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Food Safety and Quality Assurance Expert – National School Meals Programme

WFPCairo, Egypt
Category | Grade:Professional | L-10Deadline:6 Aug 2026Job ID:JR125295Posted on:22 Jul 2026
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Overview

Designs food-safety and quality systems for Egypt’s transition to hot school meals, assessing kitchens and delivery models, defining procurement and supplier controls, developing operational manuals and costing inputs, training government counterparts and advising pilot readiness and national scale-up.

Languages

Required: English, Arabic

Job Areas

  1. Agriculture & Food Security
  2. Logistics & Supply Chain

Minimum Experience

8 years

Estimated Salary

Not available

Responsibilities

  • Assess food-safety risks across schools, kitchens and supply chains
  • Define safety controls for onsite, central-kitchen and hybrid delivery
  • Set procurement, supplier, inspection and incident-response requirements
  • Draft operational guidance, monitoring systems and costing inputs
  • Train national counterparts and assess pilot readiness

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in food science, food safety, nutrition, supply chain, public health or related field, or first degree with additional experience
  • Eight to ten years of food-safety and quality-assurance experience including five years in senior technical roles
  • Large-scale catering food-safety system experience
  • Fluency in English and Arabic

Skills

Food safety systemsQuality assuranceInstitutional cateringSupply-chain riskHACCP controlsTraining design

Additional info

Not available