The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. In emergencies, WFP is often first on the scene, providing food assistance to the victims of war, civil conflict, drought, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, crop failures and natural disasters. When the emergency subsides, WFP helps communities rebuild shattered lives and livelihoods. WFP development projects focus on social protection and safety nets for the vulnerable through nutrition interventions, smallholder agricultural livelihood promotion and market support, school meals and investing in strengthening national capacities to develop and manage sustainable food and nutrition security programmes.

Through its field presence and the various activities it implements, WFP provides support to enhance government capacity to achieve its objectives as outlined in the Pro-Poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development (PAPD). In line with the above, WFP is seeking to strengthen its programme implementation in the field through the recruitment of a Programme Assistant - School Feeding and Resilience Building activities.

JOB PURPOSE:

The Programme Assistant – School Feeding & Resilience will be part of a team of dedicated staff responsible for performing specialized programme implementation functions to support the effective delivery of WFP assistance packages as outlined in the Country Strategic Plan (CSP).

SUPERVISION RECEIVED: The Programme Assistant – School Feeding & Resilience will be reporting to the Programme Policy Officer (Head of Field Office) in the Saclepea Field Office or delegated Officer-in-charge of the Field Office.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

The Programme Assistant – School Feeding & Resilience will be responsible to carry out the following duties:

Perform specialized and/or standardized processes and activities within the specific technical area of work supporting alignment with wider programme policies and guidelines.
Provide specialized project management support to specific and/or defined programmes to ensure that the various activities are performed within the established targets following WFP’s policies and procedures.
Within the specific area of responsibility, prepare a range of reports and data analysis (e.g. food assistance needs, resource utilization, programme status, performance) and highlight trends/issues ensuring deliverables adhere to corporate standards and quality control.
Perform accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work (e.g. School Feeding, Resilience Building, Food Security and Vulnerability Assessments) following corporate standards and guidelines.
Work and exchange information with internal counterparts to support effective collaboration, implementation and monitoring of ongoing project activities.
Support communication and activities with local partners, agencies, NGOs and government institutions.
Act as a point of contact for resolution of general operational queries requesting assistance where necessary.

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

4P Theme

Capability Name

Description of the behavior expected for the proficiency level

Purpose

Understand and communicate the Strategic Objective

Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field

Be a force for positive change

Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity

Make the mission inspiring to our team

Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact

Make our mission visible in everyday actions

Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission

People

Look for ways to strengthen people's skills

Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports

Create an inclusive culture

Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit

Be a coach & provide constructive feedback

Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team

Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit

Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.

Performance

Encourage innovation & creative solutions

Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work

Focus on getting results

Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.

Make commitments and make good on commitments

Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team

Be Decisive

Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field

Partnership

Connect and share across WFP units

Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field

Build strong external partnerships

Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.

Be politically agile & adaptable

Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives

Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships

Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related

functional area is desirable.

Experience

At least four years of experience in monitoring and evaluating the activities of large scale programmes, database management, data collection and conducting surveys at field level, participatory assessment and monitoring, data processing or analysis and computer experience and M&E design experience.

Knowledge

Has experience analyzing programme output and outcome data.

General knowledge of WFP monitoring and evaluation systems and standards.

Desirable Skills

Has facilitated communication with technical teams (i.e. nutrition, VAM, etc.).

Has contributed to implementation of programmes.

Has observed or assisted with policy discussions.

Language

Fluency in both oral and written communication in the English language

SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

Provide support to implementation of various activities under the Saclepea Field Office in alignment with wider programme policies and guidelines;
Provide activities management support to specific programmes to ensure that the various activities are performed within the established targets following WFP’s policies and procedures;
Prepare a range of reports supported through data collection, collation and analysis and highlight issues, successes and to ensure that deliverables adhere to corporate standards and quality programme delivery;
Ensure accurate, timely provision of data on beneficiaries and transfer requirements to support planning and delivery of assistance and food release notes are processed through corporate platforms or tool/s;
Liaise with partners including the Ministries of Education, Agriculture and Gender, Children and Social Protection) to support effective monitoring and reporting of ongoing School Feeding and resilience building programme activities;
Coordinate and communicate with local partners including government to ensure efficient delivery of programme activities including food assistance;
Support the capacity building of cooperating partners and government within the specific technical areas defined under WFP’s programme;
Support internal information sharing with other WFP staff to support effective collaboration, implementation and monitoring of ongoing WFP activities;
Resolve a range of operational queries and problems relating to programme implementation in the field;
Perform other duties as required/assigned.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

Capability Name

Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level

Programme Lifecycle & Food

Assistance

Can facilitate implementation of food assistance programmes under guidance using basic understanding of principles and good practices of programme design, implementation and monitoring.

Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Vouchers)

Demonstrates ability to facilitate, under guidance, food assistance programme implementation that deploys full range of transfer modalities with an understanding of basic principles guiding modality selection and implementation.

Knowledge of Specialized Areas

Understands basic technical concepts and data and their relevance to food

assistance programmes.

Emergency Programming

Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high-quality emergency programmes.

Strategic Policy Engagement

w/Govt

Understands and applies basic principles of engagement with government

counterparts at the national or local level.

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Added 3 years ago - Updated 3 years ago - Source: wfp.org