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Strategic Convenor / Advisor at Commited To Good, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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Strategic Convenor / Advisor at Commited To Good, Freetown, Sierra Leone

CTG

Full time Job

Date Posted: March 21, 2025

Application deadline:

December 31, 2025 6:00pm

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Job description

The Strategic Convenor / Advisor will facilitate the high level engagement with senior level government officials & key stakeholders engaged in school health & nutrition. This engagement will aim at buttressing effective & efficient design & implementation of the GPE Technical Assistance Facility in support of the National School Meals Programme (NSMP). S / he will collaborate closely with our client (as GPE grant Agent), the lead ministry responsible for NSMP, local education group members & key senior government stakeholders critical for this initiative.

  • Recognizing the transformative potential of the school meals program, a group of member states launched the school meals coalition at the UN food systems summit in 2021. The coalition is a government led global platform driving actions to urgently improve & scale up school meal programs to ensure that every child has the opportunity to receive a healthy, nutritious meal in school by 2030. Since its creation, the membership of the school meals coalition (Co Chaired by France, Finland & Brazil) steadily increased from 46 countries in September 2021 to 100 countries from all regions across the world1. The coalition has resulted in governments taking a central role & moving rapidly to advance school meal programs, with the topic now globally positioned as a key priority. As of today, the coalition has received national commitments from 48 countries.
  • To support national commitments to the coalition & government priority directions, a group of partners within school meals coalition are now exploring the opportunities to support provision of strategic on demand technical assistance at the country levels. The support is planned to be provided through a dedicated technical assistance facility starting from 2025.
  • In the meantime for the purpose of piloting & testing the approaches an inception phase was launched with deeper dive in focus countries. This inception phase is anchored in the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) project that focuses on Kenya & Lesotho. Additional countries may be identified during the inception phase based on availability of funding to expand the diversity of country typologies. Our client has established an internal implementation team to lead the implementation of the TAF in focus countries & provide dedicated program & partnerships coordination support to the coordination cell.
  • The facility aims to enhance the country’s capacities for transitioning to nationally owned school meal programs, as well as ensuring cross sectoral ownership. Leveraging the school meals coalition’s technical expertise, tools & resources to expand country specific partnerships supporting the national SMP, this facility will provide strategic in kind technical assistance aligned with the government & national stakeholders’ prioritized activities for the national SFP.

Role objectives

The Strategic Convenor / Advisor will report directly to the line manager & will support the roll out of the GPE Technical Assistance Facility in country where the staff is being deployed by performing the following responsibilities:

  • Facilitate & convene strategic dialogue with senior government officials & with key stakeholders in the school health & nutrition landscape. In particular, foster discourse that could positively influence transitioning to gender sensitive nationally owned school meal programs with cross sectoral ownership.
  • Promote TAF agenda with senior government officials & key stakeholders within local education group members, as well as other national platforms (where advocacy on TAF will be relevant). Represent TAF project & present at high level meetings, as required.
  • Ensure clear communication of goals, progress & challenges to senior government officials, share their feedback with the TAF team & advise / discuss necessary adjustments, where applicable.
  • Advocate for the NSMP needs, aligned to the immediate & mid term priorities & School Meals Coalition (SMC) commitments for the program (where applicable).
  • Conduct advocacy work during the inception stage of the TAF to ensure key stakeholders are on board & informed about the activity & the opportunities the TAF offers to contribute to the achievement of the NSMP needs & vision.
  • Review & provide feedback to TAF products (e.g. baseline review, policy brief, workplan, activity deliverables) to ensure alignment of TAF with national NSMP priorities.
  • Facilitate the endorsement of the TAF products with the respective government entities (e.g. policy brief, workplan, relevant TAF activity products, etc.), as required.
  • Ensure participation of high level officials in the inception phase as required for the context (e.g. stakeholder workshop) & advise on the representation of other key stakeholders. Support the lead ministry / defined national stakeholder in facilitating the stakeholder workshop as required.
  • Secure buy in & political support for successful implementation of the TAF beyond inception phase (means of achieving this to be discussed with the TAF team at the end of the inception phase).
  • Serve as the primary liaison between senior government officials, CO & TAF team.
  • Provide strategic advice & direction to the TAF team. Support in unblocking challenges to ensure timely & effective implementation of the TAF workplan.
  • Collaborate with PPGS in HQ & the RB on the design of approaches, contribute to GPE monitoring & learning agenda for TAF, participate in internal implementation & progress calls / consultations.
  • Provide strategic inputs into TAF progress & final reports as well as specific progress updates on implementation.
  • Perform any other duties that will support strategic high level engagement & support the implementation of the TAF project in line with the Terms of Reference (TOR) & objective of the activity.ct

Application deadline:

December 31, 2025

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