Deadline: 15 August, 2021
Location: Ethiopia
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Programme Assistant.
WFP works to ensure the most vulnerable populations, especially women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
Responsibilities
- Support the SO’s nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive programme including assessment analysis and reporting
- Support the strengthening of national nutrition initiatives, including implementation of action plans, protocols and guidelines in line with the SUN Movement and international guidance and current evidence
- Work with staff in procurement, logistics, finance, other programme units and other divisions to ensure effective design and delivery of WFP nutrition programming
- Provide support for operational partnerships, including interagency collaboration, to ensure a strong multi-sectorial response to nutrition in both emergency and non-emergency settings
- Support accurate and timely reporting and learning, contributing to a knowledge base that informs decision making of WFP and other stakeholders
- Design, conduct and communicate the nutrition situation clearly and effectively to nutrition stakeholders
- Under guidance of the HoSO, represent WFP at regional, national and international meetings to contribute in technical discussions, exchange experiences, advocate nutrition interventions and identify areas of potential collaboration
- Support the monitoring and evaluation of WFP activities, providing technical analysis, and interpretation
- Act in an assigned emergency response capacity, as required, to meet emergency food assistance needs
- Take the responsibility of acting as a focal point for compiling the outcome data from the monthly TSF Woredas
- Take responsibility for updating allocation data flow and subsequent food movement as well as producing a narrative analysis as per the agreed frequency
- Act as an alternate to the processing of NGO collaboration, ensuring the monitoring and supervision of NGO implementation
- Undertake and lead training and technical review meetings of the IMAM in the regions
- Ensure quality of data/monthly statistics collected from the second generation woredas in the regions (Amhara)
- Ensure professional working relationship between WFP SO, CO and DRMCs through provision of technical guidance in planning and monitoring of TSF activities
- Participate in regional coordination meeting and share minutes of meeting
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant area
- Four years, minimum, of progressively responsible work experience in a relative business stream
- Experience in nutrition, public health and a related field
- Fluency in both oral and written communication in English
- Knowledge of the local language is added advantage
- Proficiency in the use of office equipment and computer software packages, such as Microsoft Word
- Knowledge of work routines and methods in order to complete processes under minimal supervision
To apply and for more information, click here.
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