Nutrition Expert

Job Description

Title: Nutrition Expert

Company Name: Friendship

Vacancy: 1

Age: 30 to 40 years

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

Published: 2026-09-06

Application Deadline: 2026-09-13

Education:

Requirements:

Skills Required:

Additional Requirements:

• Age 30 to 40 years

Role Profile:

Reporting to the Nutrition Manager – Nutrition, the Nutrition Expert will oversee and be responsible for the technical performance of integrated nutrition facilities of the INI and IMCN program in Cox’s Bazar. He/she will oversee technical development and implementation of CMAM/CMAMI/OTP/TSFP/BSFP/IYCF-E and outreach components of the program, as well as ensuring strict adherence to donor proposal and standard protocol. The Nutrition Expert will work closely with the Nutrition Manager and nutrition staff at the field level. S/He will oversee all program staff at the Nutrition sites in camp and host community program for all technical aspects. S/He will also take part in the development of nutrition project proposals, concept notes, and budgets. S/He will also attend nutrition coordination meetings at the field, nutrition sector, govt., donor, and other stakeholder levels in relation to the program need.

Responsibilities:

• Support Nutrition Manager in the development of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive proposals, concept notes, and budgets both for camp and host programs.

• Oversee the quality of CMAM/CMAMI/OTP/TSFP/BSFP/IYCF-E/Outreach components at the camp and host community level as per project design.

• Monitor the delivery of the nutrition services as prescribed in the project proposal, including mainstreaming cross-cutting issues, for example, gender, PSEA, CP, inclusion, and accountability

• Identify training and capacity building needs for frontline staff and lead in preparation for and/or facilitation of the sessions as needed

• Mentor and coach the nutrition team on the program protocol and provide supportive supervision through OJT on service components and the cross-cutting themes relevant to the project.

• Represent Friendship in relevant camp-level coordination forums along with partners.

• Support the Nutrition Manager to timely prepare and submit high-quality monthly, quarterly reports and other ad-hoc reports, factsheets, and newsletters (quantitative and qualitative) as required.  

• Work in collaboration with the MEAL and documentation team to ensure that adequate resources and systems are in place to capture and document best practices and lessons learned by the implementing project.

• Support and ensure that facility staff are maintaining standard tools/formats/documents as per agreement and project requirements.

• Regularly assess service quality and provide feedback and recommendations to the Nutrition Manager, as well as field staff.

• Work in collaboration with the MEAL and documentation team to ensure that team members are well oriented and practicing the M&E plan, learning and development procedure, and their roles in knowledge management.

• Ensure that project learning, including achievements and bottlenecks, is shared with internal stakeholders upon management and donor review.

• Review monitoring findings of the project on a regular basis and initiate necessary actions for the improvement of the programme in consultation with management and donor agencies.

• Work with Nutrition Sector in Cox’s Bazar and act as co-lead in CMAM TWG and support other TWGs.

• Maintain good coordination with both external and internal stakeholders to ensure smooth implementation of harmonized technical standards and guidelines from donors/NS.

• Facilitate cross-learning, sharing, synthesis, documentation, and sharing of experience.

• Monitor and support supervision of the nutrition team through OJT at field level to ensure that the service quality standards are on track.

• Work with the MEAL team on beneficiary databases and reporting tools, for smooth service delivery.

• Ensure frequent and quality monitoring with the Nutrition Manager.

Skills and Competencies:

Educational / Professional Background:  

• Master’s degree in nutrition from any reputed university (Master with bachelor’s degree in nutrition will add extra value).

• Around 3 years’ progressive experience in Community nutrition programmes in a similar/relevant position (For highly technical candidates, experience is considerable).

• Technical knowledge of Community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) and IYCF programming.                        

Required Competences & Skills:

• Proactive with an ability to think analytically, identifying opportunities and mechanisms to broaden programming.

• Excellent planning and organizational skills.

• Knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

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Please note that applications via any other method will not be considered.

“FRIENDSHIP is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults, and employees, Donors, visiting Doctors, visiting Journalists, visitors, beneficiaries, including communities where we work and volunteers/interns. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure fully include background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding. 

FRIENDSHIP is an equal opportunity employer and will do everything possible to ensure that those who are suitable to work within our values and beliefs are recruited to work for us. Any personal persuasion will result in a disqualification of candidature”.

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