Job Specifications
Fixed Term Contract – 12 months
Full Time or Part Time
Hybrid - Farringdon, London/Home-based
Closing Date: 22 February 2026
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Save the Children UK is looking for a specialist in wasting treatment and prevention programming to join us as a Senior Nutrition Adviser (maternity cover) in our Hunger, Nutrition & Livelihoods team within our Global Impact group. In this role, you will provide high-level technical leadership, supporting both ongoing programmes and new innovations, guiding the strategic direction and quality of nutrition programmes, and working with country offices to deliver high-quality, evidence-based interventions that improve outcomes for children globally.
About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
About The Team
Working as part of the Global Impact group, our Global Outcomes function catalyses positive change for children by driving influencing agendas and bringing knowledge, evidence, analysis and expertise to our partnerships, programmes and advocacy work.
The Hunger, Nutrition & Livelihoods Team works as part of the Global Save the Children movement and the wider sector to drive long lasting systems changes at the global and country levels. We are committed to promoting inclusive and equitable solutions, amplifying the voices of children most affected by inequality, and prioritising locally led efforts for lasting change.
About The Role
The Senior Nutrition Adviser is an exciting position leading Save the Children UK's work on the prevention and treatment of child wasting/acute malnutrition, providing leadership across the movement on complex assignments and projects, and contributing to overall strategy and policies. You will provide expert technical guidance to drive impactful programme design and evidence generation, and to policy and advocacy goals on child wasting / acute malnutrition. You will build and maintain strategic relationships with key decision-makers and partners, lead capacity strengthening for colleagues and partners, and champion equality, inclusion and the shifting power agenda.
In this role, you will:
Provide senior technical leadership on the prevention and treatment of child wasting / acute malnutrition, supporting high-quality programme design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and learning across country offices and the wider movement
Ensure nutrition strategies and programmes are informed by the latest research, scientific evidence and learning, and that this evidence is effectively translated into policy and practice
Deliver high-level, tailored technical support to country offices managing complex nutrition programmes, both remotely and through in-country engagement
Lead the development, adaptation and use of evidence-based nutrition standards, guidance, tools and technical positions aligned with global best practice
Support the design and delivery of large-scale, high-impact nutrition programmes, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy, national policies and international standards
Represent Save the Children as a technical expert on child wasting and nutrition in global forums, technical working groups, partnerships and sector networks
Build and sustain strong relationships with donors, academic institutions, research partners and technical agencies to strengthen learning, influence and impact
Contribute to resource mobilisation through donor engagement, development of high-quality concept notes and funding proposals, and support to partnership strategies
Strengthen collaboration, innovation and learning across multidisciplinary teams and technical communities of practice
Build organisational nutrition capacity through mentoring, coaching and inclusive leadership, championing equality, inclusion and impact in all aspects of the work
About You
To be successful, it is important that you have:
Significant experience in programming and evidence generation on the treatment of child wasting
Experience working on the prevention of child wasting, including good understanding of the issue of post-treatment relapse
Substantial experience designing, leading and managing large-scale nutrition programmes in an international development context, including the treatment and prevention of child wasting
Awareness and ideally experience of approaches for the economic evaluation of prevention and treatment of child wasting / acute malnutrition
Able to strengthen evidence and learning uptake through analysis and collaboration
Able to support development of strategies to influence key stakeholders (partner