Deadline: 04 October, 2021
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking to fill the role of Programme Associate.
WFP works to ensure the most vulnerable populations, especially women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
Responsibilities
- Design, plan and implement the rollout of the HydroApp in Kenya, targeting hydroponics farmers, trainers, and extension workers
- Collaborate with other business units in Kenya country office to identify potential cross-cutting training content
- Support hydroponics operations in Kenya through creating training content to enable beneficiaries to replicate their own hydroponics systems using upcycled materials
- Provide support in the areas of user-testing in Kenya and beneficiary selection and follow up with implementing partners to ensure strong delivery of the project
- Create and design new visual training content for each context and adapt existing content including field testing and iterative design approaches to effectively build capacity and skills of beneficiaries
- Roll out HydroApp in other WFP country offices leveraging learning from Kenya
- Ensure that all aspects of the HydroApp as well as the H2Grow platform are in alignment with key stakeholders within the organisations as well as WFP guidelines and internal processes
- Identify and onboard key hydroponics private sector and non-profit partners in Kenya and East Africa and support consultations to better understand their challenges, needs and recommend potential solutions
- Ensure visual design, adaptations, overall management, and administration of the H2Grow platform
- Drive strong and impactful community that currently includes representatives from more than 45 organisations
- Finalise content packages and collect case studies from the field that make H2Grow’s approach easily replicable, allowing external entities successfully start hydroponics projects
- Develop recommendations and strategy for long-term vision and long-term ownership of the H2Grow platform
- Build strong partnerships and create organisational alignment by ensuring linkages between country office and the central innovation and knowledge management function at WFP, INKA
- Support analysis and content preparation on H2Grow (data on projects, PowerPoint presentations, briefs, etc.) for corporate priority topics and management meetings
- Support visibility of the project through coordinating with relevant communications teams to produce blogs, media outputs or other events
- Support project advocacy efforts with key donors, private partners and interested investors and identify opportunities for future collaboration
- Support hydroponics operations in Kenya and execute any other task as required
Requirements
- Secondary school education
- Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication, Graphic Design, or a relevant field
- Master’s degree will be a plus
- Five years, minimum, of progressively responsible experience in the humanitarian or international development sector
- Fluency in both oral and written communication in the UN language in use at the duty station
To apply and for more information, click here.
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