Coordinator of School Health and Nutrition inter-agency partnership
Coordinator of School Health and Nutrition inter-agency partnership
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10 August 2025-23:59-GMT01:00 Central European Time (Paris)WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race colour national origin ethnic or social background genetic information gender gender identity and/or expression sexual orientation religion or belief HIV status or disability.
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JOB TITLE: Coordinator of School Health and Nutrition inter-agency partnership TYPE OF CONTRACT: When-Actually-Employed Consultant
UNIT/DIVISION: School Meals and Social Protection Service
DUTY STATION (City Country): Remote from Paris France
DURATION: EOD 11 Aug 2025 NTE 31 Dec 2025 (total 80 days)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
For more than 50 years WFP has been the leading organization in supporting countries with school feeding. WFP provides school meals to more than 16 million schoolchildren as well as technical assistance to governments to strengthen national programmes embedded in national education policies. WFP launched in January 2020 a ten-year strategy that lays out its vision of working with governments and partners to jointly ensure that all primary schoolchildren have access to quality meals in school accompanied by a broader integrated package of health and nutrition services.
In July 2019 UNESCO and WFP convened an inter-agency meeting on School Health which gathered UNICEF WHO FAO UNESCO WFP GPE and WB to determine a renewed joint approach to promoting school health including school feeding to strengthen education outcomes. Unanimously Agencies agreed that more needed to be done in the area of school health and nutrition- so far a neglected area- and that UN agencies needed to do it jointly. Follow-up actions emerged along four areas: Joint advocacy; Data and knowledge sharing; Coordinated policy advice and capacity strengthening engagement at the country level; and Coordinated work on standards.
In October 2019 WFP has devoted a staff member part time to support the implementation of these actions. All partner organizations have increasingly positioned school health in their advocacy and partnership work especially in the context of the response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
This consultancy is a continuation of these efforts and contributes to WFP School Feeding Strategy Workstream 2: Acting in partnership to improve and advocate for school health and nutrition. Under the overall supervision of the Head of the School Meals Coalition Secretariat the consultant will support UNESCO- WFP led efforts to better position and step-up UN joint action on School Health and Nutrition by coordinating and taking forward the inter-agency partnership initiated in 2019 and ensuring the follow-up of agreed joint actions. The development of the first global report on school health and nutrition is expected to be a key joint deliverable to support data-driven policy and programming at the global and the country level.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1) Coordinating supporting and developing the work of the SHN interagency partnership Stepping Up Effective School Health and Nutrition
Developing the inter-agency partnership and facilitating timely exchange of information and coordination of joint products by:
- Reviewing jointly the objectives of the inter-agency group considering related partnership initiatives such as the School meals coalition the HPS initiative and the Global Education Coalition
- Convening regular virtual or face-to face meetings (3-4) as deemed relevant and possible
- Updating regularly partners (e.g. update email every second month)
- Intensification of bilateral discussions and engagement with partners to ensure we are fully building on partner assets and contributions during periods between meetings
Coordinating joint/aligned advocacy efforts to further position school health and nutrition by
- Identifying key advocacy opportunities and coordinating the update of a common narrative and materials with a focus on further positioning school health in the education agenda
- Supporting partners advocacy efforts (e.g. messages coordinated for specific events)
- Keeping a reference calendar to guide actions with identified advocacy opportunities
- Shifting from a reactive and opportunistic advocacy strategy to a more proactive approach with longer lead time and prioritization of actions that will have the most impact
Managing the development of a first Global report on the State of School Health and Nutrition to serve as a reference to track progress and support policy dialogue
- Ensuring the overall management and quality and timely progress in the development of the report
- Contracting project-managing and providing guidance to consultants /companies contributing the development of the report (e.g. compilation and analysis of data available; drafting of the report)
- Coordinating inputs and peer review from partners and experts through feed-back & validation meetings and other mechanisms
- Ensuring quality assurance and contributing to the data analysis and crafting key messages and recommendations
- Coordinating publishing and launch activities in close collaboration with the sectionscommunication officer and partners
2) Further developing UNESCO/WFP partnership on School Health and Nutrition and supporting joint efforts to position the issue in the education agenda
- Supporting the implementation of the MoU between the two agencies and act as technical focal point in UNESCO for WFP. Activities include among others supporting regular dialogue at senior and technical levels between WFP and UNESCO; and facilitating joint efforts and working the Education 2030 team to ensure learners health nutrition and well being are addressed in global dialogues agenda and cooperation mechanisms for education.
- Providing support to WFP staff in their partnership initiatives with UNESCO.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Education:
- Advanced degree in public health education international development or another relevant field.
Experience:
- At least 8 years of relevant working experience at corporate and field level with at least 5 years directly related to school health and nutrition /school feeding
- Experience in developing partnerships and working with partners.
Knowledge & Skills:
Essentials
- Good understanding of global school health and nutrition landscape and programming
- Capacity to represent WFP/UNESCO at senior technical level in meetings with partners and global networks; ability to support dialogue in inter-agency meetings and with partners with concrete and relevant technical inputs
- Capacity to engage with a broad range of stakeholders including UN agencies NGOs research institutions and governments and to work in a multi-cultural environment.
- Proven capacity to produce high quality guidance and written documents
- Proven capacity to engage in multi-sector analysis
- Fully fluent in English; with strong writing and communications skills
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word Excel Power Point);
- Ability to think creatively and strategically; ability to work autonomously
Desirable
- Fluency in French.
- Experience in multi-agency research and publication projects
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Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
