School Meal Program Coordinator at World Vision

World Vision

Position: School Meal Program Coordinator

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Contract

Place of Work: Gambella - Ethiopia

Posted date: 1 month ago

Deadline: Submition date is over

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience the fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

The position-holder will lead and provide technical guidance for the implementation of the school feeding program by set standards and practices. He/She position will collaborate and work together with key stakeholders in education, food security, nutrition, health, and WASH which will be an important component of the school feeding program. His/her work enables World Vision Ethiopia to reach, assist, and protect many school-age children across all refugee camps under Gambella operation and this is directly linked with World Vision’s mandate of promoting and ensuring the wellbeing of children in Ethiopia.

Will supervise and lead a team of 24 School Feeding Supervisors and incentive workers (cooks, cleaners, woodcutters, and assistant school feeding supervisors).

Program design and implementation

• Define the aims and objectives of the overall emergency and school feeding program (focused on children 7-14 years) and provide technical support for the program.
• In collaboration with stakeholders, develop a realistic evidence‐based, school feeding program plan, including both programmatic and advocacy activities (results-oriented).
• Design the most appropriate WFP standard and guideline based on the outcomes of assessments and the context.
• Ensure that issues of Gender, Protection, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), and Conflict-Sensitivity are integrated into the program design.
• Work in close collaboration with other program specialists to ensure linkage and holistic programming.
• Develop a school feeding program plan, concept papers, and proposals (including log frames programmatic budgets, and staffing plans) in respect of the above
• Supervise, lead, and manage the performance of the School Feeding Supervisors and incentive workers supporting the SF activities

Reporting, Monitoring, and Evaluation

• Regularly monitor the school feeding program through field visits
• Support other staff and incentive workers in monitoring program progress against indicators and school feeding guidelines
• Prepare a reporting template for incentive workers and compile and submit the report accordingly
• Gather and produce regular reports indicating the progress of school feeding activities
• Ensure and consolidate monthly indicators and statistics data related to the school feeding.

Training and capacity building

• Coordinate and/or implement training and briefing of World Vision Ethiopia Gambella staff, partners, and other key stakeholders on school feeding-related issues in all primary schools
• Capacitate school feeding staff and school community on school feeding-related issues
• Ensures that World Vision’s global policies for Child Protection (CP) and Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) are fully embedded under the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and World Vision’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed under the appropriate procedures.

Networking, Coordination and Reporting

• Provide regular updates to the Program Manager on progress, priorities, and constraints – verbally and in writing on an agreed frequency
• Represent World Vision in food assistance working group as needed.
• Support the implementation of the school feeding program and represent World Vision Ethiopia in emergency school feeding coordination mechanisms including any relevant cluster.
• Brief updates and reports on sectorial activities/strategies to donors and other stakeholders.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• University degree in Social Sciences, Nutrition, Health, and related fields
• Minimum of 3 years of practical experience in nutrition and School feeding (majority in the field)
• Minimum of two successful assignments in a complex refugee emergency (at least one of these must be a level post)

Required Professional Experience

• Planning and implementing School feeding activities
• Mobilizing and training of school feeding staff and school community
• Developing school feeding-related manuals (in English)
• Knowledge and experience in using and providing training on the school feeding Minimum Standards for the school community focusing on school feeding-related activities
• Designing and implementing school feeding activity
• Participation and/or coordination with the Nutrition-Education Cluster
• Develop assessment and monitoring standard checklist

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Demonstrated understanding of minimum nutrition and hygiene standards and practices in institutional feeding.
• Demonstrated mentoring capacity to the school feeding staff and school community.
• Experience with capacity strengthening and partnership building.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, and information management systems.
• Demonstrated commitment to accountability to affected populations of refugees, and experience working with and meaningfully

Applicant Types Accepted:

• Local Applicants Only