Consultant: School Feeding Policy

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WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission is to help the world achieve zero hunger in our lifetimes. With more than 18,000 colleages worldwide, WFP works to ensure that no child goes hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

JOB PURPOSE

The WFP Angola Country Office is seeking a School Feeding Policy Consultant, to be based in Luanda to coordinate and develop recommendations for school feeding policy, a national-level review of the school feeding monitoring and evaluation system, and support development of a school feeding plan for the drought affected southern provinces based on locally produced food and products.. The consultant will be directly supported by a school feeding policy officer (national position) to provide technical support to the Government of Angola (GoA) current National School Feeding Programme.

This will include support to develop a school feeding operational plan for the drought-affected southern provinces based on locally produced and available food and products. The home-grown School Feeding Modelling will be further investigated. This could include sourcing from other surplus producing areas in the countries and does not necessarily have to only be from the four provinces (depending on the feasibility of the context).

In parallel, WFP will support the Government of Angola to develop National School Feeding Policy to guide the implementation of the current School Feeding Programme in Angola. This Policy envisages a sustainable, efficient, cost-effective School Feeding Programme that will address key outcomes of different sectors, such as enrolment and retention rates, food and nutrition insecurity, health and hygiene practices. It also aims at enhancing smallholder farmers’ capacity development and local economic development.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Coordinate WFP Angola’s School Feeding Project, including activities related to both track one and track two (page 1 of ToR), supervise relevant staff, and engage with involved governmental entities and partners;
2. Develop a detailed work plan to inform the planning for the national school feeding policy development, M&E action plan, and operational plan for selected municipalities of the four southern provinces;
3. Support the Head of Office in compiling fundraising strategies including preparing funding proposal, concept notes and reports to be submitted to donors; maintaining relationships with relevant donors; and preparing communication and advocacy materials;
4. Undertake regular desk reviews of current development plans, policies, legislation and strategies;
5. Strengthen partnerships with sister UN agencies, national and international NGOs, donors and relevant stakeholders;
6. Represent WFP in various technical working groups, thematic working groups, forums and meetings related to School feeding and, specifically, WFP’s School Feeding operations in Angola;
7. Regularly liaise with the RB School Feeding team to share and discuss technical matters and, where required, receive guidance.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Five or more years of relevant experience working with Government on development and running of large-scale safety nets (i.e. school feeding programmed);
• Experience in developing and implementing a change management strategy within or for a Government;
• Experience carrying out and presenting of analytical work
• Experience in establishing contacts and liaising with Government officials, local stakeholders, smallholder farmers cooperation, organizations, companies, among others;

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Proven ability to conceptualise, develop, plan and manage programmes;
• Leadership and teamwork abilities;
• Ability to network and engage effectively with wide range of actors including those in government, the international humanitarian community and donors, and establish effective working relations;
• Excellent communication and services skills including negotiation;
• Excellent analytical skills and resourcefulness;
• Ability to simultaneously manage multiple tasks in an autonomous manner;
• Maturity of judgement, initiative and tact;
• Ability and flexibility to handle any other additional nutrition-related tasks as requested by the Head of Office.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Advanced University degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Public Governance, Public administration, International development, International Relations, Social Policy, Social Research Methods or other field relevant to international development assistance;
• Language: Fluency (level C) in both Portuguese and English.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

This vacancy announcement will close on Sunday, 21 March 2021 at 11:59pm

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Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.