We are looking for

Are you an experienced professional, keen to contribute to healthier and more sustainable diets through food system transformations in Low and Middle Income Countries? This position as Food and Nutrition Security Advisor at Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation might be something for you.

Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI),  is the international expertise and capacity development business unit of Wageningen University & Research. Our domain of work is food and ecosystems transformation in the Global South. Our work portfolio contains short-term and longer-term assignments and projects, focusing on identifying, contextualizing and applying knowledge into projects and reflecting and recombining experiences into new knowledge. In addition we actively work on capacity development, facilitating training and learning trajectories. In our work we closely collaborate with partners mainly in Africa, the MENA region, and Asia and to a lesser extend Latin America. Our partners include governments, knowledge institutes, NGOs and CSOs and private sector.

In your role as Food and Nutrition Security Advisor you will have the opportunity to get involved in a variety of projects, in which your role might differ (e.g. from advisor to trainer to project manager) and in which you might have to deal with a variety of sub-topics from the FNS agenda. Your work may require visits to our partners and projects in the mentioned regions.

The selected candidate is a development practitioner who is able to work in multi-and transdisciplinary teams, both with other advisors from WCDI and WUR and with team members from our partners. You  should be able to link theory and practice, and have a specific interest in individual, organisational, and network capacity development as part of your professional activities.

We ask

• MSc or PhD degree in Social Sciences; Public Health, Human Nutrition, International Development or related fields;
• A minimum of five years of relevant work experience, with at least two years of work experience in Africa, Asia or Latin America, including advisory work and knowledge development;
• Experience in (the transformation of) agri-food sectors, in particular with a view on nutrition and food security outcomes;
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written, including the ability to work effectively with people from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds;
• Entrepreneurial, and result oriented, with the ability to work in a variety of teams as well as work in an environment with a high degree of self-management;
• Excellent English proficiency (a minimum of CEFR C1 level). For more information about this proficiency level, please visit our special language page.
• Willingness to travel and adaptability (moving from in-person to online formats as necessary).
• Proficiency in French or another language is an added value

For more information, and to apply for this position, please see the full job anouncement. Closing date for applications in 29 September 2022.