Overview
Provide senior-level technical leadership, policy advice, and strategic oversight for the design, scale-up, and institutional transition of WFP Yemen’s school feeding portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide overarching technical leadership for WFP Yemen's school feeding portfolio, managing the strategic pivot to nutrition-sensitive, shock-responsive Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) and Healthy Kitchen delivery models.
- Architect and guide the execution of the operational and fiscal transition roadmap to systematically transfer field implementation, data management, and operational incentive costs from WFP direct funding onto the national MoE civil service payroll and budget lines.
- Provide expert guidance on establishing community-based local procurement networks and institutional market linkages.
- Formulate and enforce strict standard operating procedures (SOPs), food safety and quality management protocols, nutrition-sensitive menu guidelines, and localized supply chain tracking tools.
- Manage and facilitate high-level coordination committees across relevant ministries and local authorities.
- Oversee the design and deployment of integrated, nutrition-sensitive Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) toolkits.
- Lead the production of high-level policy briefs, multi-sectoral investment cases, and analytical evidence products.
- Design and oversee comprehensive Value for Money (VfM) tracking, fiscal cost-effectiveness studies, and rapid diagnostic assessments.
- Identify, design, and pursue complementary and innovative financing streams.
- Drive the finalization, high-level endorsement, and operationalization of the Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) school feeding tool.
- Act as WFP’s primary technical adviser to the Ministry of Education to support Yemen’s high-level commitments within the global School Meals Coalition.
- Design, fundraise for, and execute targeted South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) initiatives and study visits.
- Systematically translate global best practices, technical innovations, and inter-agency evaluation lessons into highly contextualized operational manuals.
- Design and implement a comprehensive capacity diagnostics tool.
- Roll out a structured institutional capacity-strengthening curriculum.
- Deliver daily on-the-job technical coaching, strategic mentoring, and programmatic oversight to national Programme Policy Officers.
Required Experience
Minimum of Seven (7) years of progressive international experience leading large-scale school feeding or social protection safety nets, with a proven track record in designing HGSF value chains and navigating fragile, conflict-affected contexts. Demonstrated capability working directly with central government ministries (Education and Finance) to manage structural systems-strengthening transitions, operational handovers, and national policy architectures. Extensive background leading multi-sectoral evidence generation, authoring investment cases, executing Value for Money (VfM) metrics, and orchestrating resource mobilization campaigns for institutional development. Proven skill in running formal capacity-building architectures, technical coaching frameworks, and professional mentoring tracks for national counterpart networks.
Qualifications
Advanced University Degree (master's or equivalent) in Social Protection, Public Policy, Education, Nutrition, Food Systems, International Development, Public Health, Economics, or a related human development field.
