ICF seeks a Nutrition Specialist to support The DHS Program nutrition portfolio. This is a full-time hybrid position based in Rockville, Maryland.

The DHS Program is a US Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project that collects, analyses, and disseminates high quality data on population, health, HIV, malaria, nutrition and other topics through household-based surveys that can include biomarker data collection and health facility surveys in low- and middle- income countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

The data are widely used by national governments and international institutions across the world. Travel up to 20% of time to low- and middle- income countries may be required

Key Responsibilities

The Nutrition Specialist will provide guidance to The DHS Program on all aspects of nutrition data collection, including nutrition-related biomarkers, leading nutrition research, innovations, capacity strengthening, and participating in global nutrition fora.

Specific duties and responsibilities include :

• Providing leadership in the area of nutrition to meet global and country-specific current and emerging data needs within the context of The DHS Program
• Supporting and guiding the improvement of The DHS Program tools, protocols, and reporting related to nutrition, and working to incorporate innovations that improve efficiency and data quality
• Providing training support and / or guidance for nutrition data collection, including dietary data, nutrition intervention coverage, biomarkers (e.

g., anthropometry, anemia, and micronutrient biomarkers), and food fortification coverage

• Supporting capacity strengthening for analysis, interpretation, and communication of nutrition data
• Conducting nutrition research on data quality, innovations, and policy-level priorities with in-country partners
• Promoting tools for communicating available nutrition-related data, analyses, modules, and / or outputs to national-level and global-level stakeholders
• Participating in global nutrition technical and reference meetings

Required Qualifications (must haves)

• Masters, Ph.D. or other doctoral degree in Nutrition, Public Health, or related field
• 3 years of global experience in nutrition data collection, analysis, and interpretation and / or in using data to identify and meet nutrition program monitoring and evaluation needs and contributing to policy in low- and middle- income countries
• 3 years’ experience with the global nutrition community including knowledge of current global nutrition protocols, standards, and best practices
• 2 years’ experience with household-based, non-clinical nutrition data collection protocols
• 3 years’ experience with quantitative statistical software (e.g., STATA, R) and statistical techniques e.g., multivariate methods
• 3 years’ professional writing experience in English; including academic and / or research publications, and / or report writing

Preferred Qualifications (nice to have)

• 2 years’ experience living or working in a low- or middle-income country
• Proficiency in spoken and written French or Spanish
• 1 years’ experience with qualitative research methods
• 1 years’ field experience in implementing population surveys in low-middle-income countries
• 1 years’ experience working with USAID, other bilateral donors, or international agencies
• Excellent communication, training, and presentation skills
• Ability to work successfully in teams and with people of diverse cultural backgrounds

Last updated : 2024-05-24