Programme Policy Officer – School Feeding

Programme Policy Officer – School Feeding
Компания: World Food Programme
Город: Phnom Penh
**DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS**
24 November 2026-23:59-GMT+07:00 Indochina Time (Phnom Penh)
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**This vacancy announcement is open to non-Cambodian nationals only.**
**POSITION TITLE:** Programme Policy Officer – School Feeding
**TYPE OF CONTRACT:** International Consultant – Regular
**LEVEL:** CST I
**UNIT/DIVISION:** School Feeding Programme
**DUTY STATION:** Phnom Penh, Cambodia
**DURATION:** 11 months
**REPORTING LINE:** This position reports to the Programme Policy Officer – School Feeding Technical Assistance Lead
**BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT**
Central to its Cambodia programme, WFP has been working with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) to implement school feeding since 1999 through the provision of hot, nutritious meals in schools and cash/food scholarships to vulnerable primary and pre-primary school children. From 1999 to date, this social assistance programme has benefited over two million schoolchildren with much work already done to transition school feeding to a nationally managed and funded programme. The programme currently reaches over 300,000 children in Cambodia and has an increasing focus on supporting the scale up of the government’s school feeding programme, whilst WFP shifts towards technical assistance. In September 2024, the legal framework for National Home-Grown School Feeding programme (NHGSFP) was strengthened through the Prime Minister’s approval of the School Feeding policy (2024 – 2035). Building on this milestone and with technical support from WFP, MoEYS endorsed the School Feeding Policy Action Plan (PAP) in October 2025, outlining six multi-sectoral strategies to operationalize the policy.
WFP is seeking to recruit a dynamic and experienced Programme Policy Officer – School Feeding who will play a key role in providing technical assistance to the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP). The incumbent will support technical assistance activities for NHGSFP, including coordination, advocacy, evidence generation and strengthening national systems, processes and review of programme design, based on national and global evidence, best practices and approaches. This work will contribute directly to the implementation and scaleup of a high quality, sustainable, and nationally owned school feeding programme that is progressively led and financed by the Government
**ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:**
The overall objective of this position is to provide dedicated technical, coordination, and project management support to WFP's School Feeding Donor Reporting, Donor coordination, and Technical Assistance workstream.
The incumbent will support the School Feeding Technical Assistance Lead in two interconnected areas: **(i) donor project management and cross-unit coordination**, including oversight of performance tracking, reporting, budget monitoring, grant compliance, and stakeholder engagement for major school feeding investments such as the United States Department of Agriculture McGovern-Dole Programs (FY22 and FY26), KOICA Home-Grown School Feeding Project Phase II, and other donor-supported initiatives; and **(ii) technical assistance and system-strengthening support**, including implementation of the School Feeding Policy Action Plan (PAP), cross-sectoral and inter-ministerial coordination, evidence generation, programme innovation, and capacity strengthening to support Cambodia's transition towards a sustainable, government-owned school feeding programme.
The incumbent will work closely with the WFP School Feeding team, WFP secondment Officer at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), Reporting Programme Associate, Literacy & Technical Assistance Officer, and relevant country and field office units to ensure effective coordination, planning, reporting, performance monitoring, government engagement, and implementation of both donor-funded projects and technical assistance priorities supporting Cambodia's National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme.
A specific focus of the assignment will be on the following:
**Technical Assistance, Policy Support and System Strengthening**
1. Support the implementation of Cambodia's School Feeding Policy Action Plan (PAP) and broader technical assistance workstreams aimed at strengthening the sustainability, quality, scale, and government ownership of the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP).
2. Facilitate cross-sectoral and inter-ministerial coordination among MoEYS, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), General Secretariat of National Social Protection Council (GS-NSPC), development partners, academia, and other stakeholders involved in the implementation of the School Feeding Policy and PAP.
3. Lead and coordinate technical pilots and system-strengthening initiatives, including procurement models, local procurement mechanisms, community-led approaches, model school standards, and other innovations identified under the PAP, while ensuring lessons learned are documented and disseminated for policy engagement and programme improvement.
4. Develop concept notes, technical papers, implementation plans, partnership proposals, and other knowledge products to support technical assistance initiatives and resource mobilization efforts aligned with national priorities.
5. Consolidate and translate evidence from studies, evaluations, costing exercises, return-on-investment analyses, assessments, and pilot initiatives into practical recommendations to inform programme design, policy implementation, target