Programme Policy Officer (Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation)P3

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WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

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.

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GLOBAL COMMUNITY 🌍 Build bridges that unite people across the world. Being part of a global, diverse and multicultural community like WFP, will continuously expose you to new ideas and perspectives.

UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES 💡 Unlock possibilities you never thought you'd find. WFP goes anywhere it is needed and does whatever it takes to get the job done.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT AND JOB PURPOSE

With the emergence of the Syria crisis and the influx of Syrian refugees, WFP’s operations in Jordan have largely been humanitarian, focusing on meeting immediate humanitarian needs through food assistance. WFP’s Country Strategic Plan (2020-2022) signals a longer-term vision and strategic shift where additional emphasis will be put on supporting vulnerable Jordanians and refugees (both Syrian and from other nationalities) with resilience building through livelihood activities (training, income-generating opportunities, asset creation) to respond to structural and chronic challenges alongside shorter-term needs and humanitarian programmes.

Under its resilience building and livelihood activities portfolio, WFP Jordan pursues three outcomes: higher incomes and employment, increased resilience to shocks and enhanced value chains for four key target groups: youth, women, refugees and smallholders. In face of the critical water-food-energy nexus in Jordan, climate change adaptation and use of climate-smart technologies are core under the activities.

WFP intervenes in both rural and urban contexts and at three levels, namely household, community and institutional, in order to strengthen absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacities for resilience building and sustainable food security. The four main priority activity clusters are: disaster risk reduction and environmental management, sustainable market and enterprise development, climate-smart smallholder agricultural support, and social protection and seasonal safety nets.

This portfolio is characterized by four features: 1) community-focused (participatory approaches), 2) government-owned (government-led coalitions for operationalizing resilience at scale), 3) operational partnerships (shared principles, harmonized implementation methods and intervention areas) and 4) evidence-based (approach for demonstrating transformative impact).

In order to be successful, this portfolio relies on four drivers for change: 1) convergence (of activities in the same geographic location targeting the same people), 2) concentration (of WFP and partner activities over multiple years), 3) coverage (is sufficient to match the scale of challenge), and 4) capacities (to support communities and governments in coalition-building and sharing of knowledge).

WFP is looking for a Programme Policy Officer responsible for managing this resilience-livelihood-climate change adaptation activities portfolio (Activity 5 of WFP Jordan Country Strategic Plan). She/he will report to the Head of Programme and will oversee the operationalization of the Jordan Country Office resilience framework. Conceptualizing and designing integrated packages of activities and establishing and nurturing partnerships will be primary responsibilities, along with helping raise and secure multi-year funding.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Within delegated authority, the Programme Policy Officer will be responsible for the following duties: 1. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of on-going/recent WFP livelihood support activities/projects and lead the evidence-generation/lessons-learnt/evaluation exercise. 2. Define WFP value proposition in terms of resilience building/livelihood support/climate change adaptation around the food security-water-climate nexus and articulate it in a position paper. 3. Position WFP vis a vis the Green Climate Fund’s National Designated Authority. 4. Review current partnerships and identify opportunities of new ones. Establish and nurture partnerships with relevant institutional stakeholders (Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Water, Chamber of Commerce, Specialized research centers, Universities…), international stakeholders (World Bank, bilateral development agencies …) and civil society organizations and local private sector. 5. Strengthen the connection between WFP’s resilience building positioning/interventions and other organizations’ projects and initiatives to optimize convergence, concentration, coverage and capacities and ultimately maximize the impact of our interventions. 6. Conceptualize and design integrated packages of activities in close collaboration with relevant partners. 7. Lead on the development of project concept notes and funding proposals for livelihood activities (including preliminary assessments) in order to secure multi-year funding. 8. In order to achieve the above, act as the strategic leader and technical advisor to the team responsible for the operationalization, implementation of the livelihood projects. Involve and solicit the team members for the value proposition definition and project proposal development as per needs. Manage and mentor the team responsible for the implementation of the resilience-livelihood-CCA projects. 9. Provide technical expertise, coordinate, supervise and ultimately assure the quality of the work of Activity 5 staff and cooperating partners. 10. Lead on the evidence generation agenda, in close collaboration with the VAM-M&E unit, in order to measure the medium to long-term benefits of any future intervention, with a focus on sustainable impact, socio-economically and environmentally speaking. 11. Strengthen the connection between WFP’s resilience-livelihood-CCA interventions with other WFP activities and institutional capacity building initiatives, including emergency assistance, social protection, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and emergency preparedness and response (EPR), school feeding, innovation for food security and vulnerability assessment and mapping (VAM). 12. Actively work on integrating youth, gender and social inclusion strategies to promote gender equality and social and youth inclusion for sustainable livelihoods programming 13. Actively contribute to national inter-agency processes and working groups related to livelihoods and climate change to ensure collaboration and alignment among agencies 14. Prepare evidence-based and story-telling reports and communication materials, conduct briefings on initiatives and projects, and organize after-action reviews and document lessons learnt and best practices in resilience-livelihood-CCA programming. 15. Perform other related duties as required.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

Advanced University degree in Environmental Science, Economics, Agriculture, International Affairs, Nutrition/Health, 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. Experience:

Successful experience in fund raising from climate finance (Global Climate Fund, Adaptation Fund…) and/or peace building fund. Experience in building partnership at institutional level (Government and bilateral international development agencies) in relation to resilience building/climate change adaptation/livelihood activities. Experience in managing livelihood/climate change adaptation projects at scale, including projects in urban areas. Experience in supervising staff.

Knowledge & Skills:

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and in writing. Excellent strategic thinking, conceptualization and analytical skills. Ability to think outside the box and come up with innovative approaches. General knowledge of UN system policies, rules, regulations and procedures governing administration.

Languages:

Fluency in spoken and written English. Knowledge of Arabic is an advantage

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives : Utilizes understanding of WFP’s Strategic Objectives to communicate linkages to team objectives and work.
• Be a force for positive change : Proactively identifies and develops new methods or improvements for self and immediate team to address work challenges within own work area.
• Make the mission inspiring to our team : Identifies opportunities to further align individual contributions with WFP’s mission of making an impact on local communities.
• Make our mission visible in everyday actions : Helps colleagues to see the link between their individual tasks and the contributions of their unit’s goals to the broader context of WFP’s mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills : Is able to identify, support and encourage focused on-the-job learning opportunities to address gaps between current skillsets and needed future skillsets for WFP.
• Create an inclusive culture : Recognizes the contributions of teammates, and encourages contributions from culturally different team mates to recognise the value of diversity above and beyond just including it in programming for beneficiaries.
• Be a coach & provide constructive feedback : Provides and solicits ongoing constructive feedback on strengths and development opportunities to help develop individual skills, whilst also helping others identify areas for improvement.
• Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit : Sets clear targets for self and others to focus team efforts in ambiguous situations (e.g., unprecedented issues and/or scenarios)

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions : Thinks beyond team’s conventional approaches to formulate creative methods for delivering food aid and assistance to beneficiaries.
• Focus on getting results : Maintains focus on achieving individual results in the face of obstacles such as volatile or fragile environments and/or organizational roadblocks.
• Make commitments and make good on commitments : Takes personal accountability for upholding and delivering upon team’s commitments and provides assurance to stakeholders.
• Be Decisive : Demonstrates ability to adjust to team’s plans and priorities to optimize outcomes in light of evolving directives, while also responding quickly in high-pressure environments, such as in emergency settings.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units : Demonstrates an understanding of when and how to tactfully engage other units in conversations on impact, timing, or planning
• Build strong external partnerships : Networks regularly with key external partners using formal and informal opportunities to understand each partner’s unique value proposition, and to build and strengthen relationships
• Be politically agile & adaptable : Demonstrates ability to adapt engagement approach in the context of evolving partner circumstances and expectations
• Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships : Demonstrates ability to articulate to internal and external audiences the value that individual contributions and immediate teams bring to partnerships.

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 the ability to design, implement, monitor and provide oversight over effective and efficient programmes deploying different transfer modalities.

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..

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Applications must be submitted online through WFP E-Recruitment System

• Internal WFP staff can access the VA through the internal WFP CAREER page via the link: http://newgo.wfp.org/services/e-recruitment
• External applicants are kindly requested to follow the link: http://www1.wfp.org/careers/job-openings

Make sure that you answer all mandatory questions accurately and to attach your updated CV in English.

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Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

3 May 2021

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Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

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.