• Provides leadership to school feeding staff and ensure compliance with school feeding standard operating procedures, organisational guidelines and policies.
• Providing capacity building, performance management, and direction on tasks
• Ensures compliance, including financial tracking and administration and reporting.
• Coordinates relationships with key stakeholders for the smooth and efficient implementation of project activities and to create a culture of learning and cooperation among partners and project staff.
• Ensures community participation and local authorities in project processes, including safeguarding of beneficiaries at all stages of the implementation of the project.
• Conducts monitoring and supervision visits to the schools to ascertain programme quality and compliance with set standards.
• Produces and share periodic, monthly, end of term and annual reports to inform programme direction.
• Advises the Project manager of issues arising which affect the proper operation of the programme.
• Resolves issues based on advice provided.
• Liaises with schools, local government, local community leaders and other organisations to ensure the efficient implementation of the programme.
• Provides feedback on the lessons learned from the implementation of field activities and make recommendations for improvements as required.
• Assists in the processing of advance requests and follow on the retirement of such advances.
• Develops activity expenditure plan and communicate the same to the Project Director.
• Participate in the development of annual programme budget.
• Manages the performance of School Feeding staff.
• Organizes logistics components to ensure programme supplies are in adequate measures in schools at all times.
• Ensures that organization assets and equipment are taken care of and that staff are practising due diligence.
• Monitoring, evaluation and quality assurance
• In coordination with MEAL coordinators, support the field office to design results-based monitoring and evaluation process for the programme.
• Supports that the MEAL plan is implemented.
• Leads the planning and regular review of project implementation.
• Manages knowledge and experiences from the learning process and replicate good practices.
• Ensures the proper utilization and use of monitoring and evaluation systems are put in place.
• Partner management and Capacity Building and Representation
• Ensures that partnerships are maintained and functioning properly as per signed contract agreement.
• Maintains regular communication and interaction with partners to facilitate and promote learning and information sharing.
• Provide technical support to partners in the course of project implementation.
• Documentation and Learning
• Oversees the proper documentation of experiences and lessons (including pictures and video documentation) learned in the course of programme implementation.
• Support the MEAL unit to organize and properly maintain database and information related to the programme.
• Facilitates and participate in studies and reviews related to the programme.
• Facilitates and ensure dissemination of information and study/reviews.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary capacity to improve performance and applying appropriate measures when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for himself/herself (and their team).
• Takes responsibility for his/her own personal actions and encourages others to do the same.
• Widely shares his/her personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated thinks strategically

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, his/her team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
•  Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

•  Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency