Programme Implementation

• Provide overall project management support to the school feeding programme to ensure various activities are performed within the established targets, implementation guidelines and SoPs.
• Regularly monitor, update and track data related to school feeding programme issues, commodity pipelines, follow the timely delivery of commodities and distributions to ensure effective implementation of the programme.
• Provide intensive support to districts and schools in preparing plans, project implementation, facilitating food procurement process and ensure the delivery of food commodities and provision of Non-Food Items on time.
• Coach and support School Management Committees (SMCs), head teachers and community members to ensure the cash transferred to HGSF is being utilized for the intended purpose as per the agreed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and SOPs.
• Prepare and compile detailed monthly and quarterly school feeding reports describing project activities, disaggregated by age and gender, and ensure timely submission to WFP SO and CO school feeding unit.
• Ensure community participation in all school feeding activities to assure local ownership.
• Undertake data entry into COMET in a timely manner.

Troubleshooting and Capacity Strengthening

• Act as a point of contact for resolution of a range of operational queries and problems related to school feeding within the geographic area of responsibility.
• Escalate issues for resolution to SO, CO or the district level authorities for timely corrective action.
• Identify HGSF capacity gaps in the operational area and facilitate training sessions and knowledge management.

Coordination and Collaboration

• Serve as the focal point for strengthening district level coordination with cooperating partners, government counterparts, delivery partners, other school feeding and complementary partners.
• Identify at the district level, areas of collaboration and synergies with other actors for more effective HGSF programming.
• Work in close collaboration with WFP’s Asset Creation and other local actors to enhance the capacity of smallholder farmers to produce and supply nutritious and quality fresh foods (fresh vegetables, Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato) to HGSF.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Periodically collect and analyze data related to HGSF programming through field visits and identify challenges and resolution mechanisms, either immediate, short or long term.
• Facilitate and proactively lead internal school feeding programme monitoring in collaboration with government counterparts, and support donor visits. 
• Perform additional duties, as required by the supervisor.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education Undergraduate degree in social sciences, education, development economics or relevant field

Experience At least five years of relevant professional experience in programme design and implementation in School Feeding and/or cash-based activities or local procurement components

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
•  Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people’s skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
•  Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
•  Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.