Apply: WFP Partnership Officer

Deadline: 19 July, 2020

Location: Yaounde, Cameroon

The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Partnership Officer.

The WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The organisation’s mission is to ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable populations, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Responsibilities

  • Provide inputs to partnership strategies including the development of partnership action plans
  • Implement the country office’s partnership work plan to identify, develop and strengthen quality partnerships with public, private and external partners in support of WFP strategic objectives
  • Proactively contribute to a partnership portfolio, including partner profiling, data/trends analysis and outreach activities, with the aim of maximising resources and leveraging policy and technical support for WFP’s work
  • Assist with the preparation of proposals and donor presentations in order to effectively ‘sell and market’ WFP Cameroon to potential partners and provide consistent information to donors on use of funds
  • Use data to propose options to managers to expand support from existing partners and to scope new partners, guided by programmatic assessment and context-specific analysis, with the aim to enhance the impact of WFP’s work and diversify the resource base
  • Gather and share partner intelligence, iincluding forecasting, using key information systems (e.g. Salesforce, WINGS, WFP Go)
  • Gather socio-political insights to support WFP’s effective positioning

Requirements

  • Advanced university degree in Political Science, International Development, Development Economics, International Relations, Law, Marketing, Communications or a related field
  • First university degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree
  • Three years, minimum, of professional experience in building partnerships, resource mobilisation or marketing
  • Basic understanding of government and corporate strategies, priorities and experience in developing multi-stakeholder partnerships
  • Strong writing skills
  • Nationality of Cameroon
  • Previous experience working with bilateral or multilateral donors
  • Fluency (level C) in both spoken and written English

To apply and for more information, click here.

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