The Consultant, India (Assam State), will provide in-country technical support in multisectoral nutrition programming to a USAID Advancing Nutrition activity assessment and work planning exercise, and will be part of a scoping team consisting of a team lead, other technical specialists, and program support. The ideal candidate will have:

• Master’s degree in public health, nutrition, agriculture, rural development, economics, or related field; or equivalent degree with 5+ years of multi-sectoral nutrition work experience
• Experience designing multi-sectoral nutrition projects, especially those funded by USAID, and developing work plans
• Extensive knowledge of Indian government and non-government systems and stakeholders in multi-sectoral nutrition programming
• Experience navigating Indian national-level and state-level policy development, planning, financing, and M&E systems
• Strong experience with private sector engagement and, specifically, with leveraging private sector Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) support per India’s CSR policies
• Knowledge of effective approaches for public and private sector partnership development, with proven experience of this in India (and, ideally, in Assam)
• Experience developing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems
• Knowledge of multi-sectoral nutrition programming, especially in multi-sectoral nutrition-sensitive agriculture programming (aquaculture preferred)
• Knowledge of USAID India, especially programming in Assam
• Experience conducting key informant interviews and facilitating workshops

If you're interested, please submit your resume to jobs@advancingnutrition.org and include the title of this consultancy in the subject line.