The Ugandan Jobline

• Support Social Behaviour Change Communication activities across a
  variety of WFP contexts:
• Support the country office to design, implement, and monitor Social
  Behaviour Change Communication activities in Moderate Acute Malnutrition
  (MAM) programming
• Ensure successful implementation of the WFP Social Behaviour Change
  Communication guidance manual in select focus countries
• Develop Social Behaviour Change Communication strategy for WFP
  Uganda country office
• Provide Social Behaviour Change Communication and nutrition
  technical advice to the country offices:
• Give technical input to country offices related to Social Behaviour
  Change Communication and design/implementation of nutrition programmes
• Collect technical inputs and lessons learned from area and field
  offices for improving the WFP programme implementation
• Provide technical support in development and emergency contexts,
  with emphasis on acute malnutrition programming
• Support social behaviour change communication-related capacity
  strengthening activities at both WFP co and decentralized levels:
• Work with programme unit to design and deliver social behaviour
  change communication-related capacity-strengthening activities
• Collaborate with WFP hq and external partners to develop learning
  activities related to Social Behaviour Change Communication for nutrition
• Monitor and stay up to date with public health nutrition and Social
  Behaviour Change Communication landscape, emerging evidence, and global
  discussions on these topics:
• Stay current on emerging scientific evidence in Social Behaviour
  Change Communication nationally and globally
• Support a system for critically assessing Social Behaviour Change
  Communication and nutrition evidence for sharing internally in WFP and
  other partners
• Stay active in the Social Behaviour Change Communication communities
  and government technical working groups
• Provide input and relevant support for operational research
  activities involving Social Behaviour Change Communication for nutrition
• Liaise with the knowledge management team to identify social
  behaviour change communication-related operational research opportunities
• Support robust monitoring or evidence generation in the field and
  data management, analysis, interpretation and dissemination
• Support grant writing, manuscript preparation, and case study
  development
• Support the nutrition-specific unit work plan with other relevant
  activities as needed, on a continual basis
• Provide input for and review briefs/presentations for WFP management
• Short communications and technical notes
• Brown bag/journal club presentations
• Support any other duties in nutrition unit as may be provided by the
  supervisor

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme
  (WFP) Programme Policy Officer (Social Behaviour Change Communication job
  placement should hold an advanced university degree in social behaviour
  science, public health, nutrition, food technology, medicine, medical
  anthropology;
• A minimum of five (5) years post graduate relevant experience
  working in public health, food security, nutrition, health systems
  strengthening and any other relevant university degree (e.g. Medical
  anthropology)
• Experience working in developing countries and building partnerships
  with sectors of health, nutrition, food security, and local non-governmental
  organisations
• Experience working and managing projects in the field including
  demonstrable partnership and management experience
• Experience writing proposals and reports
• Has gained experience in implementing technical programs (i.e.
  nutrition, etc.).
• Has implemented programmes and provided input into designing
  operations.
• Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions.

• Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance: Demonstrates ability to identify key
  variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and
  programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or
  re-design.
• Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher): Demonstrates ability to analyse and
  consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different
  sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and
  programme development.
• Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.): Demonstrates the ability to interpret
  basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to
  technical programme design, implementation and monitoring.
• Emergency Programming: Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development,
  implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes.
• Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government: Develops thorough recommendations using
  multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to
  strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and
  nutrition security programmes.

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