Local Commodities Coordinator — Save the Children

The essentials: Save the Children International is looking for a Local Commodities Coordinator for the Nourish to Learn (Nutrir para Aprender) programme, based in Matola. There is 1 vacancy. Applications run until 6 November 2026, and you apply through the organisation's careers portal, with your CV and cover letter, in Portuguese and in English.

About the organisation and the programme

The organisation is humanitarian, not-for-profit, with a focus on the well-being of the child. The Nutrir para Aprender programme supports the feeding of 245 schools, with the foodstuffs sourced from producers and suppliers in the region. The logic of the programme is straightforward: make sure the child eats so that they can learn.

Local sourcing is the logistical heart of the programme. By buying the foodstuffs from local producers, the distribution route is shorter, the food reaches the schools fresher, and the programme reduces its dependence on external supply.

The post keeps this logistical and control dimension of the supply going. It is field work: it involves frequent travel to markets, suppliers and schools, and direct contact with the supply actors and with the programme's teams. Whoever holds the post links what happens in the field to the programme's coordination — deciding what is bought, where and in what quantity.

What you will do day to day

The main activities of the post are as follows:

• Implement the programme's food-commodities management system, taking custody, accounting and preparing the reports for the foodstuffs purchased locally.
• Together with the School Feeding Coordinators, analyse the local procurement needs of each school taking part in the Nutrir para Aprender programme.
• Provide the purchase estimates needed for the local procurement.
• Carry out an assessment of the market and of the suppliers at district level.
• Source local suppliers of fruit and vegetables.
• Implement the anti-fraud measures within the programme.

In day-to-day terms, the activities chain together: the market assessment shows where to buy, the analysis of each school's needs defines what to acquire, the purchase estimates turn that into volume, and the custody and the reports make sure everything is recorded and controlled. The anti-fraud measures run through all of these steps.

The work is done in coordination with the School Feeding Coordinators in each district and with the programme's central teams. It is a role in which the candidate interacts with those who supply, with the producers and with the internal teams, and must keep open communication between all those involved so that the procurement runs without disruption.

The supply runs on its own calendar: with each cycle, it is this post that matches the supply available on the market with each school's need, so that the feeding does not fail. It is work in which regularity matters as much as control.

Done well, this post makes sure that no school in the programme is left without its share of the supply. That is the assurance the programme places in the person who holds it.

How to apply

The address of the careers portal is this: careers portal (function 16956). Submit your application in that portal by 6 November 2026 — it is the only official application channel for this vacancy.

You do not submit this process through Inademy.

Remuneration

The organisation does not disclose the remuneration in this posting. The value is negotiable and is to be agreed directly with the organisation.

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