School kitchen construction monitoring assistant support to School Feeding, SSA5

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Vacancy Announcement

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WFP encourages female candidates and people with disabilities to apply.

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a committed *to promoting diversity and the principle of equal employment opportunity for all our employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of religion or belief, ethnic or social background, gender, gender identity and disability.**competitive* *basis. We are*

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

WFP offers a competitive benefits package including salary, plus a medical insurance.

Job Title: School kitchen construction monitoring assistant support to School Feeding

Grade: SSA-5

Type of contract: WFP Special Services Agreement

Duration: From January 2024 to June 2024

Duty Station: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Vacancy Number: One

Date of Publication: 5 December 2023

Deadline of Application: 7 January 2024

This vacancy announcement is for Nationals from Cambodia Only.

JOB PURPOSE

Under the School Feeding activity of the CSP, WFP is handing over the school feeding programme to the MoEYS gradually until 2028. WFP is committed to hand over schools that are fully prepared to manage the school feeding programme, which includes having adequate infrastructure (school kitchens). WFP works with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), Provincial Departments of Education, Youth and Sport (PDoEYS), local authorities and other stakeholders to construct and maintain school feeding infrastructure in schools where school meals are provided. By mid-2024, WFP plans to complete the construction of approximately 170 new school kitchens in Pursat and Oddar Meanchey Provinces, partnering with PDoEYS and local authorities. This includes construction sites in remote schools.

The position will report directly to the School Feeding Programme Policy Officer (Operations) and work closely with the MoEYS Construction Department for school feeding infrastructure, including school kitchens and/or eating halls. The main responsibility is to ensure that the infrastructure is adapted to the standard design, oversee the construction process, and ensure acceptable quality

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. In collaboration with the Construction Department at MoEYS, assist schools to implement kitchen construction in the assigned geographical areas and provide guidance to schools to ensure quality assurance of the construction work throughout the construction process in line with programme guidelines, procedures, and tools.
2. Work with relevant stakeholders at sub-national level, mainly WFP Area Offices, district and provincial Offices of Education, Youth and Sport in the planning and implementation of activities related to school kitchen infrastructure and student eating halls.
3. Facilitate the communication between schools, districts, and provnical Offices of Education, Youth, and Sport with MoEYS’s construction department on overall school kitchen and student eating hall construction processes.
4. Monitor school kitchen and/or student eating hall construction processes from planning, training, bidding, contracting, constructing, and payment until completion stages in line with WFP monitoring systems and tools to provide timely trouble shooting and advice related to monitoring findings to improve the construction process.
5. Provide weekly progress updates on the construction of school kitchens and/or eating halls, and prepare relevant reports (e.g., field trip, monthly, quarterly progress reports) and financial clearance from partners, consolidate and take further action as needed.
6. Document issues, challenges and lessons learned including best practices of the infrastructure process at school level and share with the Area/Country Office to help inform learning and WFP / national strategic direction.
7. Perform other activities as required.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area is desirable. Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Has a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Has experience with infrastructure construction project, collecting programme output and outcome data, conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, reporting, sub-national coordinating and communicating findings to relevant stakeholders for action.
• Has experience utilizing computers, including word processing, spreadsheets and other standard software packages and systems.
• Has experience utilizing monitoring and evaluation systems and standards.
• Experience working with communities, schools and commune councils on infrastructure or other community-based programmes.

KEY COMPETENCEIS

Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance: Can facilitate implementation of food assistance programmes under guidance using basic understanding of principles and good practices of programme design, implementation and monitoring.

Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher): Demonstrates ability to facilitate, under guidance, food assistance programme implementation that deploys full range of transfer modalities with an understanding of basic principles guiding modality selection and implementation.

Knowledge of Specialized Areas: Understands basic technical concepts and data andtheir relevance to food assistance programmes.

Emergency Programming: Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes.

Strategic Policy Engagement w/Government: Understands and applies basic principles of engagement with government counterparts at the national or local level.

All WFP Employees are expected to demonstrate the competencies and standards of behavior aligned with our core values and defined in the WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK, namely:

1. Leading by example with integrity,
2. Driving results and delivering on commitments,
3. Fostering inclusive and collaborative teamwork,
4. Applying strategic thinking,
5. Building and maintaining sustainable partnerships.

HOW TO APPLY

To be considered, interested candidates are invited to apply via (https://www.wfp.org/careers/job-openings). Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Request for Disability related Reasonable Accommodations:

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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

WFP’s mission is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 as per the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2. It works to ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

In the period 2019-2023, through the Country Strategic Plan (CSP), WFP Cambodia has been contributing to achieving Zero Hunger by promoting access to nutritious diets through home grown school feeding and improving climate smart food production and transformation capacities of small holder farming communities. WFP helps set standards and guidelines for food transformation to satisfy the increasing demand for nutritious foods. WFP will leverage its subnational presence and existing implementation relationships to build scalable models for replication nationally, and enable subnational counterparts’ hands-on learning in intervention planning, management, and implementation. Further, WFP will support national and subnational disaster and climate change risk management and assist national strategic direction and coordination on food security, nutrition and social protection through enhanced information systems, knowledge management, and public-private and south-south partnerships.

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WFP is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce. WFP has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, abuse of authority or discrimination. 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.

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.