🚀 Nutrition Intern

Location

Multi-location from our Belfast office, or home based in the UK.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not overseas.

Travel across the UK and ROI will be required on an occasional basis, possibly with overnight stays.

About the job

Job summary

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in Northern Ireland acts as a microcosm for the wider Agency, providing all of the same services specifically for the benefit of Northern Ireland. As well as these responsibilities, the team looks after additional devolved areas including the delivery of aspects regarding both nutrition and dietary health policy.

Our aim is to improve nutrition for consumers in Northern Ireland by enabling healthy food choices by making healthier mainstream food products readily available and through the improving of knowledge and understanding amongst the general public.

We are looking to hire a Nutrition Intern who can work alongside the Dietary Health team, gaining experience in a number of policy areas including nutrition surveillance, nutrition standards and food poverty, as well as projects such as Calorie Wise and the Making Food Better programme.

This is a fantastic opportunity to get first-hand experience in the country's leading food regulator, and to learn more about how the government seeks to monitor and develop nutritional aspects of its food policy, as well as how it offers guidance to consumers.

Job description

Working with colleagues, the successful candidate will undertake a wide variety of tasks from analysing nutrition-related reports to creating content and resources. You'll help to organise and participate in internal and external meetings as well as working to help put together the annual All Island Food Poverty Conference. There will be opportunities to attend seminars, workshops and events, and to meet with and work alongside colleagues from across the Agency.

If you are a strong communicator who is excited to take the opportunity to work within the FSA and make the most out of it, apply today for this exciting internship opportunity.

For further information and to submit your application, click the apply icon.

This post is a temporary 12-month Fixed Term appointment.

Apply before 11:55 pm on Wednesday 29th October 2025