Deadline: 27 July, 2020
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Subregional Resilience Officer (Team Leader).
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership to FAO’s work on resilience and supervise FAO subregional resilience team, ensuring coordinated and effective support to resilience programming at the subregional and country levels
- Liaise with resilience and humanitarian actors at subregional level and represent FAO at interagency coordination meetings and programming exercises undertaken by the resilience humanitarian and early recovery community
- Support the FAO representations in resources mobilisation for resilience projects and programmes
- Organise/participate in regular donor meetings, as appropriate, and inform the donor community on the prevailing livelihoods, food security and nutrition situation
- Facilitate SP5 country support process and across SPs collaboration in close partnership with the regional office and SP5 management team
- Provide strategic and policy guidance as well as required training, capacity development in resilience, food security and nutrition for national governments and subregional institutions
- Support the national teams in identifying CPF priorities and implement FAO’s resilience programmes and project
- Provide programming and technical support
- Coordinate, monitor, evaluate and carry out impact assessment of resilience policies and programmes
- Facilitate efforts in early warning early action and disaster risk management
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in Political Science, Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, Rural Sociology, Food Security, Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture or a related field
- Ten years of relevant experience in public and/or private sectors related to programming, planning and technical cooperation in food and agriculture, including experience in developing countries, especially in countries that are vulnerable to disaster or other emergency risks
- Working knowledge of English and limited knowledge of another FAO official language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish)
To apply and for more information, click here.
Photo source: US Embassy South Africa
