Job Responsibilities

• Operations:
• Establish and implement protocols and tools relating to downstream and upstream FSQ issues, ensuring alignment with WFP logistics, procurement and overall supply chain strategy, policies and plans and food safety and quality manual and guidelines.
• Review and provide advice on the procedures for mitigating and documenting food quality and safety issues e.g. during food transit and storage in warehouses.
• Establish and implement protocols and tools in CO that enable rapid response to situations with food safety concerns.
• Provide technical guidance and input to CO in the design and implementation of medium scale and/or relatively straight forward food assistance programmes, ensuring compliance with WFP food and safety guidelines.
• Build relationships and collaborate with counterparts in key supply chain functions to establish standard operation procedures, protocols and tools that maintain, monitor, and verify food safety and quality along the WFP supply chain.
• Build productive relationships and partnerships with counterparts in UN agencies, NGOs, governments, and the private sector to enhance WFP capacity to respond effectively to levels of under nutrition.
• Keep current on emerging developments and cutting-edge research on the areas of food safety and quality and/or food product optimization to leverage the opportunities to incorporate industry best practices.
• Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.
• Reporting:
• Prepare accurate and timely reports that inform food risk assessment and management and contribute to a WFP wide view of food technology activities, enabling informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
• Institutional Capacity Strengthening:
• Lead and motivate a small team of staff, providing coaching, training and guidance as required to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance.
• Develop and deliver training modules to WFP staff and external stakeholders on the key areas of food technology, such as quality control, food processing, loss prevention and mitigation, food incident management (FIM) to build local capacity in the processing and/or production of specialized nutritious foods.