ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Provide context-specific and tailored technical and programmatic
support on local food production, local food solutions, and food
fortification
• Provide technical assistance to local producers of fortified foods on key food technology and fortification areas, including food processing, product formulation, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Hygiene Practices (GHP), quality assurance, and quality control, with the aim of strengthening local capacity to produce safe and nutritious foods.
• Collaborate with national food technologists, nutritionists, programme, and Food Safety and Quality Assurance (FSQA) colleagues, as well as relevant government and private-sector stakeholders, to ensure that safe, high-quality, and nutritionally adequate food products are accessible to local populations and, where appropriate, integrated into WFP food assistance programmes.
• Support Country Offices in engaging with a diverse range of private-sector actors, from women-led producer groups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to large national food manufacturers, while promoting value chain approaches that connect smallholder farmer organizations, processors, distributors, and consumers.
• Ensure that relevant Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) approaches and messaging that influence food choices and dietary practices are incorporated into food production and processing initiatives, and reflected in stakeholders’ practices and decision-making processes.
• Provide technical support for the design, implementation, monitoring, and scaling up of large-scale food fortification programmes and initiatives.
• Contribute to knowledge management, documentation of lessons learned, and dissemination of best practices related to local food solutions, food fortification, and nutrition-sensitive value chain development.
• Perform any other duties as required by the Team Leader, Food Quality and Strategy (FQS), and the Regional Nutrition Advisor.