Safefood is an implementation body set up under the British-Irish Agreement with responsibility on an all-island basis for promotion of food safety and healthy eating, research and fostering scientific co-operation.

This role assists Safefood’s Director of Nutrition in carrying out our nutrition functions. These currently include contributing to policy development and implementation, research, community nutrition, professional networks and communications.

Activities will include engaging with multidisciplinary stakeholders on an all-island basis, identifying research needs, providing nutrition guidance to initiatives and campaigns, translating scientific information into best practice for enabling and promoting healthy eating, independent assessment and evaluation of initiatives, developing and maintaining professional networks, working in collaboration with external agencies and acting as a media spokesperson on nutrition for Safefood.