UN World Food Programme Policy Officer (School Feeding and HIV/TB Specialist) Jobs in Kenya

UN World Food Programme Policy Officer (School Feeding and HIV/TB Specialist) Jobs in Kenya

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.

The WFP Regional Bureau for East Africa (RBN) is based in Nairobi and provides strategic direction, technical guidance, resource mobilization, and management support to WFP operations and activities in ten countries: Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Uganda.

Organizational Context

These jobs are found in Headquarters (HQ), Regional Bureaux (RBs) or Country Offices (COs). Job holder will report to the Senior Regional Nutrition Officer.

Background and Purpose of Assignment

The ten-year corporate school feeding strategy (2020-2030) has shifted to broaden its focus. The school feeding strategy now promotes delivery of a package of interventions, to ensure that the learner is healthy and has quality meals to realize their growth and education goals. School feeding has been identified as one of the game changers in the food systems because of its unique position to create both demand and supply.

This position withing the School Feeding team will pursue the following strategic opportunities:

Coordinate WFP’s regional support to the School Meals Coalition in countries within RBN. It is an opportunity for transitioning to national led universal school meals programs sooner than previously experienced. RBN will support governments to undertake Cost Benefit Analyses to assist to better articulate the investments cases to IFIs.

Multisectoral opportunity - to work with private sector, academia in school health and nutrition, for increased investments in line with commitment by governments.

Collaboration with African Union – Aligning to the AU’s Continental School Feeding Strategy (2016-2025), RBN, sees an opportunity for scale and quality of school meals, economies and markets through Homegrown School Feeding (HGSF), with the enhanced the Food systems lens as part of the Local and Regional procurement initiative.

South to South Corporation – with Rwanda already submitting National Commitments, Kenya having transitioned to national program and Burundi’s emerging ‘goodwill” outlook for funding, there is potential to accelerate the objectives and learning through STS-C.

Key Accountabilities (not all-inclusive)

Under the supervision of the Senior Regional Nutrition Advisor, the Consultant will be responsible to support acceleration of school feeding programme implementation in the region along with the following duties:

Support the establishment of East Africa Sub-Regional Network for School Meals Coalition, which is a recent initiative aimed at achieving government commitments toward universal school health and nutrition programs.

Identify potential entry points – the different countries present themselves with different contexts and typologies, what might be the best system and approach in addition to school, food, health, and possibly social protection to strengthen the linkages

Recommend operational

focus, retrofitting where necessary within the ‘architect’ of the country strategic plan to ensure value addition to current programs in terms of quality and scale, including incorporation of HIV/TB objectives and activities

Support development of impact pathways to enhance multisectoral implementation of the proposed linkages

Provide technical support to country offices on HIV-sensitive social protection and HIV in emergency and ensure that key global guidance is contextualized at country office level and are informing national as well as WFP strategies and programming.

Develop and/or update key knowledge management tools on school feeding (including School Meal Plus, School Connect, Optimus Lite among others) to enable scale of use within countries and as part of south-to-south corporation within member states in African Union to form part of country capacity strengthening efforts.

Review CSPs, WFP project documents, ACRs as well as national protocols, guidance and policy documents to ensure technical integrity. This will include strategic and technical engagement in the CSP process including collaboration with M&E to ensure appropriate school feeding and HIV/TB indicators are selected and are in line with corporate standards.

Perform other related duties as may be required.

Standard Minimum Qualifications

Experience:

At least five (5) years of postgraduate progressively responsible professional experience in program management related and working with governments stakeholders; proven capacity to conduct policy analysis and engage in policy dialogue.

Education:

Advanced University degree preferably International Affairs, Food Security, Public Health/Nutrition, Agriculture, Social Science or other fields relevant to International Development Assistance or other related fields of study, or First University degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or advanced training/courses.

Languages:

Fluency in oral and written in English, a second UN language (especially French) would be an advantage.

Desired Experiences for Entry Into the Role

Proven experience in building synergies among stakeholders, coordination with humanitarian and development partners on food security, education, nutrition, value chain development, knowledge management and advocacy.

Demonstrates ability to incorporate technical information into policy and strategy formulation and into program design and implementation, and to appropriately communicate it internally and externally.

Maturity of judgement, good analytical skills, resourcefulness, initiative, negotiating skills.

Ability to work in a team and establish effective working relations with persons of different national and cultural backgrounds.

High capacity for organization and coordination, as well as an ability to work with a high degree of independence in a team environment

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; UN World Food Programme Policy Officer (School Feeding and HIV/TB Specialist) Jobs in Kenya

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