Programme Assistant (School Feeding)

Job Description

Title: Programme Assistant (School Feeding)

Company Name: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Vacancy: 01

Location: Cox's Bazar

Minimum Salary: Negotiable

Experience:
∎ At least 5 years

Published: 7 May 2025

Education:
∎ Bachelor/Honors
∎ Completion of University Degree (Bachelor) in Social Sciences, Business Administration, Economics or any relevant subject.
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Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Experience: Total 5 years of experience and preferably in primary education programme implementation or related business stream.
∎ Language: Fluency in speaking and writing in both English and Bangla language.

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Under the direct supervision of Programme Associate and overall supervision of the Programme Officer this position will be responsible for the following duties:
∎ Provide technical support to Cooperating Partners for implementation of school feeding programme activities in field, especially school feeding programme in the Cox’s Bazar camps and Bhasan Char.
∎ Assist in coordinating and monitoring of expansion of school feeding in refugee camps
∎ Ensure and follow-up school feeding partners to submit monthly and quarterly reports on time, review partners report and provide feedback
∎ Support partners in developing work plans and follow-up timely implementation of activities. Monitor technical aspects of programme activities, guide partners and review progress
∎ Review monitoring findings and issues shared by WFP RAM unit and take necessary action to resolve the issues
∎ Facilitate, review and provide feedback in FLA (Field Level Agreement) with partners and support and participate in CP annual performance evaluation
∎ Assist in preparation of cash forecast, estimated and actual expenditure in WINGSII, check Cooperating partners expenditures and facilitate in processing payments
∎ Review Cooperating Partners delivery plans and prepare Food Release Notes in COMET and facilitate validation
∎ Participate in monthly and quarterly review meetings organized by partners and coordination meetings with stakeholders, i.e. camp coordination meetings, food security and education sector meetings, coordination meetings with education partners.
∎ Assist in coordinating donor field visits, coaching staff on a programme to effectively respond to donor queries.
∎ ABOUT WFP
∎ The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
∎ At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
∎ Grade: SC5
∎ Type of contract: Service Contract
∎ Duration: 12 Months
∎ Duty station: Cox's Bazar
∎ This vacancy announcement is for only Bangladeshi Nationals.
∎ To perform specialized and/or standardized policy and programme-related processes and activities to support the effective delivery of assistance packages.
∎ KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
∎ Under the direct supervision of Programme Associate and overall supervision of the Programme Officer this position will be responsible for the following duties:
∎ Provide technical support to Cooperating Partners for implementation of school feeding programme activities in field, especially school feeding programme in the Cox’s Bazar camps and Bhasan Char.
∎ Assist in coordinating and monitoring of expansion of school feeding in refugee camps
∎ Ensure and follow-up school feeding partners to submit monthly and quarterly reports on time, review partners report and provide feedback
∎ Support partners in developing work plans and follow-up timely implementation of activities. Monitor technical aspects of programme activities, guide partners and review progress
∎ Review monitoring findings and issues shared by WFP RAM unit and take necessary action to resolve the issues
∎ Facilitate, review and provide feedback in FLA (Field Level Agreement) with partners and support and participate in CP annual performance evaluation
∎ Assist in preparation of cash forecast, estimated and actual expenditure in WINGSII, check Cooperating partners expenditures and facilitate in processing payments
∎ Review Cooperating Partners delivery plans and prepare Food Release Notes in COMET and facilitate validation
∎ Participate in monthly and quarterly review meetings organized by partners and coordination meetings with stakeholders, i.e. camp coordination meetings, food security and education sector meetings, coordination meetings with education partners.
∎ Assist in coordinating donor field visits, coaching staff on a programme to effectively respond to donor queries.

Skills & Expertise:

Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Contractual

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

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Apply Procedure:

Company Information:
∎ United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
∎ UN Offices, IDB Bhaban, E/8-A, Rokeya Sharani, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh, GPO Box 2488, Dhaka-1000

Address::
∎ UN Offices, IDB Bhaban, E/8-A, Rokeya Sharani, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh, GPO Box 2488, Dhaka-1000

Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job

Application Deadline: 20 May 2025

Category: NGO/Development