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Food For Education
📍 KenyaCDI🗓️ about 1 month ago

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Kenya
CDI

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Area Operations Officer - Molo

Job Type: Full Time Qualification: BA/BSc/HND Location: Molo Job Field: Project and Program Management

About the role Food for Education (F4E) feeds over 600,000 children across Kenya every school day, and we're scaling to one million meals a day. That growth only happens because people show up in the field every day with ownership. As an Area Operations Officer, you are the operational backbone of 4 production sites (kitchens) in your area. Each site comprises 2-4 Kitchen Officers (cooks). You're not a supervisor passing down instructions, you're the person who makes sure every kitchen under your watch runs safely, efficiently, and to standard. You know your sites better than anyone: their performance, their challenges, their opportunities. You bring solutions, not just reports.

This is a field-based role. You'll visit 1-2 sites each day - you’re on the ground, in the kitchens, with the teams.

Your Mandate

Site Operations & Standards Conduct structured audits of your sites, ensuring compliance with F4E's SOPs, food safety policies, and operational standards. Train kitchen staff on SOPs and communicate policy updates — you're the bridge between the service centre and the sites. Ensure every site has what it needs to operate: stock, PPE, equipment, and supplies are available. Validate stock takes twice a month at every site you oversee.

Financial Oversight Own your understanding of cost-per-meal (CPM) variance across all your sites. You are the person who knows why costs moved, and you surface both concerns and opportunities to your manager. Support billing processes in partnership with your Regional Coordinator and the finance team. Drive timely procurement: 90% of orders submitted on time, every cycle.

Data, Reporting & Analysis Track, synthesize, and report on performance trends at the school and kitchen level. Respond to data requests from the service centre with accuracy and speed. Own yield variance analysis — understand the drivers, flag anomalies, and recommend corrective action.

Capacity & Growth Understand your site’s capacity: you know when sites are over- or under-utilized and proactively bring that intelligence to your manager.

Stakeholder Management Build and maintain relationships with other field teams and school leadership in your area. This includes occasional check-ins with the schools you serve to learn about how you and your team can improve the experience. Coordinate and host site visits for F4E staff and donors.

Facility Maintenance Own 100% reporting and escalation of facility maintenance issues; nothing is left unreported, nothing is someone else's problem.

Who You Are You have experience in operations, field management, or program delivery, ideally in food systems, health, or a service organization. You're comfortable spending your days in the field. You don't manage from a desk. You're analytically strong. You can read data, spot a trend, and explain the 'so what' clearly. You hold yourself and others to high standards. You don't wait to be asked to escalate a problem. You build genuine relationships with community stakeholders, local officials, and school leaders. You communicate clearly, upward and downward, and you know the difference between information and insight.

Core Competencies: Technical: Program Implementation Data Literacy & Reporting Budgeting & Financial Management Quality Assurance Logistics & Field Coordination Stakeholder & Community Engagement Risk Assessment & Management Digital tools & data collection Capacity building & training Project/activity management

Soft Skills & Behavioral: Communication Problem Solving & Adaptability Independence & Proactivity Attention to Detail Partnership Coordination Planning & Coordination Compliance & Ethics Ownership & Accountability

Method of Application Interested and qualified? Go to Food For Education on food4education1.careers.hibob.com to apply.

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