School Meal Fellow
School Meal Fellow
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Job Description
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
30 August 2025-23:59-GMT07:00 Western Indonesia Time (Jakarta)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.
ABOUT WFP
The World Food Programme is the worlds largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict disasters and the impact of climate change.
At WFP people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse committed skilled and high performing teams selected on merit operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment living WFPs values (Integrity Collaboration Commitment Humanity and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
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WHY JOIN WFP
WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
WFP offers a highly inclusive diverse and multicultural working environment.
WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training accreditation coaching mentorship and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country regional and global offices around the world and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Support national and international coordination mechanisms to enhance policy dialogue capacity and streamlined interventions for national school meals program.
2. Support evidence creation learning and innovation across programmatic life cycle to align with programmatic and national objectives.
3. Research and analyze various policy and operational issues related to large-scale school meal programs as part of WFPs engagement and advocacy with the government.
4. Support information collection and knowledge management to consolidate and document best practices and improve coordination and technical support.
5. Liaise with internal and external counterparts including partners to ensure effective collaboration monitor ongoing projects and highlight potential risks to project delivery.
6. Support drafting of policy briefs funding proposals and other advocacy and/or communication materials related to school-based programmes.
7. Support ad-hoc requests of support from government counterparts and the future areas of expansion of technical support including but not limited to fortification fuel-efficiency and clean cooking sustainable financing reduction of food waste market linkages etc.
8. Contribute to design and facilitation for meetings events conferences workshops and / or trainings related to the school meals programme.
9. Support the identification development and management of potential partnerships that align with and advance national goals related to the school meals programme.
10. Other as required.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Be a masters student or a graduate Political Science International Development Nutrition Food Systems Development Economics International Relations Law Marketing Communications or another relevant field.
Excellent written and spoken English is required (proficiency/level C). Working knowledge of another official UN language (French Spanish Arabic Chinese Russian plus Portuguese) is an asset.
Some experience with project management data collection research and analysis writing and communications.
Experience in partnership building and coordination particularly working groups will support the work.
Excellent command of MS office
International experience highly desirable.
TRAINING COMPONENTS
Throughout their assignment WFP Fellows have access to an industry leading learning platform weLearn. Depending on opportunities and availability of funds he/she may participate in WFP workshops or seminars as appropriate.
LEARNING ELEMENTS
Increased knowledge and expertise in programming of school meal programs
Experience in effectively liaising and collaborating with other teams WFPs Regional Bureau and the Headquarters other agencies and external partners on sustainable development
Experience in working with government counterparts and managing a multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder programme.
Experience in organizing and managing multi-stakeholder meetings large scale workshops trainings and other events.
Improved research coordination and programme management skills.
Enhanced structuring and writing of policy briefs proposals and communication materials
WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK
WFP Leadership Framework guides to the common standards of behavior that guide HOW we work together to accomplish our mission.
Click here to access WFP Leadership Framework
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
WFP is committed to supporting individuals with disabilities by providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation please contact:
NO FEE DISCLAIMER
The United Nations does not charge any application processing training interviewing testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Should you receive a solicitation for the payment of a fee please disregard it. Furthermore please note that emblems logos names and addresses are easily copied and reproduced. Therefore you are advised to apply particular care when submitting personal information on the web.
REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate complete and includes your employment records academic qualifications language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
Once your profile is completed please apply and submit your application.
Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter
Additional documents such as passport recommendation letters academic certificates etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
Please contact us at in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
Only shortlisted candidates will be notified
All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs job requirements merit and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse all forms of discrimination any kind of harassment sexual harassment and abuse of authority. Therefore all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
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.
Employment Type
Full-Time
