Programme Policy Officer (School Feeding)

Consultancy providing strategic and technical support to WFP and Mozambique’s education ministry for the national school-feeding programme, coordinating external assistance, producing analysis, managing events and providers, mobilising resources and strengthening national capacity.

Department: Nutrition, Resilience and School Feeding

• Coordinate and quality-assure external technical-assistance services
• Advise the education ministry on school-feeding priorities and implementation
• Develop analytical reports, briefs and evidence products
• Manage consultancy firms and service providers against agreed deliverables
• Plan and deliver technical events, workshops and missions
• Support school-feeding resource mobilisation, proposals and donor reporting
• Improve operational processes, systems and governance arrangements
• Coach national staff in programme-cycle management

• University degree in international relations, economics, social sciences or another relevant area
• Five years of post-graduate professional experience, including work with government and partners on school-feeding programmes
• Knowledge of food security, school feeding, school health and nutrition
• Experience working with Mozambican national institutions
• Experience working in multicultural teams
• Excellent reporting skills
• Fluency in English and Portuguese

• Consultant contract at CST-I level for six months
• The posting contains conflicting deadline text; the structured vacancy deadline remains authoritative