Partnerships Consultant
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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
14 November 2025-23:59-GMT01:00 Central European Time (Rome)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).
JOB TITLE:
Partnerships Consultant
TYPE OF CONTRACT:
Regular Consultancy I
UNIT/DIVISION:
School Meals and Social Protection Service (PPGS)
DUTY STATION (City Country):
Rome Italy
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
WFP provides school meals to an average of 18 million children every year and works with governments to design and implement nationally owned financially sustainable school feeding programmes. These technical assistance activities provide support to programmes covering over 39 million schoolchildren worldwide.
In support of the Sustainable Development Goals and aligned with current global evidence and consensus on the importance of supporting the health and nutrition of school children WFPs vision is to ensure that all vulnerable children have regular access to food in schools by 2030.
As per WFPs new School Feeding Strategy the School Meals and Social Protection Service (PPGS) will work toward this vision by supporting the implementation of school feeding programmes but more importantly and more broadly by supporting governments to scale up their own programmes. WFP will ensure these children are reached over the next decade through a combination of efforts including advocacy technical support and direct operational assistance.
In order to raise sufficient funding to achieve this vision WFP will work to identify channels to expand the current funding and proactively search out and leverage new funding for WFP supported school feeding from private sector partners international financial institutions innovative financing host governments multilateral funds and traditional donors including their finance development health and education sectors.
During 2024-2025 efforts of the School Meals and Social Protection Service (PPGS) will be prioritized to develop an innovative partnership model aimed at delivering targeted and strategic technical assistance to strengthen national school meal programmes. This model piloted in selected countries is expected to impact WFPs approach in delivering on-demand strategic technical assistance to the Governments.
This role will support WFPs efforts to widen the resource base for school feeding with new donors and opportunities as well as support PPGS efforts in defining partnership approaches in designing and delivering strategic technical assistance in selected countries with a potential for subsequent scale up.
It will support the PPGS Director the Technical Assistance Facility project lead and the Partnerships team in its liaison with donors and national governments.
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Within delegated authority the Consultant under the supervision of the School Feeding Programme Policy Officer (Technical Assistance Facility project lead) will be responsible for the following duties:
Partnerships
1. Engage across the PPGS team and corporate global units to support the mobilization of donor resources for school feeding.
2. Provide support and liaise with relevant donors as required for the preparation of strategic School Health and Nutrition funding proposals concept notes and briefing documents for internal and external stakeholders. Act as the lead focal point for the Global Partnership for Education in relation to designing and implementing technical assistance facility in the focus countries and other related activities.
3. Substantially contribute to the development of the innovative partnership model aimed at delivering strategic technical assistance through analysis of partnership capacities and comparative advantages of the key partners within the School Meals Coalition support the work of the Coordination Cell articulating and supporting implementation of approaches aimed at nurturing partnerships with the Cell.
4. Put together inputs for briefing documents for management meetings with donors and partners.
Country Support
5. Support team efforts in the regionalization of the School Feeding Funding Strategy.
6. Act as the partnership focal point for the assigned countries where technical assistance facility pilot will be implemented and support the roll out of the initiative (from contextual analysis partnership and influencing mapping inception missions and workplan design workshops workplan design and implementation).
7. Any other duties as may be required by the Hiring Manager.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Education:
Advanced degree in Political Science International Development Law Marketing communications or relevant field or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training courses.
Experience:
Three years of relevant experience in International Development or International Relations.
Knowledge & Skills:
Relationship/partner management resource mobilization excellent writing and analytical skills project management proposal writing.
Languages:
Fluency (level C) English. Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second UN language is a plus.
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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
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NO FEE DISCLAIMER
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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
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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.
Required Experience:
Contract
Employment Type
Full-Time
