Deadline: 25 November, 2021
Location: Conakry, Guinea
The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Partnerships & Reporting Associate.
WFP works to ensure the most vulnerable populations, especially women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
Responsibilities
- Implement the work plan for an assigned area to enable WFP to identify, develop and strengthen quality partnerships in support of WFP strategic objectives
- Proactively contribute to a partnerships portfolio, including donor knowledge management and outreach activities, with the aim to maximise resources and leverage policy and technical support for WFP’s work
- Contribute to partnership strategies, including the development of partnership action plans
- Draw up quality partner proposals and reports by engaging with other WFP entities and external stakeholders
- Support the partnerships officer by undertaking the private sector mapping exercise
- Conduct a due diligence on specific private sectors if necessary
- Support senior managers in the preparation of strategic agreements, joint strategies and MoUs in order to promote the SDGs and Zero Hunger on the national, regional and global agendas and to reach advantageous outcomes for WFP
- Support in drafting a well-researched concept note and project proposal
- Support the revision of reporting templates and prepare the country office reports, leaflet of each programme activity, donor reports, etc
- Support the partnership team to prepare talking points for events, briefing kits, funding proposals in close coordination with relevant units
- Participate in protection and gender working group meetings to identify issues that require WFP’s attention to inform programming
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in Political Science, International Development, Development Economics, International Relations, Law, Marketing, Communications or a related field; or first degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses
- Six years, minimum, of experience, including two years, minimum, in the field of partnership
- Experience working in the area of partnership development with national government, bilateral donors and private sectors
- Strong conceptual thinking
- Ability to produce high-quality written materials, including graphically-based PowerPoint presentations as well as text documents for diverse audiences
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Fluency in French and English (both oral and written)
- Knowledge of another UN language will be an asset
To apply and for more information, click here.
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