Job particulars
- Job title
- Area Operations Officer
- Hiring organisation
- Murang'a
- Location
- Muranga
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- 30 Sept 2026
Key responsibilities
- Conduct structured audits of your sites, ensuring compliance with F4E's SOPs, food safety policies, and operational standards.
- Ensure every site has what it needs to operate: stock, PPE, equipment, and supplies are.
- Support billing processes in partnership with your Regional Coordinator and the finance team.
- Drive timely procurement: 90% of orders submitted on time, every cycle.
- 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.
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Candidate requirements
- Location Muranga
- Job Field Sales and Business Development  .
- 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.
- 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.
Required skills
You have experience in operations, field management, or program delivery, ideally in food systems, health, or a service organizationYou're comfortable spending your days in the field. You don't manage from a deskYou're analytically strong. You can read data, spot a trend, and explain the 'so what' clearlyYou hold yourself and others to high standards. You don't wait to be asked to escalate a problemYou build genuine relationships with community stakeholders, local officials, and school leadersYou communicate clearly, upward and downward, and you know the difference between information and insight
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Hiring organisation
Murang'a