Child Nutrition and Development Specialist

About this role

UNICEF Tanzania is recruiting a National UN Volunteer Child Nutrition and Development Specialist to strengthen its Child Nutrition and Development Programme in Zanzibar. The assignment supports the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar and national and subnational authorities to improve maternal, infant, young child and adolescent nutrition and early childhood development through systems strengthening, multisectoral coordination and evidence-based programme support. The specialist will help operationalize the Zanzibar Multisectoral Nutrition Strategic Action Plan 2024/25-2028/29 and the Zanzibar Multisectoral Early Childhood Development Programme 2026/27-2030/31. The postholder will provide technical, strategic, coordination, monitoring and documentation support across Unguja and Pemba.

Core work includes maternal nutrition through antenatal and postnatal care and community platforms, multiple micronutrient supplementation scale-up, infant and young child feeding and responsive caregiving counselling, and integration of early stimulation and nurturing care into health, community and parenting platforms. The specialist will also support adolescent nutrition, wasting prevention and treatment, food environment and fortification, nutrition-sensitive WASH and climate-related interventions, plus programme quality assurance, partner reporting, data use and knowledge management. Candidates should have experience in nutrition, public health nutrition, maternal, infant, young child and adolescent nutrition, community or multisectoral nutrition, or early childhood development programming. Demonstrated technical support for programme design, implementation, monitoring, quality assurance and reporting at national or subnational level is required.

Preferred experience includes gender equality and shared caregiving in nutrition or ECD programming, working with government, UN agencies, NGOs or communities, and monitoring, documentation or data use. Strong planning, coordination, analytical, writing and stakeholder engagement skills are needed, with regular field travel in Zanzibar. The National UN Volunteer will be based in Zanzibar, supervised by the Chief of the Zanzibar Field Office with matrix management from the Chief of Child Nutrition and Development. UNICEF supports child health, nutrition, WASH, education and protection in 190 countries and territories.

Compensation, benefits, application instructions and a closing date are not stated.