Programme Associate - Food Systems - G6, Garoowe Puntland Area Office

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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.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Provide supervisory support and ensure timely project progress for WFP’s Food Systems interventions, particularly around food value chains involving smallholder farmers and cooperatives.
• Directly support the implementation of food systems, livelihood, and resilience initiatives.
• Provide supervision and technical support for capacity building or strengthening and hands-on training in specialized areas related to agricultural / livestock production, post-harvest loss management, and access to markets.
• Identify and manage potential partnerships, opportunities, and linkages with other stakeholders to improve food systems and resilience interventions in target areas.
• Coordinate and supervise the cooperating partners and actively monitor progress and performance, ensuring that project deadlines and targets are met.
• Act as a focal point for intervention proposals from CPs including:
  • Review of proposals along with implementation caseload, geographical coverage, transfer modalities and minimum expenditure basket, as well as the budget line items (keeping in mind the CSP rates)
  • Prepare note for records (NFRs) for Technical Units’ review and endorsement by the Country Office
  • Review/analyse and present CPs proposals for management approval and where applicable, adopt / implement recommendations in revised NFRs or budgets.
  • Manage and coordinate Field Level Agreements with Cooperating Partners (CPs), including communication and documentation.

WHAT WILL YOU DO (2)?

• Coordinate beneficiary data management platform (SCOPE) and other related corporate systems like COMET to facilitate assistance to served communities in Puntland.
• Liaise with internal counterparts to support effective collaboration, implementation, monitoring and reporting of ongoing programme activities.
• Act as a point of contact for resolution of a range of operational queries and problems. Oversee and/or review the work of other WFP and partners’ staff, providing practical advice and guidance, to contribute to delivering objectives to agreed standards and deadlines.
• Prepare a range of reports (e.g monthly & quarterly reports), and data analysis (e.g., project sites surveys, market analysis, assistance needs, resource utilization, programme status & performance) and highlight trends/issues ensuring deliverables adhere to corporate standards and quality control.
• Foster relationships and communication with relevant stakeholders, such as other cooperating partners, UN agencies, coordination mechanisms, government, and community members.
• Review, analyse and verify report documents and ensure accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
• Support the capacity building of WFP staff, cooperating partners, and national government within a specific technical area.
• Guide cooperating partners and staff to document good practices and lessons learnt to strengthen WFP’s learning agenda, demonstrate impact, and inform appropriate programme implementation adjustments.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor.

DO YOU MEET THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATION?S

Education: Secondary certificate. A post-secondary certificate or Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, Agribusiness, Development Studies, Economics, Social Sciences, or any other field relevant to development assistance.

Experience:

• Six years of experience with secondary certificate or three years of work experience with bachelors degree in climate-smart, disaster risk reduction and resilience programmes designing, implementation and monitoring, and coordination with government and development actors.
• Proven experience and ability to work under pressure and independently on technical matters with minimum supervision.Experience in safety nets programming is desirable.
• Knowledge and experience of the use of beneficiary data management systems like WFP’s SCOPE is desirable.
• Understanding of resilience and development programmes in humanitarian context

Language: Fluency in English and Somali languages is a requirement .

ARE COMPETENT FOR THIS JOB? DO YOU POSSESS SKILLS IN?

• Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance
• Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher)
• Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.)
• Emergency Programming
• Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• Contract duration: 1 year (initial)

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Closing Date : 27th April 2024 : East African Time

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WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment

WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.