Programme Policy Officer, SO2 Manager (Human Capital Development - Nutrition and School Meals), NOB
Overview
To lead the design, implementation, quality assurance, and progressive national handover of WFP's nutrition and school meals portfolio, ensuring a coherent human capital development offer.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and technical leadership for CSP Outcome 2 (Activities 3 and 4).
- Develop an integrated human capital development approach.
- Lead annual work planning, target setting, budgeting and expenditure tracking.
- Supervise, coach and manage the performance of the HCD team.
- Oversee the direct implementation and expansion of HGSF.
- Lead WFP's technical support to the Ministry of Education on the national school meals programme.
- Lead the development and roll-out of the operational plan for the phased handover of school feeding.
- Oversee the delivery of donor-funded school meals programmes.
- Coordinate take-home rations or emergency school feeding where required.
- Lead WFP's support to the Government in preventing and managing malnutrition.
- Oversee nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programming.
- Strengthen partnerships with food system actors.
- Drive nutrition integration across the CSP.
- Serve as WFP's principal technical counterpart to relevant ministries.
- Provide evidence-based inputs into national policies and strategies.
- Design and implement institutional capacity strengthening plans.
- Represent WFP in relevant coordination platforms.
- Identify and develop partnerships for funding.
- Lead the preparation of concept notes, proposals and donor briefs.
- Oversee cooperating partner management.
- Ensure robust monitoring of Outcome 2 indicators.
- Lead evidence generation and learning.
- Prepare accurate and timely reports.
- Mainstream gender equality, protection, disability inclusion, AAP and PSEA.
- Maintain the portfolio risk register.
Required Experience
At least three (3) years of post-graduate, progressively responsible professional experience in school feeding, nutrition, education or food security programming; five (5) or more years is desirable. Has deepened technical knowledge through exposure to technical teams in school feeding, nutrition, education or public health. Has taken leadership of implementing programmes of considerable size and complexity, preferably school feeding/HGSF and/or nutrition programmes. Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions with government counterparts. Has managed or supervised staff and cooperating partners. Has managed donor-funded programmes, including reporting and compliance, and has experience with cash-based transfers. Experience working with the Government of Malawi is an advantage.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Education, Agriculture or Food Science, International Development, Economics, Social Sciences or another field relevant to international development assistance, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.