National Consultant - Child Wasting Project Workplan and MEAL Co-design

About the role

Tanzania is part of Phase II (2026-2030) of the UNICEF-Ireland partnership to accelerate the Global Action Plan on Child Wasting. The Accelerating Prevention and Management of Child Wasting project covers six regions and focuses on nutrition-responsive social protection, prevention and treatment of child wasting, maternal nutrition and infant and young child feeding. UNICEF is seeking a national consultant to co-design the four-year project workplan and MEAL plan, region-specific action plans and to support project inception with the Government and partners.

Key responsibilities

• Review, consolidate and finalize the draft project workplan and MEAL plan, aligned with the project scope, four outcomes and the results framework.
• Support the six target regions and their councils to co-design region-specific action plans integrated into council plans and budgets.
• Facilitate validation of the workplan, MEAL plan and regional action plans with stakeholders such as MoH, PMO-RALG, TFNC, TASAF and the Zanzibar Ministry of Health.
• Support national and regional project inception meetings and document agreed actions and responsibilities.
• Document the co-design and inception process in a case study and a two-page learning brief.

Required profile

• Advanced university degree in health, nutrition, monitoring and evaluation or a related field.
• At least five years of relevant experience in nutrition or public health programme planning, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning, and multi-stakeholder facilitation.
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili.
• Experience at country level, especially in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

Required skills

• Nutrition or public health programme planning, including multi-year workplans, results frameworks, indicators, annual targets and MEAL plans.
• Participatory planning with national and subnational government stakeholders.
• Stakeholder validation and project inception meetings, and documentation of agreed actions and timelines.
• Analytical and writing skills, including case studies and learning briefs; familiarity with Tanzania's nutrition policy context is desirable.