Food Assistance Officer (Food Safety Specialist) in World Vision Ukraine

World Vision International (WVI)—a leading international non-governmental organization—is looking for Food Assistance Officer (Фахівець з безпеки продуктів харчування), Dnipro

World Vision’s focus is helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

World Vision is committed to safeguarding children and adult beneficiaries believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation and expects all employees, interns, volunteers and all WV affiliates share the same commitment. WV takes diligent measures to screen out all people who might seek to use WV to harm children or adult beneficiaries, or whose past actions indicate an unacceptable risk of such harm. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedures include extensive identification checks prior to employment or engagement with WV in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.

Join a highly motivated team of world-class international and local humanitarian professionals to establish, build, and grow World Vision’s presence in Ukraine. You will work alongside global professionals, improving your knowledge, skills, and abilities in a multinational organization that will prepare you for work in the world’s best-in-class companies in the future.

Requirements

• Higher education (Agriculture, Biotechnology, Food Technology or any other related course from a University)
• At least two years of relevant work experience on a similar position
• Competency in Microsoft Office applications such as Ms. Office, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Teams, Power BI, databases such as MySQL and data collection applications such as ODK, Kobo
• Experience in international humanitarian missions will be an additional advantage
• Fluent Ukrainian and English
• Willingness to travel 20% of the time

Responsibilities

Commodity Management

• Ensure that all commodities are properly accounted for and bring to the attention of the Project Manager any discrepancies in accounting.
• Ensure that distribution plans are prepared and approved in advance to enhance efficient field operations.
• Ensure that damaged/unfit commodities are kept separately at the FDPs. Arrange for the disposal of all commodities unfit for human consumption upon receipt of the necessary authorization. Ensure proper documentation of such activity in the prescribed form in case there are damages at the centers.
• Ensure that the instituted commodity management and distribution system e.g. Last Mile Mobile Solution (LMMS) system is implemented, utilized and monitored.
• Ensure that commodities are received by the targeted beneficiaries. Spot-check FDP stores to ensure they are properly maintained and all equipment functioning properly
• Support the Food Security and Non-Food Items Advisor in ensuring that there are adequate commodity stocks and a healthy pipeline and advice accordingly.

Monitoring, Reporting and Documentation

• Ensure the implementation of food assistance activities is in line with the design and serves the needs of the community
• Conduct weekly/monthly project monitoring visits and prepare reports
• Consolidate monthly plans, ensure implementation and share updates on work progress against the plans.
• Ensure all records are maintained as per food programming standards and guidelines.
• Review partner reports and align them to the program design
• Document the contribution of the projects to child well-being outcomes to assess impact and advice programming.
• Support the setup of accountability mechanisms for all food assistance projects.

Coordination and Capacity Building

• Ensure coordinated engagement with the community, government authorities, humanitarian agencies and other stakeholders for planning, updating, avoiding duplication of resources to support a harmonious response
• Apply learning’s from field on various types of activities that could be planned and integrated alongside food programming.
• Provide updated information to internal & external partners
• Participate in identification of training needs and ensure proper training and develop capacity of partners and field monitors.

 Additional Information

• Full-time in office presence
• Official employment according to Ukrainian Labour Law
• Medical insurance
• Foreign language courses
• WVI Institutional trainings
• Travel up to 20% is likely
• Only candidates with Ukrainian citizenship or authorization to work in Ukraine will be considered
• Submit resume and cover letter IN ENGLISH
• Resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis and this position may close sooner than anticipated