Provide technical expertise and guidance to schools for improved food handling and food safety practices in food storage and management in school feeding programmes.
1. Assist in developing and maintaining a quality assurance programme, ensuring that food products meet the established standards of quality and food safety
2. Prepare training programs and conduct training courses for staff in school kitchen on food handling, storage, and food serving activities, i.e., equipment, utensils, and dishes, cooks and meals, and good cleaning and sanitation practices at schools.
3. Support in education or capacity building on food quality and safety for school feeding in Nyamagabe and Nyaruguru districts.
4. Undertake activities related to training need assessment, and provision of training courses around quality and safety, food handling and storage, especially cereal products, pulses, roots, tubers, legumes, nuts, fruits, vegetables, milk/dairy products, salts, oil, and water.
5. Undertake food supply and store quality audits to identify non-conformities and propose corrective actions required (arrange, coordinate, and participate in external quality audits)
6. Support schools in food procurement activities and advise on food handling, transport and storage of perishable and non-perishable food commodities.
7. Conceptualize awareness, training, and technical assistance based on need assessment, organize, and conduct awareness campaigns, and technical assistance as per the established plan.
8. Contribute to building the capacity of smallholder farmers and local millers in the districts to supply the National School Feeding Programme, with regard to food quality and safety, as well as food fortification standards to comply with when supplying schools.
9. Undertake impact assessment of training courses and technical assistance in the school feeding programme.
10. Follow up the implementation of proposed corrective actions and recommendations after a quality audit, and timely report on the progress made.
11. Supporting WFP and partners in recommending areas of improvement to implementing relevant activities regarding food quality and safety.
12. Ensure that all records and documentation related to the role are properly kept and maintained.
13. Contribute to the development of sampling plans and procedures for testing product quality/ quality control purposes.
14. Participate in quality management system reviews and promote quality and food safety policies to all personnel.
15. Review and report the principle causes of quality loss and non-conformance.