Job Title: Senior Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Consultant
Organization: Fair and Sustainable Ethiopia(F&S)
Place of work: Addis Ababa, with frequent field travel
Type of employment: Consultancy level part time
Payment & Benefits: Negotiable
Application deadline: 10th December 2025
About F&S
Fair & Sustainable Consulting (F&S) https://fairandsustainable.org/ is an international consultancy company, established in 2010 with offices in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Nairobi (Kenya) and Utrecht (The Netherlands). F&S envisions a world in which people in developing countries have a decent income and sustainable livelihoods. F&S advises partners on how to create sustainable economic opportunities for people in developing countries and offer advice and support through a number of services, with core services including Gender and Nutrition integrations, Market Systems Development, youth employment and entrepreneurship, inclusive rural finance, gender in value chains, and external evaluation and Program Management. Particularly, F&S is well acquainted with ensuring all our work and project outputs are aligned with the local context.
F&S has partnered with Tanager under the project “Impacting Gender and Nutrition through Innovative Technical Exchange in Agriculture Plus (IGNITE+).” F&S plays a leading role in providing technical advisory services to strengthen African institutions’ ability to integrate gender and nutrition into their way of doing business and their agriculture interventions. Hence, F&S is looking for a part time consultant with a high level of technical capacity in designing and execution of Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture activities for organizations under the IGNITE+ project.
Position Summary
The Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Consultant will be a technical lead, coach and mentor, relationship manager, facilitator, technical writer, and a thought leader on nutrition integration in agriculture. You will lead the design and delivery of technical services to Nutrition and Agriculture related engagements F&S executes at institutional and smallholder farmer levels.
The Nutrition consultant will closely work with F&S and IGNITE+ teams and project clients, and plays a lead role to design, implement, and monitor gender-integrated agriculture activities, interventions and business models. The consultant will also provide thought leadership on the development/ updating of tools and resources, contribute/lead the design and development of learning products that will facilitate the integration of nutrition into agriculture interventions and institutions’ way of doing business.
The Nutrition consultant will report to F&S Ethiopia General Manager and closely work with Project technical team members.
About You
Required Education & Technical Skills
- Master’s degree/PhD in Nutrition, Food Security, Rural Development, or related field with relevant work experience in a combination of disciplines in nutrition, agriculture, public health, development studies, or other relevant disciplines around the nexus of agriculture, nutrition, and gender.
- Experience in consultancy work with international organizations. This includes project design, training manual development and training facilitations.
Professional Experience
- Master’s degree/PhD with at least 8 years’ work experience in a combination of disciplines in nutrition, agriculture, public health, development studies, or other relevant disciplines around the nexus of agriculture, nutrition, and gender.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in consultancy facilitating training on nutrition-sensitive agriculture, leading nutrition analysis, and identifying nutrition-sensitive and SBC interventions for agriculture programs or organizations; designing and implementing tools and approaches to support institutions in integrating nutrition in their agriculture work.
- Demonstrated experience in offering technical assistance or advisory services in the agriculture sector and with a focus on nutrition promotion.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and proven successful ability to design and conduct training and workshops and lead interviews, focus groups, and other formative research methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to develop evidence-based recommendations and interventions to achieve nutrition outcomes in agriculture.
- Demonstrated knowledge of social and behaviour change communication theory and techniques.
- Understanding of gender-integrated agriculture concepts in Ethiopia and ability to integrate a gender lens into nutrition- sensitive approaches.
Key competencies
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills required.
- Excellent partner relationship and management skills.
- Ability to build relationships and rapport with teams, staff, and partners and navigate challenging or unexpected circumstances with creativity, calm, and positivity.
- Ability to communicate effectively with persons on all levels both inside and outside the company on issues that could be complex or sensitive in nature.
- Adaptable and innovative.
- Collaborative and open to feedback. Able to work independently and in a team setting.
- Strong analytical skills, including ability to gather and analyse a variety of information pertaining to issues and to develop appropriate recommendations for action.
- Strong written communication skills, including demonstrated ability to write required documents in a clear, concise, well-organized manner.
- Advanced computer skills in a Windows based environment including Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Fluency in English, written and oral, is required.
- Travel both local and international is expected.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and execution of nutrition programs and interventions in line with project objectives.
- Provide technical expertise in nutrition, ensuring projects align with global and national nutrition standards and frameworks.
- Develop and deliver training materials and workshops for project staff, stakeholders, and beneficiaries.
- Build the capacity of local partners and organizations on nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions.
- Analyze data and provide evidence-based recommendations for program improvements.
- Develop monitoring and evaluation frameworks for nutrition programs.
- Track project outcomes, impact, and lessons learned to inform future interventions.
- Collaborate with government agencies, NGOs, donors, and other stakeholders to strengthen nutrition initiatives.
- Represent the organization in forums, conferences, and meetings related to nutrition and food security.
How to Apply?
If you feel motivated and qualified for the position, please send your updated Resume and Cover Letter to the following email address before December 10, 2025, 5:00 PM East Africa Time.
Hiwot Admasu: hiwot.admasu@fairandsustainable.nl
