Business Support Assistant

Relevant Experience:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in relevant fields Experience:

Minimum 2 years of professional experience relevant to fieldwork, preferably contributing to food fortification and/or nutrition objectives. Experience working with WFP is an asset. Knowledge & Skills:

• Understanding of Food Fortification and wheat milling

• Understanding of community-level programming

• Collates accurate and timely information presented in required format.

• Proficient computer literacy. Languages: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Urdu. Fluency in local dialect of the duty station will be an asset.

Job Description:

1. Monitor all Chakki flour fortification-related activities and maintain coordination with supervisor (WFP focal point) and WFP project team..

2. Assist and support on capacity-building activities for staff of assigned Chakki mills, food inspectors, food safety officers, LHWs, lab staff, Nashonuma mobilisers and district focal persons on fortification, quality assurance and quality control processes to promote sustainable and adequate/effective fortification process of Chakki flour.

3. Assist in providing timely and adequate support to Chakki flour fortification, installation and maintenance of micro- feeders, its calibration and setting flow rate of premix as per standards prescribed by Pakistan’s Standard and Quality Control Authority and PFA regulations.

4. Closely monitor assigned Chakki mills to ensure that there is uninterrupted supply of premix according to their requirements and perform timely coordination with the supervisor and project team.

5. Ensure timely and smooth supply of iron Spot test kits to Chakki Mills and food inspectors for monitoring of fortification compliance at production, market and household level.

6. Collect samples of fortified Chakki flour from the assigned Chakki mills regularly and ensure its delivery at identified labs as per experimental design for analysis.

7. Assist in the identification of small-scale mills (Chakki) as per WFP guidelines.

8. Support surveys at market and household to monitor the availability of adequately fortified Chakki flour and ensure compliance keeping close coordination with the project team.

9. Assist project team in coordination measures with district government authorities for awareness creation activities at district level to generate the needed demand for fortified wheat flour in coordination with other functional units or agencies.

10. Conduct SBC and sensitisation activities in the assigned districts at the Chakkis/BNP Facilitations Centres in coordination with the BNP staff and other stakeholders.

11. Provide support to the chakkis in the development of Business to Business (B2B) linkages to create/increase demand of fortified wheat flour.

12. Prepare and submit daily, weekly, and monthly activity/monitoring plans and reports to supervisor (WFP focal point) and WFP project team.

13. Gather information with clear direction to support the drafting of documents and preparing reports by other staff.

14. Ensure the proper record keeping of production data, premix consumption and iron test kits etc. at Chakki.

15. Collect and collate the accurate field data and timely share with the supervisor.

16. Take responsibility for data integrity to facilitate availability of accurate information in corporate systems.

17. Respond to queries and escalate where appropriate to provide a timely and accurate service to Chakkis.

18. Take responsibility for the maintenance of set standard systems and files, to ensure information is accurate and readily available for the function.

19. Identify simple discrepancies in statistics and data, such as missing information, and report to senior staff to support Chakkis to deliver.

20. Perform other duties as required.