Child Nutrition and Sustainable Diets Consultant

Position description

How can you make a difference?

Belize is facing a double burden of malnutrition—where undernutrition and obesity are rising side by side, even among children. As a Consultant on Strategic Interventions for Healthy and Sustainable Diets, you will help transform the food environment for school-aged children across the country.

In this role, you will:

• Map key stakeholders shaping Belize’s food and nutrition landscape;
• Identify and assess current child nutrition programmes and enabling systems;
• Lead the development of a national multi-sectoral Theory of Change to promote healthy diets;
• Define UNICEF’s strategic role in this space and identify high-impact opportunities for advocacy, partnership, and resource mobilization.

Your work will directly support national priorities, empower schools, and help shape a healthier future for children.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Nutrition, Public Health, Food Science, or a related field;
• A minimum of 15 years of professional experience in international development cooperation and programme implementation;
• Demonstrated expertise in sustainable diet interventions, preferably with innovative or community-based approaches;
• Proven experience in multi-sectoral coordination, inter-agency cooperation, and joint programming;
• Strong background in strategic partnership development and resource mobilization;
• Experience translating strategic frameworks into practical implementation plans;
• Solid understanding of the nutrition and health funding landscape, including proposal development;
• Excellent communication and analytical skills;
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English;
• Desirable: Fluency in Spanish.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values.

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

• Builds and maintains partnerships;
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness;
• Drive to achieve results for impact;
• Innovates and embraces change;
• Manages ambiguity and complexity;
• Thinks and acts strategically;
• Works collaboratively with others.

Application instructions

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