Programme Policy Officer NOA

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El PMA busca candidatos de la máxima integridad y profesionalidad que compartan nuestros principios humanitarios.

La selección del personal se hace sobre una base competitiva, y estamos comprometidos a promover la diversidad, la discapacidad y el equilibrio de género.

ABOUT WFP

El Programa Mundial de Alimentos de las Naciones Unidas es el mayor organismo humanitario que lucha contra el hambre en el mundo. La misión del PMA es ayudar al mundo a lograr el Hambre Cero en nuestras vidas. Cada día, el PMA trabaja en todo el mundo para garantizar que ningún niño se acueste con hambre y que los más pobres y vulnerables, en particular las mujeres y los niños, puedan acceder a los alimentos nutritivos que necesitan.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Educación:

• Universitaria en Ciencias Sociales y/o Económicas;
• Estudios o Título de Maestría sería una ventaja.

Idiomas: Español como lengua materna e inglés fluido, nivel C, hablado y escrito

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

Supervisión: Bajo la supervisión directa de la Directora Adjunta de País

JOB PURPOSE

Prestar apoyo a las actividades normativas y programáticas que satisfagan eficazmente las necesidades de asistencia alimentaria.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Contribute towards the development of a limited number of projects, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider programme policies and guidance.
2. Provide project management support to specific and defined programmes and projects of small to moderate size that are relatively straight forward in nature, ensuring a coordinated approach with wider programmes that complies with WFP standards and procedures.
3. Follow data gathering and monitoring systems ensuring that rigorous quality standards are maintained.
4. Research and analyse policy and operational issues to support senior colleagues in the development of policies, programmes and activities.
5. Contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on programmes and activities that enable informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
6. Liaise with internal counterparts to ensure effective collaboration, monitor ongoing projects.
7. Support the identification, development and management of potential partnerships to collaborative working leading to improved food assistance packages.
8. Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government to prepare for and respond to food assistance needs, e.g. through project management support of learning initiatives.
9. Provide guidance to support staff, acting as a point of referral and assisting them with analysis and queries.
10. Other as required.

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.

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

This section is optional to describe additional responsibilities & knowledge required for the specific job.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

Experiencia:

• Por lo menos 6 años de experiencia progresiva e los cuales por lo menos 3 años relacionados directamente en monitoreo y evaluación, manejo de datos estadísticos para análisis y presentación de resultados.
• Experiencia en manejo de fondos y equipos de personal bajo responsabilidad directa.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Se ofrece Contrato de Servicios, Service Contract por sus siglas en inglés SC al nivel L9, por un períod de 06 meses con probabilidades de extensión por un año.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Lunes 16 de noviembre de 2020 a la media noche.

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Se estimula una amplia participación en las candidaturas a esta posición.

El Programa Mundial de Alimentos está comprometido con el cumplimiento la promoción de la igualdad de oportunidades para todas las personas desde las perspectivas de género y discapacidad, así como mantener una política de respeto a la diversidad y multiculturalidad

El PMA tiene una tolerancia cero a la discriminación y no discrimina en función de la situación del VIH/SIDA.

No se ofrecerá ningún tipo de nombramiento a los miembros de la Comisión Consultiva en Asuntos Administrativos y de Presupuesto (CCAAP) de las Naciones Unidas, la Comisión de Administración Pública Internacional (CAPI), el Comité de Finanzas de la FAO, el Auditor Externo del PMA, el Comité de Auditoría del PMA, la Dependencia Común de Inspección (DCI) y otros órganos similares del sistema de las Naciones Unidas que tengan responsabilidades de supervisión del PMA, tanto durante su servicio como en los tres años siguientes a su cese.