Deadline: 22 August, 2021
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Programme Policy Officer.
WFP works to ensure the most vulnerable populations, especially women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
Responsibilities
- Manage the development and implementation of project plans and activities, providing technical oversight and guidance to the team and colleagues, providing inputs into programmatic strategy and identifying opportunities for programme quality improvement and innovation
- Lead the development of innovative monitoring and evaluation tools and approaches for the project in close collaboration with the monitoring and evaluation unit
- Ensure quantitative and qualitative pieces of data and evidence are generated and actively utilised to inform the activities
- Ensure the analysis of qualitative information and quantitative programme data and trends and oversee consultative processes to identify lessons learnt
- Coordinate internal knowledge management, ensuring lessons are used to inform programme design
- Ensure implementation of annual surveys on data collection on agreed outcome indicators as well as effective monitoring of programme implementation and quality
- Ensure quality and timeliness of data entered in the corporate beneficiary management and monitoring systems, particularly COMET
- Plan, monitor, and prioritise resources to maximise their effectiveness in the delivery of the activities, providing reports to the donor and management in a timely manner
- Manage key activity-specific operational partnerships with government and non-government partner entities and contracts with suppliers, ensuring compliance with the project plan and corporate standards
- Develop programme reports and proposals, drawing on the latest strategy and analysis
- Manage, develop and motivate a team of supervisees, and ensure effective coordination with field offices and other country office units
- Support policy and strategic engagement with government and strategic partners and represent WFP in key forums, actively sharing project experiences with government of Rwanda, development partners and donors
- Liaise with the donor as required
- Perform other duties as required
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Development Economics, Performance Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, or a related field; or first university degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or training/courses
- Five years, minimum, of relevant professional experience in development, humanitarian project or programme management
- Strong monitoring and evaluation experience
- Developing country experience, preferably in food security or resilience projects or programmes
- Experience coordinating or leading a programme team or a component of a programme portfolio
- Experience in engaging in policy and strategy discussions and providing input
- Ability to analyse and identify opportunities for and propose solutions to programme quality improvement
- Analytical skills with ability to compile, analyse and interpret data, prepare reports and draw conclusions and recommendations
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to deal patiently and tactfully with people of different national and cultural backgrounds and to manage external partnerships
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Fluency in written and spoken Korean language will be a plus
To apply and for more information, click here.
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