School Accelerator - Business Support Assistant G4

Position: School Meals Accelerator - Business Support Assistant G4
## School Meals Accelerator - Business Support Assistant G4

Apply locations:
Rome, Italytime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
JR124101
** Final date to receive applications
** 1 July 2026-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)
** ABOUT THE SCHOOL MEALS ACCELERATOR
** School Meals Accelerator (the Accelerator) is the fifth and newest initiative under the School Meals Coalition, operating as an independent initiative while being hosted by the World Food Programme (WFP). It is designed to support governments to scale and strengthen their national school meal programmes and turn their ambitions into real impact. Acting as a network catalyst and convenor, the Accelerator mobilizes resources and expertise from the right partners to deliver strategic technical assistance where it matters most.
The Accelerator’s mission: unlock the full potential of national school meal programs by improving design, scaling investment, and fostering collaboration across education, health, and food systems. It embraces a systems-thinking approach, adapts to country priorities, and thrives in deep collaboration among global, regional, and local actors. The Accelerator’s ambition: to help low- and lower-middle-income countries reach an additional 100 million children by 2030, making school meals a cornerstone of human capital development and a global standard of care.

The Accelerator operates in conditions of high complexity. Because it operates as a network facilitator rather than a traditional organization, its work spans multiple countries, organisations and institutional logics, and seeks to support system-level change rather than the delivery of predefined solutions.
For this reason, the Accelerator has adopted a systemic leadership approach, which accepts that pathways to change are non-linear, and progress depends on learning, adaptation and collaboration across boundaries. Working in this way places ongoing demands on those involved and requires leaders who are able to work productively with uncertainty, difference and incomplete authority while maintaining accountability for results. Joining the Accelerator team therefore means being part of a first-of-its-kind development enterprise: a systems-focused effort to drive lasting, country-led change that requires a willingness to learn, adapt and be shaped by the work as it evolves.
** ABOUT

THE ROLE
** We are seeking to fill the position of
** Business Support Assistant G4
** for the
** School Meals Accelerator**, based in
** WFP Headquarters in Rome, Italy**.Please note that this vacancy announcement is being issued internally and externally. For more details, please check the Terms and Conditions.

Only applications received in English will be considered.

The Business Support Assistant provides routine operational and administrative support to the School Meals Accelerator team, contributing to the smooth delivery of business support services. The role supports front office operations, logistics, data management, and administrative processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with established procedures.

By delivering well-organized and reliable support, the Assistant enables colleagues to effectively implement the Accelerator’s activities and contributes to the overall efficiency of the team.
** KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):
*** Gather information with clear direction to support the drafting of documents and preparing reports by other staff.
* Respond to queries and escalate where appropriate, in order to provide a timely and accurate service to clients.
* Support processing and managing routine administrative and financial tasks in various functional areas, to contribute to the effective and timely management of resources.
* Provide revision and proof-reading services for standard documents, to contribute to the development of accurate documentation.
* Take responsibility for the maintenance of set standard systems and files, to ensure information is accurate and readily available for the function.
* Identify simple discrepancies in statistics and data, such as missing information, and report to senior staff in…