Programme Policy Officer - School Feeding

Provides senior technical leadership on Iraq’s school feeding portfolio, supporting design, piloting, institutionalisation and scale-up of a government-led healthy kitchen Home-Grown School Feeding model.

Department: Social Protection

• Provide strategic and technical leadership for WFP Iraq’s school feeding portfolio
• Guide design and implementation of the healthy kitchen Home-Grown School Feeding pilot
• Advise on menu design, food quality, food safety and operational standards
• Strengthen coordination and partnerships with government ministries and development partners
• Develop implementation guidelines, operational manuals, SOPs and technical tools
• Support evidence generation, value-for-money work, investment cases and policy advocacy
• Design South-South knowledge exchanges and capacity strengthening for national teams

• Advanced university degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Education, Food Systems, Social Protection, International Development, Public Policy, Economics or a related field
• Minimum eight years of progressively responsible professional experience in school feeding and social protection
• Experience designing or supporting government-led school feeding programmes
• Experience working with government institutions and supporting systems strengthening and policy development
• Experience supporting evidence generation, investment cases, value-for-money analysis or public financing advocacy
• Fluency in English

• Consultancy contract for 11 months, up to 15 working days per month
• Assignment is primarily remote with about three in-person missions to Baghdad
• Applications must be submitted through WFP online recruiting system
• CV and cover letter are required at application stage