Programme Policy Officer, SSA10 - Consultant National

Programme & Policy

Overview

Lead consultations for the development of WFP’s new Country Strategic Plan.

You have:

• Advanced University degree in Economic, Public Administration, Social Sciences, or related field.
• A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in political analysis, policy and planning, national and international development, peace and security, conflict prevention or human rights.
• A minimum of 5 years working with the government and NGOs, UN in Madagascar at the highest level.
• A minimum of five years of experience leading a multi-stakeholder strategic and planning exercise in international development and political affairs.
• Experience in analysis and planning for UN development and/or emergency response efforts is required.
• Experience with the preparation of political analytical reports, background papers, and organizing meetings is required.
• Fluency in French and English is required.
• Demonstrated integrity in accordance with UN standard values and ethics.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to establish and maintain effective partnerships and working relations in a multicultural, multi-ethnic environment.
• Ability to manage, organize, plan and execute tasks under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Strong skills in oral and written communication.
• Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate information from different sources.
• Ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialized fields.

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WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.

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

The current WFP Country Strategies Plan (CSP) for Madagascar (2019-2023) will finish in 2023. To facilitate the internal process, a first draft of the new WFP 2G CSP for Madagascar (2023-2029) is to be finalized in the second quart of 2023. To prepare this new CSP a series of strategic hight level of consultation will need to be conducted before the visionary workshop with government count part, UN partners, and other relevant stakeholders. Importantly, the incumbent of this position will be responsible to write up some paper, before the pre-visionary and visionary workshop. The consultant will be report directly to DCD.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Consultant with Head of Programme, Head of M&E/VAM, activities manager to identify all major government and UN partners, and other relevant stakeholders, that the WFP Madagascar Country Office should ideally consult in developing the new 2G CSP.
2. Consult with the thematic group team leader and Heads of Field Offices to develop a plan for soliciting inputs from Field office and their regional government counterparts for the new CSP.
3. Conduct an assessment on the implications of the government locally/regional during the implementation of activities early of 2022 for WFP, specially with WFP implications on the different interventions.
4. Set up a plan for Country Office management, Field office management, and relevant activity managers to meet with the different partners and stakeholders.
5. Facilitate discussion between CO and Field Office on the one hand and national partners, UN partners, and other relevant stakeholder on the other hand.
6. Facilitate the pre-visionary and visionary workshop.
7. Ensure a repository is available for management, thematic group team leaders the “CSP writer” where notes for the records are available of the different consultations that have been conducted.
8. Discuss with the ‘’CSP witter’’ how the outcomes of the different internal and external consultation can best be considerate in CSP document.
9. Performance other related duties as required.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE DUTIES

The main responsibilities are to ensure that a series of consultation with relevant partners and stakeholder are held at the right level, both in the capital and field, to wrap up concept notes from each consultation, to help inform the strategic orientation for WFP’s new CSP.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

Advanced University degree of recognized university in Economic, Public Administration, Social Sciences, or related field.

EXPERIENCES REQUIRED

• A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in political analysis, policy and planning, national and international development, peace and security, conflict prevention or human right, etc.
• A minimum of 5 years to work in working for the government and ONGs, UN in Madagascar at the highest level.
• A minimum of five years of experience leading a multi-stakeholder strategic and planning exercise in the areas of international development and political affairs like conflict prevention, gender, etc.
• Experience in priority-setting, forward planning and strategic analysis is required.
• Experience in analysis and planning for UN development and /or emergency response efforts is required.
• Experience with the preparation of political analytical reports, background papers, and organization meeting is required.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Demonstrated integrity in accordance with UN standard values and ethics, to support the vision and mission of the UN and support the achievement of WFP’s strategic objectives.
• Teamwork-strong interpersonal skills and ability to establish and maintain effective partnerships and working relations in a multicultural, multi-ethic environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity.
• Planning and organizing, ability to manage, organize, plan and execute tasks in setting priorities and work under pressure to meet frequent and tight deadlines.
• Communication-Strong skills in oral and Witten communication.
• Analysis- Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources to inform strategic planning and programme development.
• WFP programme knowledge- Ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialized fields.

Languages: Fluency in French and English.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Deadline : 21 November 2022

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Qualified female candidates are highly recommended.

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.

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