Nutrition Project Workplan & MEAL Consultant

About this role

UNICEF is recruiting a national consultant to support co-design of the four-year 2026-2030 workplan, MEAL plan, regional action plans and project inception for the Accelerating Prevention and Management of Child Wasting project in Tanzania. The consultancy sits within Phase II of the UNICEF-Ireland partnership, which supports the Global Action Plan on Child Wasting in six high-burden regions: Pwani, Tanga and Dar es Salaam on the Mainland, and Kaskazini Unguja, Kaskazini Pemba and Mjini Magharibi in Zanzibar. The consultant will review and consolidate the draft workplan and MEAL plan, align them with the four outcomes, results framework indicators and annual targets, and produce a costed four-year plan with milestones, responsibilities and timelines. The work includes facilitating regional planning sessions with council health and nutrition teams to co-design action plans integrated into council plans and budgets.

The consultant will prepare and facilitate validation meetings with the Ministry of Health, PMO-RALG, TFNC, TASAF, the Zanzibar Ministry of Health, RHMTs and CHMTs, and support national and regional inception meetings by documenting agreed actions and responsibilities. Another deliverable is a case study and a two-page learning brief on the co-design and inception process. Candidates must hold an advanced university degree in health, nutrition, monitoring and evaluation or a related field and have at least five years of relevant experience in nutrition or public health programme planning, MEAL and multi-stakeholder facilitation. They must demonstrate experience developing multi-year workplans, results frameworks, indicators, annual targets and MEAL plans, and facilitating participatory planning with national and subnational government stakeholders.

Strong analytical and writing skills and fluency in English and Kiswahili are mandatory. Familiarity with Tanzania’s nutrition policy, planning and coordination context is desirable, along with country-level experience in development, fragile and humanitarian settings. The assignment is a consultancy. UNICEF notes an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Applications are made through UNICEF’s vacancy process, and shortlisted candidates will be contacted.