Food Technologist Job at The United Nations World Food Programme
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest
humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to
end global hunger. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no
child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable,
particularly
women and children, can access the nutritious food they
need.
The United Nations World Food Programme is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Food Technologist - P3
Requisition #: 8861
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Job Purpose
- Lead the implementation of food safety and quality management
and/or food product optimisation initiatives within a CO or support
regional or global initiatives.
- Job holders are responsible for partnering with the key supply
chain functions to ensure an integrated supply chain approach to meeting
the food assistance needs of beneficiaries.
Key Accountabilities (not all-inclusive)
- Establish and implement protocols and tools relating to food
technology issues, such as food safety and quality and food product
optimisation, ensuring alignment with WFP procurement and supply chain
strategy, policies and plans.
- 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
in order to leverage the opportunities to incorporate industry best
practices.
- Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.
- 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 country offices
that enable rapid response to situations with food safety concerns.
- Provide technical guidance and input to country offices in the
design and implementation of medium scale and/or relatively straight
forward food assistance programmes, ensuring compliance with WFP food
and safety regulations.
- 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, to build local
capacity in the processing and/or production of specialized nutritious
foods.
- 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.
- Other as required.
Other Specific Job Requirements (Functional Capabilities)
This section is optional to describe additional responsibilities & knowledge required for the specific job:
Food Quality Management:
- Guides team on the principles of matching food types with local
needs and capabilities across the supply chain (e.g., storage capacity)
to optimize impact of WFP resources.
Incidence & Risk Communication Management:
- Educates unit/region on the appropriate procedures for handling
and communicating risks as they emerge in a timely and safe manner.
Ethics & Compliance:
- Drafts plan for audit queries and process improvements in line
with ethics/compliance standards, donor requirements, and operating
procedures.
Research & Development:
- Demonstrates ability to oversee research that assesses the
health status of a population and the link back to basic nutrition
requirements and needs.
Commodity Knowledge:
- Utilizes in-depth knowledge of food product optimization and
broad knowledge of best practices, techniques and processes to provide
technical guidance to country offices in design of food assistance
programmes.
Standard Minimum Qualifications
- Education: Advanced university Degree in Food Technology, Health
Sciences, Food Control, Nutrition or other related field, or First
University degree with an additional years of related work experience
and/or training/courses.
- Language: International Professional: Fluency (level C) in
English language. Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official
UN language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or WFP’s
working language, Portuguese.
- National Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different.
Desired Experiences for Entry into the Role
- Has worked in emergency response capacity.
- Has experience building strong external relationships.
- Has experience working on developing food assistance programmes.
- Has worked with counterparts in supply chain function.
- Has experience monitoring and assessing food safety and quality issues.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Application Deadline 13th January, 2017.