School Meals Accelerator

Your privacy is important to usThe School Meals Accelerator (the Accelerator) is a new initiative under the School Meals Coalition, launching in **** to support low- and lower-middle-income countries in scaling up and strengthening their national school meal programs.It responds directly to growing government demand for strategic, high-quality technical assistance that ensures long-term sustainability.The Accelerator builds on the momentum of the Coalition, which has mobilized over 110 countries and 140 partners around the school meals agenda, with more than 60 countries making formal national commitments.* Develop and deliver a structured capacity-building programme (training materials, workshops, documentation, and recordings) for Accelerator staff.* Build staff understanding of systems, data flows, and architectural principles to enable independent operation and continuous improvement.* Maintain architectural decision records, alongside technical documentation, operational playbooks and learning logs to ensure the documentation is adaptive, updated and aligned with key business decisions, and their underlying assumptions, outcomes, and lessons learned — informing future adaptation as contexts evolve.* Embed continuous improvement methods into day-to-day work by creating tools, documentation, and processes that help staff reflect on experience, surface assumptions, test new approaches, and build adaptive capacity* Enterprise and solution architecture documentation, including reference architectures, data flows, and integration patterns aligned with Accelerator processes and purpose.* Cloud architecture blueprints for key solutions, with clear implementation patterns and sustainability considerations.* Reusable infrastructure components (e.g. IaC templates or stacks) supporting Accelerator platforms.* Data and analytics architecture enabling consolidated information flows, interoperability, and insight generation.* AI enablement guidance and implemented use cases (where applicable), aligned with responsible AI principles.* Capacity-building package, including training materials and delivered sessions enabling staff to operate and evolve the systems.* Architecture and maturity assessment report, covering platform health, security posture, and cost-optimisation opportunities.* Mechanisms to support learning and adaptation, enabling data, reflection, and feedback to inform decision-making, experimentation, and continuous improvement across the Accelerator.* Strong hands-on experience with cloud services (compute, storage, databases, serverless, identity, monitoring).* Experience with data platforms and analytics services (e.g. data lakes, ETL, query engines, dashboards).* Familiarity with AI/ML platforms and integration patterns.* Solid understanding of security architecture, identity and access management, and compliance considerations.* Ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders—translating technical concepts and fostering collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.The School Meals Accelerator is committed to supporting individuals with disabilities by providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.If you require a reasonable accommodation, please contact: * We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete, and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).* Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.* Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter* Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time* Please contact us at in case you face any challenges with submitting your application* Only shortlisted candidates will be notified#J-*****-Ljbffr