Your privacy is important to us* Assist Governments to design or update multisectoral national school meals plans by identifying sectors beyond education (e.G., health, nutrition, agriculture, social protection, finance, local governance) and diagnosing cross‐sector gaps, bottlenecks, and opportunities.* Support broadening and strengthening of the national school meals ecosystem by engaging additional actors—local governments, civil society, farmer organizations, private‐sector suppliers, academia, and community groups—and clarifying roles and contributions.* Support Governments in translating priorities and technical needs into concrete partnership opportunities by matching them with the right expertise and partners and testing collaboration models for coordinated, effective support.* Follow up on technical assistance with partners, including supporting agreements/contracting aligned with Government priorities, facilitating feedback loops on implementation, and compiling progress updates.* Help establish or strengthen national and subnational coordination platforms by supporting Governments to convene and align ministries, local authorities, civil society, private‐sector actors, and academia around shared school meals goals.* Contribute to building systems‐leadership capacity by supporting Government and country‐team skills in systems thinking, coordination, relational practice, and multisectoral problem‐solving to reinforce long‐term ownership.* Monitor multisectoral ecosystem performance and partner coordination around national plans, generating insights that support adaptive learning and inform SMA’s global strategy and partnership model.* Support knowledge exchange, peer learning, and collaboration across countries, partners, and teams by connecting insights, helping facilitate feedback loops and after‐action reflections, and adapting tools and approaches to strengthen ways of working.* Contribute to updating and maintaining guidance, tools, and resources, ensuring they remain accessible, relevant, and aligned with country needs, and helping to promote clear communication and coordinated teamwork across SMA.* Synthesize insights and emerging trends from partnership and country engagement, contributing them to SMA’s learning, strategy, and decision‐making processes and supporting ongoing improvements to partnership tools, models, and engagement approaches.* Contribute to knowledge products, learning resources, and cross‐team learning, ensuring operational lessons are captured, shared, and integrated to support adaptive implementation across SMA teams and partners.* At least 3 years of experience working in complex, multistakeholder settings, including exposure to government led processes, multisectoral coordination, or ecosystem building across public, private, or social sectors, with a demonstrated commitment to supporting country owned approaches.* Demonstrated international experience collaborating with diverse partners (governments, International Financial Institutions, UN agencies, civil society, private sector, academia) across regions and organizational levels.* Experience supporting country facing work, including contributions to diagnostics, coordination processes, strategy discussions, or cross sector planning, with an emphasis on listening to country priorities and reinforcing national ownership.* Experience contributing to the coordination of diverse actors around shared priorities, using relational skills, curiosity, and constructive engagement to support joint problem-solving and collective understanding.* Ability to help identify how partner mandates and comparative advantages relate to government defined needs, including navigating differing incentives and interests with sound judgment and awareness of political dynamics.* Experience supporting the design, adaptation, or implementation of collaboration approaches in contexts where pathways to change are non linear and require ongoing learning, experimentation, and reflection, consistent with the SMA’s systemic leadership approach.* Demonstrated understanding of systems thinking concepts, with the ability to notice patterns, interdependencies, incentives, and power dynamics across actors and sectors, and to help translate these insights into practical approaches.* Strong relational skills, including the ability to build trust, work productively with different perspectives, manage tension constructively, and contribute to partnerships grounded in shared purpose.* Ability to support facilitation and convening processes, including multisectoral dialogue, collaborative problem solving, the surfacing of diverse viewpoints, and government led coordination and learning.* Adaptive and reflective working style, comfortable adjusting plans based on emerging learning, iterating approaches, and reflecting on assumptions and reactions to strengthen work overtime.* Strong sense making and synthesis abilities, able to summarize complex stakeholder insights, system dynamics, and country realities into clear, useful information, tools, and options for decision making.* Collaborative mindset aligned with SMA’s systemic leadership values, demonstrating curiosity, humility, shared responsibility, and commitment to supporting teams and governments to learn, experiment, and work intentionally in evolving environments.**We see systems change as starting with us:** We notice and work with how our roles, assumptions and responses shape what becomes possible in the system.The Accelerator has 30 core leadership practices (5 per mindset), which are foundational practices expected of everyone working in the Accelerator, regardless of role or grade. They support effective participation in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.* **Core leadership practices.** These are foundational practices expected of everyone working in the Accelerator, regardless of role or grade. They support effective participation in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.* **More systemically demanding leadership practices.** These practices place greater demands on attention, reflexivity and systemic awareness. They often involve working across boundaries, engaging with power and conflict, and staying in learning under conditions of ambiguity or risk.**Reflective engagement.** People are increasingly able to step back from experience and notice their assumptions and reactions, often after the event. Reflection supports learning and adjustment over time, though it is not yet consistently available in the moment.**Intentional engagement**. People actively work with their assumptions, emotions and roles as part of ongoing practice. They are better able to pause, make deliberate choices about how to respond, and adapt their actions in real time under conditions of uncertainty.**Systemic engagement.** People understand their actions as part of wider system dynamics shaped by relationships, power, history and context. They act with awareness of timing, ripple effects and shared responsibility, and are able to support learning and capacity beyond their own role.* All applications must be submitted exclusively through our online recruiting system. We do not consider CVs or applications sent by email, LinkedIn, or any other channel.* We strongly recommend that your Workday profile is accurate and complete, and that all sections are filled in, including your employment history, academic qualifications, language skills, and UN grade (if applicable). Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.* If you experience technical issues while submitting your application, you may contact us at. 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