School leaders At Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internazionale

1. Context

   AVSI Venezuela is a Venezuelan non-profit organization, created in 2022, to contribute to improving the living conditions of people living in vulnerable situations. We are a local organization linked to the international context, through a partnership with the AVSI Foundation, a non-profit non-governmental organization that supports 329 development cooperation projects in 39 countries, with headquarters in Italy, that operates in Venezuela since 2000 and that promoted the creation of AVSI Venezuela.

   The WFP School Based Program in Venezuela includes school meals served in schools and school meals to take home. According to each modality, WFP has established processes and activities that require coordination between different areas and actors. The School-Based Program includes, in a cross-cutting manner, a communication strategy with communities, inclusive treatment of people with disabilities and nutrition-sensitive actions, like a feedback and complaint mechanism, that together with school meals they aim to provide food assistance that protects the food security of the beneficiary students and their families, respect your rights and facilitate your participation in the school community. Likewise,promote capacity building in school personnel, kitchen staff and representatives, and ensure a gender and protection approach.

2. Object

   With this announcement, AVSI Venezuela selects four (04) School Leaders responsible for the proper functioning of the School Meals Team in each of the schools assigned to it; they ensure the adequate reception, storage and preparation of food, as well as the correct and timely report of the consumption and existence of food. School leaders are the main link between the implementing partner team and school staff, therefore, it also serves as support for coordination and preparation of activities in the transversal areas and maintenance actions for school kitchens.

   Each School Leader will attend between 15 and 20 schools according to the distances and accessibility between each of them, and will be responsible for the installation and capacity building of the School Meals Team.

3. Description of functions
   -Participate in the meetings called by WFP regarding their role, including training.
   -Conform, be part of, train and install capacities in the School Meals Team in each of the schools that have been assigned to it where the served dish modality is implemented.
   -Ensure the adequate reception, storage, preparation and service of food and non-food products at school and transfers these capacities to the School Meals Team.
   -Digitizes in Fashion the registration of beneficiaries of the program by school.
   -Digitizes monthly in Fashion the data referring to the attendance of students and the rations served to the beneficiaries in schools.
   -Define together with LDCs and schools the management of food existence if any.
   -Distribute, together with the other members of the School Meals Team and if applicable, the basket to take home, and non-food products to the beneficiaries.
   -Ensure two-way communication with people, disseminate WFP messages and communication materials, promoting the involvement of people in the Program.
   – Provide training to school personnel, family representatives and community members, and inform the corresponding areas of incidents that occur before, during and after implementation.
   -Inform the plant engineer of the implementing partner team any maintenance requirement that must be urgently addressed and/or that may jeopardize the continuity of school meals served in schools.
   -Ensure the visibility of WFP in schools.
   -Communicate the objectives of the program, the feedback mechanisms and complaints, the dates and times of the call and the content of the assistance that corresponds to them, as well as their humanitarian rights and principles.
   -Do any other required task / activity in the field related to the School Based Program.

   -Identify, at the end of 2023, those schools that have strengthened School Meal Teams and those that must continue with a development plan for, together with WFP, develop an implementation strategy for the rest of the school period.

4. Key requirements and qualifications

-Education: Average and diversified training in any area (minimum requirement).

-Experience: minimum two (02) years of work experience, preferably in food programs, social projects or community organizations such as grassroots organizations, neighborhood associations, etc. (you must not be a political activist).

5. Knowledge, skills and abilities:

-Project management and community work.
-Effective communication.
-Capable of leading team training and performance processes.
-Team leadership.
-Proactivity and empathy.
-Problem solving capacity.
-Efficient management of Microsoft Office ® intermediate level.

6. Coordination of work

The School Leaders will respond directly to the School-Based Program Coordinator and the State Coordinator, based on the guidelines issued by the LATEAM Regional Office, the Headquarters in Italy of the AVSI Foundation and the World Food Program (WFP).

7. Type of hiring
Fixed-time contract
Start date: November 01, 2023
End date: March 31, 2023

Workplace
Work will be carried out at the AVSI Venezuela office in Yaracuy, so residing in the Bolívar and Manuel Monge municipalities or surrounding cities is highly desirable. Knowledge of the territory will be valued.