Nutrition Analyst Level I

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

6 September 2026-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)

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WHY JOIN WFP? 

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

Job Title: Nutrition Analyst
Type of Contract: Regular Consultant (CST) Level 1
Division: Nutrition, School Meals and Social Protection (PRGS)
Duty Station (City, Country): HQ, Rome Italy
Duration: 11 months

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is one of the leading global institutions helping to measure and alleviate food insecurity and malnutrition, particularly in humanitarian settings and fragile contexts. Persistent nutrient gaps, rising food prices, and constrained household purchasing power continue to limit access to healthy and sustainable diets, particularly for vulnerable populations. Operating in more than 80 countries, WFP supports both emergency response and national systems to improve access to healthy, nutritious diets in women, children and the population at large. A key part of this work is the generation and use of data on food and nutrition security, dietary diversity and access to nutritious foods and nutritious diets, including food costs and expenditure to identify risks and inform nutrition interventions. A core pillar of this work is WFP’s analytical platform Enhance, developed in partnership with the Zero Hunger Lab at Tilburg University, Capgemini, and Johns Hopkins University. Using multi‑objective optimisation, Enhance assesses the cost and affordability of diets that meet nutritional, economic, and environmental objectives, and supports scenario and intervention modelling to inform evidence‑based decision‑making.

Evidence generated through analytics plays a critical role in shaping nutrition-sensitive policies, programmes and advocacy across food systems, education, and social protection. Robust standardised analytical approaches can s