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United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Food Safety and Quality Assistant
Application Deadline: Mar 18, 2025
Summary
Published: Feb 01, 2025 Vacancy: 1 Gender: No Preference
Age: Not Specified Career Level: Mid Level Experience: 5 Year
Salary: Not Specified Location: Cox's Bazar
Requirements

Education


  • Completion of University Degree (Bachelors) in Food Technology, Health Sciences, Food Control, Nutrition or any relevant subject.

Experience


  • 5 Year

Additional Requirements


  • Candidates should have prior experience in development agencies.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in Food Technology, Food Assistance Programs, or related fields.
  • Fluency in both spoken and written English and Bangla is required.

Responsibilities & Context

  • Collate and analyse data and contribute to the preparation of reports relating to food quality and safety, to inform risk management and mitigation and contribute to a WFP wide view of food technology activities.
  • Prepare evidenced based recommendations for senior staff on control measures to combat and reduce food commodity losses and food quality and safety issues.
  • Prepare evidenced based recommendations for senior staff on tools to enable rapid response to situations with food safety concerns.
  • In the event of food safety incidents, support investigation exercises to enable lessons learned to be documented and shared, to reduce re-occurrence of the incident.
  • Support project teams on the food technology aspects of food assistance programs, ensuring compliance with WFP food and safety regulations.
  • Contribute towards the development and/or implementation of protocols and tools relating to food technology issues, ensuring alignment with WFP procurement and supply chain strategy, policies and plans.
  • Support the capacity building of WFP staff and partners for efficient and effective delivery of food assistance to beneficiaries (e.g. through the design and review of training materials and partner warehouse management).
  • Identify and build productive relationships with supply chain colleagues and staff within the area of assignment to support an integrated approach to food assistance.
  • Guide and supervise more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with more complex analysis and queries.
  • Follow emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP are able to quickly respond and deploy food and needed resources to affected areas at the onset of the crisis.
  • Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.
  • Other as required.



Work Place

Work from Office

Employment Status

Type: Contract

Job Location

Cox's Bazar

Company Information
Company Name: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Address: IDB Bhaban 14th, 16th and 17th Floor E, 8-A Rokeya Sharani, Dhaka 1207


Business Type:

Food & Beverage Industry

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