Value Chain and Food System Consultant CST II, Guatemala City Guatemala The Republic

## Value Chain and Food System Consultant CST II, Guatemala City - Organization:WFP - World Food Programme - Office:WFP in Guatemala City, Guatemala DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability. The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. 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TITLE:Value Chain and Food System ConsultantTYPE OF CONTRACT:International Consultant level CST 2UNIT/DIVISION:ProgrammeDUTY STATION (City, Country):GuatemalaDURATION:11 months BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:Within the framework of the World Food Programme (WFP) Guatemala Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2026-2030, Strategic Outcome 2 (SO2) seeks to contribute to more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive food systems through the strengthening of value chains, market systems, and institutional capacities that expand economic opportunities, improve market participation, and support access to nutritious foods. This outcome recognizes that addressing food insecurity, malnutrition, climate vulnerability, and rural poverty require integrated approaches that strengthen productive systems, market linkages, and the enabling environment for sustainable development. To achieve this, SO2 promotes a systemic approach focused on strengthening key value chain functions, including productivity, value addition, market integration, access to finance, climate resilience, and innovation. Through these interventions, WFP seeks to enhance the competitiveness and sustainability of value chains while fostering stronger linkages among producers, markets, institutions, and private sector actors, contributing to more dynamic and inclusive rural economies. Within this framework, WFP serves as a facilitator and convener of partnerships among public institutions, local governments, private sector actors, producer organizations, and communities, fostering capacity strengthening, innovation, evidence generation, and cross-sectoral coordination. This support aims to strengthen national and local capacities to build food systems that deliver improved outcomes in food security, nutrition, resilience, and local economic development. As WFP Guatemala expands its portfolio on value chain development under SO2, there is a growing need for specialized expertise to support strategic planning, market analysis, programme innovation, evidence generation, and capacity strengthening. The consultant will serve as a senior technical advisor, providing strategic guidance and mentorship to WFP teams and partners while supporting the identification, design, and scaling of value chain interventions that contribute to the objectives of the CSP 2026-2030. JOB PURPOSEThe consultant will provide strategic and operational leadership to advance WFP Guatemala's food systems and value chain portfolio under Strategic Outcome 2. The position will lead technical coordination, implementation support, partnership development, evidence generation, and resource mobilization efforts aimed at strengthening inclusive, resilient, and nutrition-sensitive food systems. The consultant will support WFP and its partners in identifying, implementing, and scaling innovative solutions that enhance market opportunities, improve access to nutritious foods, and contribute to sustainable rural development. ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:1. Strategic leadership and Porfolio development: - Provide strategic and technical leadership for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of WFP Guatemala's portfolio on value chain development, food systems transformation, and market-based approaches under Strategic Outcome 2. - Support the identification of strategic priorities, operational plans, and opportunities for growth and scale. 2. Technical oversight and implementation support Provide technical oversight and implementation support to ongoing value chain, food systems, and market systems interventions, ensuring quality delivery, timely execution, achievement of results, alignment with WFP strategies, donor commitments, and government priorities. 3. Marketing and demanding nutritious foods Lead the design and application of market-based, behavioral, and social marketing approaches that strengthen demand for nutritious foods, improve market linkages, support healthy food environments, and contribute to food systems transformation objectives. 4. Capacity strengthening and team mentoring Provide technical guidance, coaching, mentoring, and capacity strengthening WFP staff, cooperating partners, consultants, and government counterparts, enhancing technical expertise in value chains development, agribusiness, market systems, access to finance, and partnership management. 5. Programme innovation and scaling for value chain solutions Identify, develop, test, and support the scaling of innovative solutions, business models, and partnerships that enhance competitiveness, resilience, inclusion, and nutrition outcomes across priority value chains and food systems interventions. 6. Integration across thematic areas Facilitate collaboration across programme, nutrition, school feeding, climate resilience, gender, social protection, monitoring and evaluation, communications, and partnerships teams to ensure integrated, coherent, and scalable approaches that maximize programme impact and sustainability 7. Partnership development and stakeholder engagement Lead engagement with government institutions, private sector actors, financial institutions, producer organizations, academia, and development partners to strengthen collaboration, leverage technical expertise, promote innovation, and advance sustainable food systems and value chain development objectives. 8. Monitoring, learning and adaptative management Identified and created a mechanism to organize documentation, and dissemination of evidence, knowledge products, lessons learned, good practices, and innovative approaches to support evidence-based decision-making, organizational learning, and programme quality. 9. Knowledge