Programme Associate (General Food Assistance & School Feeding) G6, Tindouf, Algeria

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS

JOB TITLE Programme Associate (General Food Assistance & School Feeding) TYPE & LEVEL OF CONTRACT Fixed Term, GS-6 CONTRACT DURATION 1 year with possibility of extension UNIT/DIVISION Programme DUTY STATION (City, Country) Tindouf, Algeria REPORT TO (JOB TITLE) Head of Programmes Note: Algerian nationals/citizens or candidates with valid Algerian workpermit/residency are eligible to apply. This vacancy announcement will also be used to build a roster of prequalified applicants for future opportunities within same job profile.

Interested candidates are required to submit their CVs and Cover Letter in English language only.

"For the vacancy, candidates are expected to be present at the duty station. All applicants should ensure they are prepared, both physically and emotionally, to effectively perform in the conditions of Tindouf as the duty station"

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

Since 2019, WFP’s Algeria country office is implementing its Interim Country Strategic Plan (2019–2024) which has two strategic outcomes and four activities that contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2, achieving Zero Hunger. The strategic outcomes are derived from stakeholder consultations and have the aim of ensuring the food and nutrition security of the Sahrawi refugees, in collaboration with WFP’s partners. In this interim country strategic plan, consideration of nutrition issues will be systematically mainstreamed into all WFP interventions. General food assistance will be designed to provide as nutritious and diverse food basket as possible. School feeding activities will be nutrition-sensitive and gender-responsive to address nutrition concerns. A new approach will be taken to resilience building, supporting institutional and individual capacity strengthening through various complementary livelihood activities, and enhancing synergies and cross-fertilization among activities and with partners’ operations. Under strategic outcome 1, WFP will meet basic food needs in the camps through the provision of unconditional food assistance, nutrition-sensitive school feeding and complementary livelihood activities. Strategic outcome 2 has the aim of improving the nutrition status of targeted, vulnerable camp residents through the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls, children aged from 6 to 59 months, girls and boys and the prevention of malnutrition in pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls. WFP will address malnutrition and contribute to anaemia reduction by improving prevention and treatment, raising awareness of good nutrition and ensuring that all of its interventions are nutrition sensitive. To deliver food and nutrition assistance, WFP is using both in-kind and cash transfer modalities. Unconditional food assistance and nutrition-sensitive school feeding are implemented through in-kind distribution respectively of dry food basket composed of cereals, pulses and vegetable oil and mid-morning snack composed by high energy biscuits, gofio porridge and dry skimmy milk. The school feeding programme aims to improve food security and nutrition status of scholarized children while encouraging school attendance and performance rate.

JOB PURPOSE:

To provide effective specialized support to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food and nutrition assistance needs especially in line with unconditional food assistance and school feeding workstreams.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Under the direct supervision of Head of Programme (HoP), the Programme Associate will be responsible for the following tasks and functions:

1. Assist the Head of Programme (HoP) in the development, preparation, implementation, and follow-up of the food assistance and the school feeding program activities as follows:
   • Prepare and organize for different internal and external missions to WFP including donor missions. This includes liaising with different units (Programme, RAM, Supply Chain, External relations, and IT) and partners to agree on the activities and sites to be visited by the mission, preparing the agenda of the visit, circulating it with the whole team and stakeholders prior to the mission, participating in the mission and reporting back to HoP on the overall outcome of the mission.
   • In consultation and liaison with different activity managers, participate in monitoring and following up on the implementation of different programme activities especially GFA and school meals programme and ensure provision of concrete feedback on the progress made and bottleneck issues to consider for further improvement of the activities.
   • In collaboration and consultation with activity managers and other relevant units, analyse and prepare the actual Food Release Notes (FRNs) covering different activities well in advance, take all the necessary actions required on WINGs (mainly loans and repayment), clear FRNs from HoP and approve it from the management, and finally circulate it with the activity managers and different stakeholders. In case of funding shortfalls, the programme Associate will liaise and discuss with HoP the best scenario to follow prior to moving in drafting the FRNs and will notify the activity managers accordingly.
   • To organize and call for the local “Food Security Meeting“ with all actors in Tindouf, chair the meeting, present WFP activities to audience, draft the minutes of the meeting and finally to share it with all Food Security Sector members in Tindouf.
   • Ensure the full Cooperating Partners’ (CPs) management cycle related to Unconditional Food assistance and School feeding: analysing CP’s proposals, participating in Cooperating Partners’ Committee meetings, drafting Memorandum of Understandings/Field Level Agreements, tracking and monitoring CP’s budget expenditures, raising Purchase Requisitions/Purchase Orders related to FLA budget, following up any assessments, organizing workshops with partners, participate in CP’s annual performance evaluation , assist in conducting the partnerships mapping exercise and follow up the implementation of action plans developed for the improvement of different activities.
   • Prepare a range of reports and data analysis (e.g., food assistance needs, resource utilization, programme status, performance) highlighting trends/issues to enable informed decision making and ensuring deliverables adhere to corporate standards and quality control.
   • Undertake field visits to supervise the programme implementation and to strengthen CPs and local actors’ capacity to implement and to report on both programmes
   • Built sustainable partnership with Education and Food Security sectors’ members to ensure collaboration, good coordination, complementary and synergy.
2. Act as the focal point for donor communication and visibility in the field office: under the direction of the Partnerships, Reporting and Communication Officer. Collect photos, videos and other materials and assist in the preparation of communication products that effectively convey the desired message to the target audience(s), including social media posts, articles, etc.
3. Perform other operational duties as required by the programme.

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, Vouchers) Demonstrates ability to implement, under guidance, food assistance programmes deploying the full range of transfer modalities with an understanding of basic principles guiding modality selection and implementation. Broad 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/Government Understands and applies basic principles of engagement with government counterparts at the national or local level.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

Completion of secondary school education, preferably supplemented by a university degree in business administration, social sciences, project management in line with humanitarian or development.

Experience:

• Minimum six years of progressive work experience in food assistance, nutrition and school feeding or similar activities.
• Experiences in communication, community mobilisation and project management are essential.
• Experiences in working in a refugee setting is an asset.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Demonstrated commitment to accuracy and the ability to work on multiple tasks often on a time sensitive manner.
• Personal commitment, flexibility and efficiency and proven capacity to work under pressure.
• Proficient in advanced usage of MS Office, particularly Excel and Word.
• Strong report writing skills.
• Basic skills in financial invoice tracking and management
• Capacity to transfer competencies and to learn from others

Language:

Fluency in both spoken and written communication in Arabic and English is a requirement. Proficiency in French at an intermediate level is expected, and knowledge of Spanish is considered an asset.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Sunday, 08 October 2023 (11:59 PM Algeria Standard 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.