Deadline: 04 February, 2021
Location: Fort Portal, Uganda
The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking to fill the role of Programme Policy Officer.
WFP works to ensure the most vulnerable populations, especially women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
Responsibilities
- Efficiently manage planning of resources including food and CBT, and programme non-food items and ensure effective utilisation in a timely manner and according to WFP procedures
- Enhance the capacity of staff and partners to strengthen skills, competencies and abilities of the team involved in general food assistance through stakeholder/community engagements
- Ensure the timely provision of emergency food assistance to refugees and other crisis-affected populations in southwestern Uganda, in collaboration with UNHCR, OPM, district local governments or other stakeholders involved in intervention
- Liaise with internal and external counterparts to ensure effective collaboration
- Monitor ongoing projects and highlight potential risks to project delivery
- Provide project management support to general food assistance programmes, ensuring compliance with WFP standards and procedures and alignment with the wider programmes of the country office
- Facilitate the establishment of programmatic partnerships with government entities, UN agencies, NGOs, and other operational partners for building of synergies, coherence and complementarity of programmes
- Ensure strong collaboration, coordination and networking in order to identify opportunities, avoid duplication of activities and create innovations to improve, complement and supplement WFP assistance programmes for the overall realisation of self-reliance and resilience
- Contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on programmes and activities that enable informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders through monthly, quarterly, annual, operational and ad-hoc reports
- Contribute to preparedness actions such as early warning, risk analysis and contingency plan and make necessary recommendations
- Prepare periodic and ad hoc reports on the progress of operational projects in the southwest and make recommendations and/or proposals for improvements in operations
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences, or a similar field; or first university degree with fours years, minimum, of related work experience and/or training/courses
- Five years, minimum, of postgraduate professional experience in a relevant field
- Demonstrated interest and experience in humanitarian and development work, and stakeholder engagement (desirable)
- Specific technical knowledge of and/or experience in the area of in-kind food, social protection, cash and voucher transfers is an asset
- Experience in implementing programmes and providing input into designing operations, policy discussions and decisions
- Effective cognitive abilities, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate effectively and build sustainable partnerships
- Excellent influencing and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Very good training skills
- Calmness, maturity, logic, and cultural sensitivity
- Fluency in both oral and written communication in English
- Understanding of a local language/dialect of the duty station is a plus
To apply and for more information, click here.
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