Food Safety and Quality Assurance Expert – National School Meals Programme
Category | Grade:Professional | L-10Deadline:6 Aug 2026Job ID:JR125295Posted on:22 Jul 2026
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
- Agriculture & Food Security
- 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