Programme Assistant - School Feeding, SC-5

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This post is open to Cambodian Nationality only

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

WFP’s mission is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 as per Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2. It works to ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Through the Country Strategic Plan 2019-23 (CSP), WFP Cambodia is contributing to achieving Zero Hunger through a combination of direct implementation and systems capacity strengthening at national and sub-national levels. Through the CSP, WFP promotes access to nutritious diets through home grown school feeding and improving climate smart food production and transformation capacities of small holder farming communities, whilst strengthening standards and guidelines for food transformation to satisfy the increasing demand for nutritious processed and convenient foods. WFP supports national and subnational disaster and climate change risk management and the national strategic direction and coordination on food security, nutrition and social protection through enhanced information systems, knowledge management, and public-private and south-south partnerships. WFP also responds to the acute food security and early recovery needs of vulnerable women, men, girls and boys impacted by recurrent disasters.

The CSP aims to contribute to six Strategic Outcomes that are aligned to four corporate Strategic Results of SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for Development). These are

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT

WFP is seeking to recruit a dynamic and experienced Programme Assistant to support the National School Feeding Programme. This position will be based in WFP’s Country Office (CO) as part of WFP’s school feeding team - whilst working across units including programme, monitoring and evaluation, nutrition, reporting and communications – as well as engaging regularly with WFP’s government and NGO partners. To perform specialized and/or standardized policy and programme-related processes and activities to support the effective delivery of assistance packages.

Position Title

Programme Assistant – School Feeding

Type of Contract:

WFP Service Contract

Grade:

SC-5

Duty Station:

WFP Country Office

Reporting Line:

Under overall supervision of the Head of School Feeding, this position will report directly to the Programme Policy Officer (School Feeding).

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Support the implementation of the transition strategy of the national Home-Grown School Feeding programme, providing administrative support and tracking progress.
2. Perform specialized and/or standardised processes and activities within the specific technical area of work supporting alignment with wider programme policies and guidelines.
3. Provide project management and/or general office support following established targets and WFP’s policies and procedures.
4. Within the specific area of responsibility, compile data and support analysis and preparation of reports (e.g. food assistance needs, resource utilization, programme status, performance) in order to support operational decision-making.
5. Perform accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work (e.g. food security and vulnerability assessments) following corporate standards and guidelines.
6. Work and exchange information with internal counterparts to support effective collaboration, implementation and monitoring of ongoing project activities.
7. Support communication and activities with local partners, agencies, NGOs and government institutions.
8. Act as a point of contact for resolution of general operational queries requesting assistance where necessary.
9. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly respond and deploy needed resources to affected areas at the onset of the crisis.

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

1. Support the documentation of the government’s Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) transition process and track progress of recommendations, actions and milestones.
2. Assist in the preparation, execution and follow up of meetings, workshop and missions relevant to the national HGSF development.
3. Work with MoEYS/WFP to update or develop training tools and disseminate to relevant stakeholders on HGSF programme, including contributing to HGSF operational guidance, tools and systems; school environment components including WASH, food safety and nutrition activities; and ensuring these are incorporated in the handover implementation package on the ground for both WFP and national programme.
4. Participate in operational learning activities through field visits and back to office reports, including engaging in joint discussions, and supporting taking forward key lessons learnt from the field operations to assist in national programme implementation and management.
5. In collaboration with relevant WFP and MoEYS staff, prepare and disseminate advocacy and communications publications (posters, leaflets, briefs, factsheets, etc.) to support school feeding implementation and strategy.
6. Ensure gender is considered throughout all areas of work under the post.
7. Perform other duties as required.

STANDARD MINIMUM 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 communication in English language.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Has a minimum of five years in the field of education, social protection or development sectors including project management.
• Has experience utilizing computers, including Microsoft Office package (e.g. Word, Excel) and other standard software packages and systems
• Has familiarity working with programme monitoring and evaluation processes.
• Has experience working with different types of external stakeholders at national and sub-national levels.
• Knowledge of the UN rules, procedures and regulations would be an asset.

HOW TO APPLY

• Create an account on the WFP Career Website: http://www1.wfp.org/careers/job-openings
• Under Filter By “Country”, type “Cambodia” and select the position you want to apply to.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

The vacancy will be closed on Monday, 26 September 2022 at 17:00 GMT+7

Female applicants and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

WFP is committed to an inclusive working environment which values diversity

and has zero tolerance for discrimination, harassment and abuse of any kind.

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• WFP recognizes the positive potential of flexible working arrangements to enable staff members the opportunity to select and alter their work schedules to better fit personal needs and help balance work, personal, and family responsibilities whenever operationally possible.
• WFP is committed to gender equality and parity (50% women and 50% men) and to diversity more generally, among employees across all grades, functions and contract modalities.
• WFP offers an attractive salary and other benefits, including annual leave, parental leave and health insurance for staff and eligible dependents.
• WFP Work Environment: WFP is committed to ensuring that all its workplaces are free from abuse, offensive behaviour, harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. WFP does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS and disability status. WFP is also committed to promoting a work culture in which every employee understands, and is able to carry out, his/her personal responsibilities for maintaining the dignity of work colleagues. WFP seeks to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women. We believe our mission of fighting global hunger worldwide can only be achieved if women, men, girls and boys are offered equal opportunities in terms of access to resources and services, and participation in decision making roles.