Digital agriculture project manager (Filipino nationals only)

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JOB DETAILS

JOB TITLE: Digital agriculture project manager TYPE OF CONTRACT: SERVICE CONTRACT JOB GRADE: SC-8 UNIT/ DIVISION: NUTRITION DUTY STATION: Cotabato City, Maguindanao, Philippines CONTRACT DURATION: ONE YEAR WITH POSSIBILITY OF EXTENSION

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations 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. WFP is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, in recognition of “…its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war.

BACKGROUND

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food aid arm of the United Nations and the largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition worldwide. For the next two years, WFP will embark on “The Project for the Improvement of Agricultural and Fisheries Value Chain for Smallholder Farmers and Fisherfolk in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).” This will improve the livelihoods, food security, and nutrition of BARMM’s smallholder farmers and fisherfolk. It will also strengthen their inclusion in the agricultural value chain through improved market linkages by applying the WFP invented digital app called Farm2Go, enhanced agricultural productivity, and nutrition-relevant Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBC).

The WFP Philippines Country Office (CO) is looking for a Digital agriculture project manager to assist the successful implementation of the Farm2Go pilot in BARMM.

The Farm2Go application is a WFP’s digital agriculture solution for farmer cooperatives to collect digital, real-time data from smallholder farmers and to facilitate the connection between smallholder farmers, aggregators and traders. The app has multiple functionalities including, but not limited to: Digitizing data records, input ordering, access to finance, and SMS communication. Once live, the app will be assessable in the app store. To date, the platform has been piloted in four countries – Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Bangladesh. The Philippines will be the fifth.

JOB PURPOSE

As the Digital agriculture project manager you will be responsible for ensuring the successful implementation of Farm2Go in BARMM. Your main tasks will primarily focus on supporting the capacity building of the local users at cooperative and trader level, ensuring they understand the solution and supporting the adoption throughout. You will work closely with country office staff but will also be the link between the project team and the WFP technology team responsible for the development of the Farm2Go application. This position is based in the WFP Cotabato Sub Office (SO) and will work under direct supervision of the Head of Sub Office. The consultant is a full-time position based in the WFP Cotabato City Sub-Office (SO). In-person, in-office work and frequent travel in project areas are required, though remote work may be occasionally warranted, depending on minimum public health standards.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Digital agriculture project manager will be responsible for the following duties:

PREPARATION PHASE

• Develop appropriate training materials in the local language for the transfer of knowledge and capacity-building of cooperative leadership and app facilitators on the Farm2Go application
• Facilitate the training of application users, cooperative leaders, and traders.
• Prepare for launch, including alignment of admin rights and user rights, as well as data population including pre-compiled membership data of the respective cooperatives

IMPLEMENTATION PHASE

• Support the cooperatives to use the Farm2Go app to collect and monitor aggregation data.
• Monitoring application adoption, providing support to users.
• Document success metrics and measuring it with regular reporting.
• Provide data analysis support to the CO and SO colleagues.
• Document user feedback and present possible improvements to the application.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (contd.)

EVALUATION PHASE

• Organize a joint review the Farm2Go pilot at two main levels (A) cooperative level, with technical app facilitators and leadership and (B) at the level of implementing partners, including the technical service providers, and WFP Cotabato SO and TEC team.

ENTIRE PHASE

• Overall project management, coordinating with various stakeholders, collecting, and documenting feedback, arranging training workshops and field missions.
• Collaborate with the WFP technical team based in other countries.
• Work flexibly and take on additional tasks as may be needed to meet project and program objectives
• Participate in internal and external meetings as well as relevant trainings or workshops
• Submit a monthly accomplishment report and attendance report as the basis for salary
• Promote WFP safety standards in the local context of the project and coordinate with designated focal persons on gender, safety, security, and wellbeing, as appropriate
• Coordinate with the various departments or units in the CO and SO to ensure full compliance with WFP’s policy, procedures, and standards

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Advanced University degree in technology, project management, communication or other relevant fields.

Experience

Minimum 3 years of progressively responsible experience in managing information technology projects or providing digital solution support

Language: Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different. knowledge of local languages (Maguindanao, Hiligaynon) is an advantage.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE

• • project management experience of digital solutions the Philippines.
  • experience of working with rural beneficiaries and adoption of easy-to-digest learning techniques for new digital solutions.
  • experience in the development of training material and application of common training tools and delivery thereof to rural beneficiaries
  • experience in training facilitation and capacity building
  • exposure to food, nutrition, or health environment in rural areas
  • exposure to gender and protection issues at the community level

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
• Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
• Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
• Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
• Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
• Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
• Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
• Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.
• Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
• Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
• Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
• Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
• Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

Capability Name Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design. Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher) Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development. Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.) Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring. Emergency Programming Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes. Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government Develops thorough recommendations using multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition security programmes.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Has technical knowledge through exposure to technical teams.
• Has taken leadership of implementing programmes.
• Demonstrated ability to provide a consistent and timely client service to meet the changing needs and expectations of clients, allowing clients to actively participate in and contribute to decisions that are relevant to their needs. Makes adjustments to services as required.
• Demonstrative sensitivity to local cultural knowledge, attitude, practices, and beliefs
• Ability to work in a team, and establish effective working relations with results-oriented private sector partners as well as internal WFP clients.
• Good analytical skills; resourcefulness, initiative, maturity of judgment, tact, and negotiating skills.
• Ability to perform and deliver results under time pressure.
• Excellent communication skills both orally and in writing and in multiple contexts.

REMUNERATION PACKAGE

• Approximate monthly total salary: PHP 79,162 min to PHP 105,544 max
• Comprehensive medical insurance coverage that can be extended to eligible dependents

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

The deadline for applications is on 31 October 2022, Monday at 11:59 pm (Manila time). Qualified candidates are required to complete an online candidate profile on UN WFP Careers Website (https://www.wfp.org/careers). Only applications received on this website are considered valid and will be processed and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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