Programme Associate (School Feeding) – Mogadishu, Somalia

Vacancy Announcement No. 793294 – 2023

Job Title: PROGRAMME ASSociate (SCHOOL FEEDING)

Contract Type/Grade: G6

Duty Station: Mogadishu, Somalia

Contract Duration: 1 year (Initial)

Date of Issue: April 13, 2023

Closing Date: April 26, 2023

What will you do?

1. Focal point for School Meals Programme activities covering Banadir region and Hirshabelle state.
2. Liase with partners (NGOs, UN and Government) in the implementation of school feeding program.
3. Actively participate in the design, oversight, and monitoring of school meals activities including strengthening systems, structures, and services ensuring they are in line with WFP policy procedures.
4. Prepare monthly distribution plans and verifying planned movements and distribution of food or non-food items
5. Support efforts to address findings from monitoring visits as well as reviews and evaluations.
6. Participating in school assessment and any other feeding mission if need arise.
7. In collaboration with WFP logistics team, ensure liaison between the beneficiaries (school leaders, parent committees, pupil representatives) and the retailers.
8. Provide progressive, periodic, and ad-hoc reports on the programme implementation.
9. Follow up and process invoices.
10. Participate in Education cluster coordination meetings organized through the cluster system and share situational updates with partners.
11. Support integration of protection and gender perspectives in all areas of work, to ensure equal participation of women/men.
12. Work closely with implementing partners and ensure that Cooperating Partner (CP) reports are received timely, reviewed and data captured into the COMET platform.
13. Receive, register in tracking system and Process of Cooperating Partners Invoices, and ensure partners are paid timely.
14. Provide weekly status updates on CP invoices received, registered, and processed for payment.