Programme Assistant (Integrated Resilience) G5 (Basse)

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Title of Post: Programme Assistant (Integrated Resilience) (Basse duty station)

Type of Contract: Fixed Term

Unit/ Division: Programme

Duty Station Basse, The Gambia

Duration: 12 months

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Programmatic Context: The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. In The Gambia, WFP has been supporting the government in schools feeding since 1970. In 2021, WFP in collaboration with the government with funding from the African Development Bank (ADB), embarked on a five-year food security project called Gambia, Agriculture Food Security Project (GAFSP). This project intends to improve Food Security through Crop Production Intensification and School Feeding Programme. The main aim of the project was to increase household food security and income of participating farmers and enhance nutritional status of targeted school children. School Feeding is the largest social safety-net in The Gambia. Continuation on building on WFP’s experience of more than 40 years in the Gambia, school feeding provides support for the establishment of a sustainable, nationally owned home-grown school feeding (HGSF) programme, where food supplied to the schools is being sourced from local smallholder farmers. This was done by reinforcing capacities at the central, regional and community levels for home grown school feeding implementation and management. It is jointly implemented with The Government building capacity for school feeding in the targeted regions, to improve enrolment and retention in early childhood development centers and the basic education cycle. The current programme provides the following strategic shifts; (i) alignment of country portfolio to the National Social Protection Policy; (ii) increased focus on capacity strengthening and national ownership of the SMP, assisting the government to improve modalities and absorb part of the caseload, while providing management and monitoring support; (iii) an integrated resilience intervention, converging nutrition, support to smallholder farmers and resilience building activities to enhance community assets, while providing conditional transfers to those at risk during the lean season; and (iv) field level implementation to technical capacity support to national government in early warning systems and preparedness. WFP is currently seeking a qualified candidate to take up functions of the Programme Assistant (Integrated Resilience) position at Basse Field office.

Job Purpose:

To perform specialized and/or standardized policy and programme-related processes and

activities to support the effective delivery of assistance packages.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):

Under the direct supervision of Senior Programme Assistant, the programme assistant will be responsible for the following duties:

1. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP can quickly respond and deploy needed resources to affected areas at the onset of the crisis.
2. Coordinate and monitor the implementation of WFP DRR/FFA and resilience programme in the field.
3. Provide capacity strengthening to facilitate the alignment of national policies through an integrated approach to food and nutrition security.
4. Ensure that WFP is implementing an integrated resilience package at the field level.
5. Perform accurate, timely recording of data within the programme implementation following corporate standard and guidelines.
6. Provide technical advice, where applicable with a focus on integration of activities where applicable/appropriate in Food for Assets, School feeding, Nutrition, and other WFP programme activities.
7. Produce weekly report of activities performed and review achievement, constraints and provide feedback to the line supervisor.
8. Perform other related duties as assigned from time to time.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE:

• Has facilitated communication with technical teams.
• Has contributed to implementation of programmes.
• Has observed or assisted with policy discussions.
• Knowledge of other WFP standard software packages and systems is an asset.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft software applications particularly MS-Office (Word, Excel, Power points, graphic and Access)

WORK EXPERIENCE: Minimum of five (5) years working experience.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS: Demonstrates a broad knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), food security and resilience building.

STANDARD MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

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

related functional area is desirable.

Language: Fluency in both oral and written English.

Qualified females are encouraged to apply.

Deadline for submission of applications is 30th October 2023

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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