Global Roster - Global Nutrition & Emergency Nutrition Technical Expert

World Vision · Global

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With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Please submit your Cover Letter and CV in English.

Please note: Our Global Technical Expertise Roster connects skilled professionals with opportunities to support humanitarian responses and long-term development programmes. Through the roster, we mobilise technical expertise to help protect lives, strengthen communities and contribute to sustainable recovery and development. 

By applying to join the roster, you are expressing an interest in being considered for future positions, deployments or consultancy opportunities linked to humanitarian responses, development programmes and donor-funded initiatives. 

Joining the roster does not constitute an offer of employment or guarantee an immediate opportunity. It means that your technical expertise may be considered, and you may be contacted when a suitable opportunity becomes available. 

As this is not recruitment for a current vacancy, the review and selection process may take longer, particularly where there is no immediate opportunity linked to the roster advertisement.

Here's where you come in:

World Vision International maintains a roster of qualified specialists to provide flexible, on-demand technical assistance for nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programming across development, fragile and humanitarian settings. Specialists support World Vision offices, governments and partners to assess nutrition needs, design and strengthen high-quality programmes, respond to emergencies, and generate actionable evidence. Assignments are matched to each consultant’s demonstrated technical expertise and specific terms of reference.

Key Responsibilities

Global nutrition programming and systems strengthening

• Provide assignment-specific technical advice for programme design, implementation, costing, monitoring, evaluation and adaptation.
• Support maternal, infant, young child, adolescent and women’s nutrition, micronutrient interventions, food systems and fortification, social behaviour change programming, food-based approaches, and nutrition-sensitive programming for prevention and treatment of undernutrition.
• Strengthen integration of nutrition within health systems, agriculture, food systems, social protection and other multisectoral platforms.
• Contribute to nutrition policy, governance, financing, investment cases, advocacy and resource mobilization; prepare technical inputs to proposals, budgets and donor reports.
• Develop technical guidance, training materials, operational tools and knowledge products; mentor World Vision staff, government counterparts and community partners.

Emergency nutrition preparedness and response

• Support rapid nutrition assessments and evidence-based response strategies for disasters, conflict, displacement and disease outbreaks.
• Design, adapt and provide technical oversight for community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), including outpatient and inpatient care, and targeted or blanket supplementary feeding as appropriate.
• Provide technical guidance on infant and young child feeding in emergencies (IYCF-E), breastfeeding protection, micronutrient interventions and links to food assistance.
• Strengthen emergency nutrition surveillance, monitoring, situation reporting and coordination in line with Sphere standards and applicable humanitarian guidance.
• Represent World Vision in government, nutrition cluster/sector and inter-agency coordination mechanisms; support response proposals, logframes, budgets and after-action reviews.

Nutrition assessment, analysis and evidence

• Design, conduct or supervise population-based nutrition assessments, including SMART, coverage and IYCF surveys, as relevant to the assignment.
• Conduct or support qualitative and causal assessments, including KAP studies, Barrier Analysis, Link NCA and Cost of Diet analyses.
• Develop protocols, sampling frames and data-collection tools; train and supervise enumerators and manage field survey quality assurance.
• Oversee data cleaning and analysis of anthropometric indices, prevalence estimates and confidence intervals; interpret routine data from HMIS/DHIS2 and other surveillance systems.
• Produce clear assessment reports and actionable recommendations; communicate findings to programmes, governments, donors and coordination partners.

Cross-cutting accountabilities

• Integrate gender equality, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), disability inclusion, child protection and safeguarding considerations throughout assignments.
• Manage agreed deliverables, budgets, timelines and field logistics, and provide timely progress updates.
• Ensure technical work aligns with relevant national protocols, international standards and World Vision policies.

Areas of Technical Expertise for Roster Matching

Applicants may identify one or more areas of demonstrated specialization:

• Multisectoral nutrition, health and food systems strengthening; nutrition-sensitive agriculture and social protection
• Maternal, infant and young child nutrition; adolescent and women’s nutrition; micronutrients and fortification; food-based approaches; nutrition social behaviour change programming; Positive Deviance/Hearth (PDH)
• Nutrition policy, governance, financing, investment cases, implementation research and programme evaluation
• Emergency nutrition, CMAM, IYCF-E, supplementary feeding, humanitarian coordination and surge response
• Nutrition surveys, SMART/coverage/IYCF assessments, qualitative and causal analysis, and Cost of Diet
• Nutrition information systems, HMIS/DHIS2, surveillance, data quality and statistical analysis
• Gender equality and social inclusion; private-sector engagement and capacity strengthening

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Advanced university degree in nutrition, public health, epidemiology, statistics, food science, development studies or a related field; a bachelor’s degree with substantial additional relevant experience may be considered for appropriate assignments.
• Typically at least 5 years of progressive experience in nutrition or nutrition-sensitive programming for global technical assistance assignments; emergency nutrition and assessment-focused assignments may consider candidates with at least 5 years of directly relevant experience.
• Demonstrated technical depth and successful deliverables in at least one roster specialty, such as programme designs, assessment reports, evaluations, publications or guidance materials.
• Relevant experience in low- and middle-income countries, working with governments, international NGOs, multilateral organizations, local partners and/or donors.
• Strong analytical, technical writing, communication, cross-cultural collaboration and project management skills.
• For emergency deployments: demonstrated humanitarian experience, familiarity with Sphere and applicable IYCF-E guidance, and ability to work in rapidly changing or hardship settings.
• For survey assignments: relevant training and experience in population-based survey design, implementation, quality assurance and analysis.
• Professional proficiency in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and/or Arabic as required by the assignment.

Additional Requirements for only Specialized SMART Survey Assignments

For the dedicated SMART survey roster track, applicants must document at least five validated SMART surveys and five SMART consultancy assignments, with reports available for review; SMART training certification with distinction; and recommendation letters from at least two organizations where they managed SMART surveys. Consultants engaged specifically as SMART capacity-building trainers must hold SMART Master Trainer certification and have facilitated at least one SMART training.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous short-term consultancy or roster assignments with UN agencies, international NGOs, Global Nutrition Cluster, or comparable technical assistance networks.
• SMART/ENA for SMART certification or equivalent specialized assessment training, where relevant.
• Experience mentoring national staff and delivering remote or field-based technical assistance under tight deadlines.
• Familiarity with World Vision programming approaches, Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs systems, Christian identity and mission.

Core Competencies

• Commitment to World Vision’s Christian identity, mission, values and Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy.
• Sound independent judgment, professionalism, adaptability and ability to deliver quality results under pressure.
• Strong partnership-building, cultural sensitivity, teamwork and ability to translate evidence into practical recommendations.

Roster and Deployment Terms

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, with reference checks and screening before roster validation. Roster participation is subject to annual renewal.
• Roster inclusion does not guarantee an assignment; consultants are selected against assignment-specific terms of reference and World Vision retains final hiring decisions.
• Assignment lengths vary by scope, typically 2–8 weeks for general technical assistance, 3–6 weeks for assessment work and 4–12 weeks for emergency deployment, with possible extensions.
• For rapid-response assignments, pre-vetted deployable consultants may be expected to mobilize within 72 hours of activation and travel to insecure, fragile or hardship-designated settings.

Application Process

Interested specialists should submit a CV, cover letter and summary of technical expertise. Candidates applying for assessment or SMART-focused assignments should also provide relevant survey/assessment reports, applicable training certificates and professional references.

Consultancy Arrangements

• Consultants selected for inclusion in World Vision International's Nutrition Consultant Roster will be engaged on an as-needed basis, depending on organizational priorities, technical assistance requirements, and available funding. Inclusion in the roster does not guarantee consultancy assignments or employment with World Vision International.
• Consultants will be contacted when opportunities arise that align with their areas of technical expertise, relevant experience, and availability. Each consultancy assignment will be governed by a separate Terms of Reference (TOR) outlining the scope of work, expected deliverables, timelines, reporting arrangements, and agreed remuneration.
• Assignments may be conducted remotely, in-country, or through a combination of both, depending on the nature and requirements of the consultancy. All consultants will be expected to comply with World Vision International's safeguarding policies, ethical standards, confidentiality requirements, and applicable procurement and consultancy procedures throughout their engagement.

Applicant Types Accepted:

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organisation with a mission centred on following Jesus Christ in service to the world´s most vulnerable children. Therefore, in all locations to the fullest extent legally permissible, the successful applicant will affirm our core documents, observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, serve at a high level of professional ethics and strive to act in accordance with cultural sensitivities. Furthermore, regular attendance with team and office devotions, chapel and prayer gatherings are expected in line with policies in the World Vision host location and its departments.

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