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Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Provide management supervision and oversight on school feeding programme at County level.
- Manage and track food assistance programming budget and assets at the County level.
- Work hand in hand with other WV projects to ensure proper integration of school feeding programming with the greater WV Ministry.
- Track major trends and findings and take action to ensure project objectives are accomplished
- Develop monitoring plan for all schools and complementary activities (Nutrition and Hygiene) in the Counties.
- Carrying out routine daily monitoring, mentoring and coaching with weekly supervisions to schools.
- Responsibility for the organization and proper handling of data including storage of data and information relating to the school feeding programme.
- Provide technical oversight through periodic visits to monitor and review all aspects of the food programming and systems as well as to provide appropriate feedback and recommendation to the Field Coordinator and Food Monitors.
- Ensure proper management of the entire process of distribution planning, food dispatch from the warehouse to the FDP, receipt of food at the FDP, distribution, returns and accounting of losses.
- Ensure distribution staffs have adequate distribution materials to enable them perform their work effectively.
Reporting
- Collecting programme data from schools and other relevant sources for programme management and decision making including routine data of enrolment, feeding rate, attendance, stock balances and annual school performance,
- Make sure that reports capture all the major activities that happened during the reporting period including; success stories, challenges encountered and action taken to resolve them.
- Ensure reports are submitted to Food Assistance Manager on timely basis according to agreed schedule.
- Prepare weekly updates, monthly/termly and quarterly narrative reports as per the agreed scheduled with National, DMT and Donor/WFP.
- Ensure timely and accurate reports including DFDARs, distributions and deworming narrative reports etc, which reflect the true picture of school feeding projects in the Counties, are prepared and submitted to WFP and Zonal office ass per agreed timelines.
Staff management and Coordination and networking
- Develop and implement a staff capacity building plan on areas of commodity management, food distribution, and nutrition and hygiene sensitization in order to meet established standards through on the job training, workshops, conferences and any other appropriate methods.
- Identify other training needs during appraisal process and liaise with Food Assistance Manager and HR to see how this could be undertaken.
- Organize staff meeting to discuss project implementation as well as challenges and success.
School Feeding vegetable gardens
- Engage school administrations, PTAs, SMCs and local communities to support and provide labour to cultivate vegetables gardens in schools to ensure that balance the diet and complement WFP provided rations.
- Plan and initiate purchase requisition of vegetables seeds.
- Train school feeding stakeholders on how to produce vegetables at schools and at homes
- Encourage school level’s stakeholders to embark on home grown school meals (HGSM) which constitute a school meals model that provides safe, diverse and nutritious food, sourced locally from smallholders to children in schools. HGSM aims to link school feeding to agricultural development through the purchase and use of locally and domestically produced food, thereby benefiting both school children and small holder farmers.
Work relationships (teamwork and interpersonal communication skills
- Trust: The ability to trust co-workers and the feeling that you can rely on them is an important characteristic when building a workplace relationship.
- Acceptance: Acceptance and understanding of one another and your role in the workplace relationship is an important element.
- Team member: Individuals who work well in a team setting, doing their fair share of the work and giving credit when it is due, tend to have stronger relationships.
- Open communication: Open communication is crucial to any relationship, including a workplace one. Encouraging open communication, asking questions and getting to know your co-workers is one of the first steps toward a working relationship.
Qualifications/Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience.
The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:
Minimum Qualification required:
- Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or development.
- 3-5 years past experience, preferable with a busy NGO or UN agency, in food
- commodities handling tracking and accounting.
- Prior experience with WV CTS system and or UN WFP Compass system is an added advantage.
- Knowledge of WV, WFP and USAID regulations pertaining to relief food
- commodities tracking accounting and reporting.
- This position requires a person who is self-starter, who can accomplish the task
- with minimal or no supervision.
- He/she should be able to manage a team of staff as well as cooperate with other
- units. He/she must be keen on details and well-organized individual.
- Experience leading teams and working with partners is very vital for this role
- Excellent skills required in program assessments and design, reporting, documentation, monitoring and evaluation
- Demonstrates Christ-centered life and work
- Fluency in English language and the local languages spoken is an added advantage.
- Understands and is committed to WV’s vision, mission and core values
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only