Apply Today! Programme Associate – World Food Programme (2025)
Apply Today! Programme Associate – World Food Programme (2025)
🌐 About the World Food Programme (WFP)
The World Food Programme (WFP) stands as the world’s largest humanitarian organization dedicated to saving lives, reducing hunger, and building pathways toward peace, stability, and long-term prosperity. As a United Nations agency, WFP works in more than 120 countries and territories, helping individuals and communities rebuild their lives and strengthen their resilience after crises.
Awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, WFP continues to lead in emergency food assistance while also innovating long-term development projects, educational interventions, and nutritional programmes that serve millions of vulnerable people globally. Its commitment stretches across food security, school feeding, nutrition improvement, social safety nets, capacity building, and strengthening national systems.
WFP places people at the heart of its mission. The organization prioritizes a work culture built on diversity, inclusion, ethics, accountability, collaboration, and integrity. Employees work within a multicultural environment that promotes equal representation, respects all identities, and adheres to the highest standards of professional conduct.
In Egypt, WFP’s work intersects deeply with the Government’s Vision 2030. This vision seeks to foster sustainable development, improved livelihoods, and nationwide food and nutrition security. Through its Country Strategic Plan (2023–2028), WFP supports national systems through school feeding programmes, social protection expansion, digital transformation, capacity building, and resilience-strengthening initiatives across vulnerable regions.
🌍 Why Join the World Food Programme?
WFP offers an enriching, mission-driven career environment where you become part of a global movement committed to transforming lives. By joining the organization, especially within the School Meals programme, you directly contribute to creating equal opportunities for children, promoting education, reducing malnutrition, and empowering families across Egypt.
🌟 Benefits of Joining WFP
- 🏆 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2020)
- 🌈 Inclusive & Diverse Workplace: A multicultural environment with dedicated inclusion initiatives
- 📈 Professional Growth: Access to training, certifications, coaching, and leadership development
- 🔄 Mobility Opportunities: Work across different countries, regional hubs, and global WFP offices
- 💼 Competitive Compensation
- 🤝 Impactful Work: Direct involvement in humanitarian and development operations that change millions of lives
WFP values the following behaviours through its Leadership Framework:
Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion.
🎯 Job Purpose
The Programme Associate (School Meals), G6 position plays a fundamental role within the Egypt Country Office. Working under the direct supervision of the Programme Policy Officer (School Meals), the incumbent will support technical, operational, administrative, and coordination-related tasks necessary for the successful implementation of school feeding activities under WFP’s Country Strategic Plan.
School feeding is a crucial area of WFP’s work in Egypt, as it directly promotes:
🍎 Improved child nutrition
🏫 Increased school attendance
📚 Enhanced learning environments
👨👩👧 Support for vulnerable families
🏘 Strengthened community resilience
This role ensures that programme activities remain aligned with national priorities, government mechanisms, donor requirements, WFP operational policies, and international best practices.
🧩 Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
Below is a fully expanded and detailed account of responsibilities, reflecting the depth and operational complexity of this role.
📝 1. Provide Technical Support for Programme Implementation
The Programme Associate will actively support the development and implementation of school feeding initiatives. Tasks include:
- Supporting policy alignment between WFP and government priorities
- Ensuring that programme activities adhere to national strategies on education, nutrition, and social protection
- Assisting in the design and refinement of operational plans, implementation guidelines, and field tools
- Participating in technical meetings with government bodies, NGOs, and development partners
- Offering specialized input based on programme trends, challenges, and local context analyses
This includes contributing to the creation of materials such as operational manuals, training packages, monitoring tools, and documentation used nationwide across different school feeding interventions.
📊 2. Prepare Analytical Reports & Data Insights
The Programme Associate will gather, analyse, organize, and interpret programme data to support strategic decision-making. Responsibilities include:
- Preparing analytical reports on food assistance needs, nutritional gaps, and programme performance
- Producing weekly, monthly, and quarterly dashboards for internal and external stakeholders
- Highlighting emerging trends, risks, and opportunities
- Supporting evidence generation initiatives that strengthen programme design
This includes using data from COMET, WINGS, attendance records, school-level monitoring, distribution reports, and community feedback mechanisms.
🗂 3. Ensure Accurate Data Recording & Information Management
Data underpins all WFP operations. The Programme Associate will:
- Ensure accurate, timely, and complete entry of programme data
- Track school feeding progress through internal systems
- Maintain beneficiary records, distribution data, and compliance documents
- Support digitization and data validation initiatives
- Ensure that information shared with stakeholders is consistent, reliable, and aligned with corporate standards
🤝 4. Liaise with Government & Partners
School feeding requires coordination across multiple actors. Duties include:
- Maintaining strong communication channels with Ministries of Education, Social Solidarity, Health, and Supply
- Coordinating with NGOs, CBOs, community schools, and implementing partners
- Participating in multi-stakeholder meetings, sector working groups, and joint missions
- Facilitating smooth logistics, planning, and activity execution
- Ensuring that partner reports, programme agreements, and implementation plans adhere to WFP standards
📝 5. Compliance with Donor, Government & Organizational Standards
Duties include:
- Supporting adherence to donor guidelines, reporting timelines, and visibility requirements
- Ensuring compliance with national policies, school regulations, and operational protocols
- Supporting audit and evaluation processes
- Ensuring transparency, accountability, and ethical implementation across all activities
🧭 6. Monitor Field Activities & Partner Performance
Monitoring ensures programme quality. Responsibilities include:
- Conducting field visits to assess school-level implementation
- Verifying the distribution of snacks, cash assistance, or digital interventions
- Capturing beneficiary feedback and documenting challenges
- Monitoring partner performance in relation to project targets and contractual obligations
- Preparing monitoring reports and follow-up action plans
🎓 7. Support Capacity Strengthening
Capacity building is critical for sustainable impact. The Programme Associate will:
- Assist in designing training materials for government staff, teachers, partners, and WFP teams
- Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and technical seminars
- Support digital literacy initiatives for school administrators
- Strengthen understanding of monitoring tools, reporting templates, and food assistance guidelines
🛠 8. Operational Issue Resolution
The Programme Associate will:
- Respond to operational queries
- Troubleshoot programme bottlenecks
- Follow up with logistics, supply chain, and finance units as needed
- Ensure that school feeding-related operational challenges are promptly addressed
🚨 9. Emergency Preparedness
In crises, school feeding networks can support emergency response. Duties include:
- Supporting early warning systems
- Preparing for emergency deployment
- Helping map vulnerable schools and communities
- Assisting in emergency coordination and activation
🔄 10. Other Duties as Required
This may include supporting cross-cutting activities such as gender, protection, accountability to affected populations (AAP), innovation pilots, and more.
🎓 Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Education, Nutrition, Business Administration, Social Sciences, or other related fields.
- Additional certification in project management, monitoring and evaluation, or humanitarian operations is considered an asset.
🧪 Required Experience
Minimum 6 years of progressively responsible experience in:
- Programme or project implementation
- Development or humanitarian operations
- School feeding, nutrition, education, or food assistance
- Government liaison, partner coordination, or field monitoring
🛠 Knowledge & Skills
- Strong analytical and data-management skills
- Experience coordinating with governments, NGOs, and development actors
- Ability to supervise field activities and monitor partner implementation
- Strong communication and organizational capacities
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Familiarity with WFP systems (COMET, WINGS) is highly desirable
- Knowledge of food assistance operations and principles
🗣 Languages
- Fluency in English and Arabic (oral and written) is required.
- Additional languages are an advantage.
🧭 WFP Leadership Framework
Demonstrated behaviours expected from all WFP staff:
- Integrity
- Collaboration
- Inclusion
- Commitment
- Humanity
📥 Application Requirements
Applicants must:
- Submit a CV and cover letter in English
- Ensure their online profile is accurate and complete
- Include education, employment history, languages, and UN Grade (if applicable)
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Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
No fees are requested at any stage of the application process.
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