Deadline: 18 February 2016
World Food Programme (WFP) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Food Technologist in Mersin, Turkey.
The WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Food Technologist will perform the following functions-
- Establish and implement protocols and tools relating to food technology issues, such as food safety and quality and food product optimization, ensuring alignment with WFP procurement and supply chain strategy, policies and plans.
- Monitoring of WFP Procurement purchasing contracts execution.
- Assess inspection services and provide guidance and/or on-job training on best practices as required.
- Review and provide advice on the procedures for mitigating and documenting food quality and safety issues e.g. during food transit and storage in warehouses.
- Establish and implement protocols and tools in country offices that enable rapid response to situations with food safety concerns.
- Provide technical guidance and input to country offices in the design and implementation of medium scale and/or relatively straight forward food assistance programmes, ensuring compliance with WFP food and safety regulations.
- Lead and motivate a small team of staff, providing coaching, training and guidance as required to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance.
- Build relationships and collaborate with counterparts in key supply chain functions to establish standard operation procedures, protocols and tools that maintain, monitor and verify food safety and quality along the WFP supply chain.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Advanced university degree in Food Technology, Health Sciences, Food Control, Nutrition or other related field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.
- At least five years of postgraduate progressively responsible professional experience in quality assurance, quality control in a food production factory, food safety, quality management systems and food supply chain management.
- Good knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP).
- Knowledge of complementary food characteristics for children and other vulnerable
- Training and experience in utilizing computers and standard software packages and
- Fluency in oral and written English with an intermediate knowledge of Arabic is required.
- Another official UN language (Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages) is an advantage.
- Knowledge of Turkish is an
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications through online process.
For more information, please visit WFP.
