Applications to be submitted on: www.inductusjobs.com/un (pdf format only)
Position: Nutrition Consultant – Programme Coordination And Evidence Generation
Employing Agency (Employer): Inductus Limited
Duration of the contract: Initial contract will be issued till 31 Dec 2027, and may be further extended, subject to project requirements, satisfactory performance and funding availability.
Remuneration: Gross compensation budgeted for the position is very attractive. Please note that the offer made to the selected candidate shall be commensurate with qualifications, experience, and salary history. Applicants to mention their current professional fee & expected professional fee on www.inductusjobs.com/un
No. of Vacancy: 1 Position (One).
Duty Station: New Delhi.
Reporting Line: (1) Administrative Supervision- Inductus Limited
(2) Technical Supervision: UN ORGANISATION, Nutrition Specialist
Last Date for Application: 29th October 2026 (Mid-Night)
CONTENT OF TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR)
1. Background:
UN ORGANISATION works with governments and partners to support the delivery of essential nutrition interventions. The support is aimed at ensuring that young children, adolescents, and pregnant women, especially the most vulnerable, have access to and utilize gender-responsive quality high nutrition impact interventions and adopt healthy diets and nutritional care practices. It works in close collaboration with government under the national flagship of National Health Mission, POSHAN 2.0 and National Rural Livelihood Mission.
In the ongoing Country Programme Cycle, UN ORGANISATION has identified five key priorities which include (i)Promoting adequate food, food environments and practices in early childhood, especially complementary feeding (ii) Improving timely and early detection of growth failure in young children and pregnant women with a focus on screening and linking to quality counselling (iii) Improving care of low-birth-weight infants and wasting in infants who are under 6 months of age (iv) Improving adolescent nutrition with focus on diets and anemia prevention services and practices and (v) Improving women’s nutrition during pregnancy with a focus on diets and anemia prevention, services and practices . A convergent multisectoral continuum of care and services using community and facilities led platforms drive the nutrition agenda. The priorities are defined by an overarching programme and result framework developed for section.
As part of the ongoing support, UN ORGANISATION nutrition section works on generating and building evidence for childhood nutrition issues through various activities like evidence synthesis, field level studies and documentation. The current consultancy is targeted at supporting the Nutrition section in Delhi on coordinating with partners and state teams for evidence generation activities.
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