Deadline: 04 February, 2021
Location: Kampala, Uganda
The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking to fill the role of Programme Policy Officer, Corporate Improvement and Editorial.
WFP works to ensure the most vulnerable populations, especially women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
Responsibilities
- Contribute towards the development of projects, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider programme policies and guidance and consistent internal and external presentation
- Provide editorial support to specific and defined business-improvement projects, ensuring a coordinated approach and consistent style/tone throughout
- Support senior colleagues in the internal and external promotion of the country office’s learning agenda, with particular editorial responsibilities to assess the merits of draft reports and advise on how their structure and focus can be strengthened for maximum advocacy
- Improve and edit the content provided by communication for development (C4D) officers based at area offices into high quality products for internal and external purposes
- Liaise with internal counterparts to ensure effective collaboration and internal communication
- Contribute to communications through good research, analysis of assigned areas of work and timely preparation and distribution of high-quality information products to target audience (media, donors, government)
- Review the quality and accuracy of reporting to ensure consistency of information presented to stakeholders
- Generate donor specific visibility content including text, photos, videos and audio for use across a range of integrated online platforms in order to support stewardship of priority donor relationships, ensuring consistency with corporate messages
- Support the coordination and drafting of funding proposals
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences, or a related field; or first university degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses
- Six years, minimum, of relevant professional work experience in relevant roles
- Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different
- Experience (involvement) in policy discussions and decisions
- Basic understanding of government and development partner strategies
- Strong analytical skills, with experience of developing powerful narratives to enable action-oriented discussions with senior managers
- Advanced technical support and identified opportunities for service delivery excellence, including drafting of internal and external communications and briefing material to an exceptionally high standard
- Good editorial judgment and the knowledge and capacity to provide high quality reports, with experience in branding and layout a plus
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