Organizational Setting

FAO’s Food and Nutrition Division assists Members to improve diets and raise levels of nutrition and provides support with appropriate policies, strategies and methodologies for improving the efficiency and inclusiveness of their agriculture and food systems. As a knowledge leader, areas addressed include dietary assessment, support on nutrition-sensitive food and agriculture policies and programmes, effective nutrition promotion programmes, food value chains, market linkages, post-harvest handling, food loss and waste reduction and nutrition-sensitive agro-processing. FAO is committed to support Members in their efforts to improve nutritional outcomes as stated in the Rome Declaration on Nutrition (November 2014) and to mainstream nutrition across all of the work of the Organization.

Reporting Lines

The School Nutrition Guidelines and Standards Specialist will report to the Senior Nutrition Officer, ESN, and work under the overall supervision of the Director of the Food and Nutrition Division, and under the guidance of the project´s Technical Coordinator and Budget Holder.

Technical Focus


The assignment will focus on the technical design, piloting and revision of a global methodology to develop cost-effective, feasible and context-specific nutrition guidelines and standards (NGS) for school food/school meals.

Tasks and responsibilities

The School Nutrition Guidelines and Standards Specialist will:
• Conduct a purposeful review of the global evidence to inform the development of a global methodology to design school food NGS.
• Draft an extended version of the global methodology building on an approved outline, informed by the results from the evidence review and FAO´s experience and expertise with food-based dietary guidelines.
• Organize and collect inputs to the extended outline from a range of experts, FAO-WFP teams and the project’s consultative group (comprised of technical representatives from various UN agencies).
• Develop a complete draft of the global NGS methodology considering all inputs received and through several rounds of revision.
• Support the organization of international consultations, for the potential integration of NGS-related indicators in key global school food and nutrition policy assessment and guidance tools/approaches, as well as a series of regional workshops to seek input, revise and promote the uptake of the global NGS methodology.
• Provide inputs to the design and implementation of capacity development strategies directed towards key stakeholders and institutions that will develop, implement and monitor school meal NGS in piloting countries.
• Provide technical support and advise to country teams during the development and piloting of school food/school meal NGS.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING


Minimum Requirements


• University degree in nutrition, public health, food systems or other related fields.
• A minimum of five years of relevant experience in developing nutrition guidelines and standards (including interpretation of individual food consumption, food composition, behavioural, food access and other types of data, setting nutrient/food targets against reference values, meal optimization, etc.) and in the field of school nutrition.
• Working knowledge of English, French or Spanish and limited knowledge of one of the other two or Arabic, Chinese, Russian (for PSA only one language may be required).

FAO Core Competencies


• Results Focus
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Building Effective Relationships
• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Technical/Functional Skills


• Work experience in more than one location or area of work.
• Extent of technical knowledge in the area of food-based nutrition programmes and initiatives.
• Capacity of coordinating technical inputs from different sectors and stakeholders.
• Extent of knowledge in dietary guidelines development and implementation.
• Understanding of FAO policies and programmes is considered a strong asset.
• Familiarity with mathematical diet optimization is considered a strong asset.
• Proven record of publications and/or guidance in the area of school nutrition and dietary guidance.
• Familiarity with food systems science and considerations.

Please note that all candidates should adhere to FAO Values of Commitment to FAO, Respect for All and Integrity and Transparency

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