Programme Policy Officer- Agriculture SC8- Bounneau

Programme & Policy

Overview

Provide support to policy and programme activities effectively meeting food assistance needs.

You have:

• Master degree in disaster management, environmental management and climate change adaptation, community development, agriculture, or relevant field.
• At least eight years of relevant working experience in rural community development or equivalent.
• Three years experience in emergency responses.
• Excellent word processing skills and excel skills.
• Good inter-personal skills and ability to work in a team.
• Experience in designing and delivering emergency response to disaster affected populations.
• Experience in Social Behavior Change Communication to affected communities.
• Experience in capacity strengthening at national and local level in disaster preparedness and response.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

This job is found in Lao Country Office and job holder report to Head of Programme and overall supervision by Deputy Country Director. Job holder is likely to be working under the close support and guidance of a more experienced professional staff member receiving guidance and regular feedback on work performed. S/he is typically involved in programme or policy activities or similar nature and analytical work of limited complexity.

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.

JOB PURPOSE

To provide support to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Provide specialized expertise – particularly in agriculture and rural development - and contribute towards the development of project activities, plans and processes within the specific technical area of work ensuring alignment with wider programme policies and guidelines.
• Provide efficient coordination and specialized project management support to a range of 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 variety of elaborated reports and substantial data analysis (e.g. food assistance needs, resource utilization, programme status, performance) and make recommendations to supervisors, ensuring deliverables adhere to corporate standards and quality control.
• Lead and ensure accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work (e.g. assistance programmes, food security and vulnerability assessments) and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
• Foster relationships and support partnership-building with local partners, agencies, NGOs and government institutions to perform accurate food security analyses and to ensure efficient delivery of food assistance.
• Support the capacity building of WFP staff, cooperating partners and national government within a specific technical area.
• Act as an escalation point for complex query resolution on all matters within the area of responsibility.
• Lead program implementation in the field with support staff, providing advice, guidance and training, to ensure individual and team objectives are delivered to agreed standards and deadlines.
• 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.

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
• Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
• Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
• Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
• Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
• Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
• Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
• Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.
• Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
• Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
• Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
• Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
• Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.

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, Voucher) Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development. Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.) Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring. Emergency Programming Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes. Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government Develops thorough recommendations using multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition security programmes.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Master degree in disaster management, environmental management and climate change adaptaion, community development, agriculture, other field relevant to international development assistance, or First University Degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• At least eight years relevant working experience in rural community development or equivalent is preferable and three years experience in emergency responses;
• Excellent word processing skills and excel skills;
• Good inter-personal skills and ability to work in a team, including sound communication skills; analytical skills, flexible and programmatic; ability to handle multitask with effectiveness and efficiency;
• Experience in designing and delivering emergency response to disaster affected populations and cash transfer programmes and accountability to effected populations mechanisms in Lao PDR;
• Experience in Social Behavior Change Communication to affected communities;
• Experience in capacity strengthening at national and local level in disaster preparedness and response in Lao PDR

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Contryact type: Service Contract (for Lao national only)

Position Title: Programme Policy Officer (Emergency Preparedness and Response)

Duty Station: Vientiane

Duration: 12 months (extendable to maximum 18 months)

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Posting date: 1 October 2020

Closing date: 13 October 2020

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Potential interview questions

Added 5 years ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: wfp.org