Overview
The Regenerative Supply Chain Expert will strengthen the enabling environment for resilient, localized, and regenerative supply chains for school meal programs and support designated country teams to access coordinated, high-quality assistance.
Key Responsibilities
- Mobilize and coordinate technical partners to deliver supply-chain diagnostics, procurement design, regenerative agriculture inputs, climate-risk modelling, and other context-appropriate assistance.
- Advance and refine shared tools and standards—procurement guidelines, supplier onboarding, farmer-transition strategies, monitoring frameworks, templates, and training modules.
- Guide governments in defining sourcing standards and compliance pathways.
- Drive cross-ministerial policy alignment for localized and regenerative sourcing.
- Translate technical insights into actionable policy guidance.
- Strengthen system-level connectivity by linking governments with global and regional actors.
- Lead governments to design or update multisectoral national school meals plans.
- Strengthen the national school meals ecosystem by convening additional actors.
- Enable governments to translate priorities and technical needs into concrete partnership opportunities.
- Oversee technical assistance with partners, ensuring agreements align with government priorities.
- Establish and reinforce national and subnational coordination platforms.
- Champion systems-leadership capacity by strengthening government and country-team skills.
- Oversee multisectoral ecosystem performance and partner coordination.
- Steward cohesive ways of working across SMA, SFI, country teams, ministries, and partners.
- Model SMA’s systemic leadership culture.
- Drive cross-country learning by surfacing insights and innovations.
- Strengthen continuous improvement by updating supply-chain tools, diagnostics, models, and guidance.
Required Experience
- At least eight years of senior experience in agrifood supply chains—across private sector, nonprofit, INGO/IGO, or hybrid environments—engaging directly with smallholder farmers and addressing market‑access barriers, infrastructure constraints, and localized supply‑chain challenges.
- Demonstrated international experience collaborating with diverse partners, including governments, International Financial Institutions, UN agencies, civil society, private sector, and academia, across regions and levels of influence.
- Extensive experience supporting government counterparts on fiscal, agricultural, procurement, nutrition/food‑systems, or multisectoral policy processes, including alignment across ministries and practical implementation support.
- Track record shaping supply‑chain design and procurement systems, particularly for smallholder‑inclusive or institutional markets (preferably school meals), and translating lessons across multiple country contexts through peer learning or portfolio approaches.
- Experience contributing to system‑level learning agendas, theories of change, or implementation strategies, including familiarity with monitoring, evaluation, and sourcing‑related metrics for adaptive management.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Food Policy, Agricultural Development, International Development, Economics, Social Sciences, or other relevant field; or a first university degree with two additional years of relevant experience and/or advanced training.
