Programme Policy Officer (Home Grown School Feeding)-NOB Kampala

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ABOUT WFP

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) 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. In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 80 countries each year. The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to food and contribute to lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas.

Brief description of WFP in Uganda

WFP delivers food assistance in emergencies and work with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. WFP provides life-saving food assistance and livelihood opportunities to refugees in Uganda. In addition, WFP assists the most vulnerable people in Karamoja with food and nutrition assistance. Finally, WFP works with smallholder farmers and links them to markets.

As Uganda strives to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and become a middle-income country by 2040, WFP is also assessing its relevance and repositioning its role in Uganda.

ARE YOU UP TO THE CHALLENGE?

We are seeking a qualified individual for the position of Programme Policy Officer- Home Grown School Feeding to be based in Kampala. Selected candidates will be employed on Fixed Term Contract.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

The goal of the programme is to provide food and nutrition security for children throughout their primary and secondary school period, toward long-term benefits to recipients, and achieve measurable progress toward the sustainable transfer to the Ugandan Government of direct implementation of a nationally led HGSF approach to school feeding in Karamoja that will continue to benefit the education, attendance, and graduation of primary and secondary school children in the region. This programme activity will support four strategic objectives.

JOB PURPOSE

To provide effective technical and operational support to the school feeding programme that meets the objectives of WFP food assistance needs. She/he will be responsible for any school feeding related issue implemented in the Uganda Country Office.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (1/2)

• Lead the effective management of school feeding programme in Uganda in internal and external coordination with relevant stakeholders and cooperating partners. Ensure that leadership of this role enables innovation, flexibility, and adaption to shifting circumstances

• Provide overall technical backstopping and guidance on the implementation of Home-Grown School Feeding programme to the Area Offices

• Liaise with Food Systems/Resilience unit to ensure the activity implementation is in line with WFP’s corporate guidelines, feeds into policy and strategic discussions • Identify capacity gaps at national and sub national levels and search for innovative solutions

• Management and guidance of staff and focal points designated for the School Feeding programme ensuring that the operational and implementation plan are organised, reporting is effective, engagement with partners and relevant stakeholders is supportive.

• Provide support and capacity building where necessary, to ensure this is implemented smoothly.

• Regular oversight missions to the selected provinces within the area of responsibility – acting as the focal point for higher-level engagement with relevant internal and external stakeholders. Joint oversight missions and coordination with relevant WFP staff from other departments.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (2/2)

• Liaise with relevant internal operational units for follow-up on tasks related to finance, supply chain, procurement, reporting, external engagements, partnerships, and relevant regional and HQ engagements. • Problem solving of any challenges that present a risk to WFP, its partners, and the project by providing innovative and forward-looking solutions.

• Compilation of reports that encompass all programmatic aspects of school feeding.

• Representation of WFP and school feeding at any UN or humanitarian/development coordination meeting and working groups.

• Engagement with other UN or NGO bodies that are implementing complimentary or related programming in responsibility.

• Contribute to the development of strategic and innovate solutions for the scale up and diversification of future school feeding mechanism.

• Other as required.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education and experience:

The ideal candidate for the job placement should hold an advanced University degree obtained from a recognised education institution in any of the following areas: Education, International Affairs, Economics & Planning, Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences, or other field relevant to international development assistance, or First University Degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses

A minimum of seven (7) years relevant working experience coordinating or managing programmes in reputable organisations in any of the following areas: Education, Agriculture, Livelihood, Nutrition, Policy, or any other related area.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

Desired Experience for entry into the role.

• An understanding of the principles, issues and global frameworks relating to school feeding health and nutrition;
• Experience in undertaking similar or related studies; Familiarity with the Uganda policy environment on education, school feeding, health and nutrition, knowledge of education systems strengthening,
• Experience working with government entities
• Excellent analytical, communication and drafting skills are required; Maturity, initiative, courtesy, tact and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with people of different national and cultural backgrounds
• Ability to work under tight deadlines.

Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English essential.

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 Displays ability to identify the main hunger problem at the national or subnational level to design and implement context-specific programmes that integrate complex analysis and the full range of food assistance tools. 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 ability to translate understanding of programme principles in emergencies and protracted conflict situations into relevant, effective, and context specific approaches. 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.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

1st July 2022

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All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.