Deadline: 12 November, 2021

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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

• Source and analyse information on politics, conflict, food and nutrition security, protection, and humanitarian access, etc, to analyse federal level conflict, as well as regional and local-level conflicts
• Conduct conflict sensitivity assessments (in line with corporate guidance) to identify possible/actual conflict sensitivity risks
• Work with management/programme/operations/cooperating partners (CPs) to develop feasible mitigation measures to inform strategic planning, all aspects of the programme cycle, and supply chain operations
• Document analysis, as appropriate, and ensure relevant information reaches appropriate staff in a timely manner
• Contribute analysis to the access team and utilise access cell outputs for conflict sensitivity
• Provide integrated conflict and food security analysis
• Support and accompany the application of mitigation measures identified, ensuring relevant staff understand and buy in to the adjustments needed
• Support CPs to integrate into their operations the analysis and mitigation measures identified, including the mainstreaming of conflict sensitivity and contribution to peace into FLAs, capacity building and accompaniment of implementation
• Closely work with VAM colleagues to mainstream conflict sensitivity and contribution to peace into monitoring and evaluation tools and processes
• Closely work with the security, access and civil military colleagues to integrate conflict analysis under the same framework and create formal/informal spaces to periodically discuss evolution of the conflict dynamics
• Conduct a light review of regular planning/implementation processes and capacities/competencies for conflict sensitivity (and peace contributions, if relevant) within the CO, identifying where capacities need to be built, and where processes could be enhanced
• Identify key blockages to the mainstreaming of conflict sensitivity
• Develop a conflict sensitivity action plan and lead implementation of the plan
• Provide capacity building to ETCO and CP teams on conflict sensitivity and, if relevant, on contribution to peace, ensuring different capacities for different roles are built
• Identify and support a CO champion(s) and build their capacities to sustain progress following consultancy period
• Support the CO in the design of programming to best utilise opportunities to contribute to peace, ensuring that high quality conflict analysis underpins project design, and that clear, plausible, evidence-based theories of change are articulated, and that outcome measures capture meaningful results
• Establish and maintain formal and informal relationships with external stakeholders
• Ensure the incorporation of key research findings and recommendations
• Facilitate collaborative and/or applied research, preferably from the beginning of the research cycle, to advance contextual understanding, conflict sensitivity, and peacebuilding for WFP
• Document and disseminate good practices and lessons learnt from the CO experiences
• Be an active member of the WFP Social Cohesion Community of Practice, and ensure relevant learnings shared through the community of practice are applied to the CO’s approach

• Any other duties as required

Requirements

• Advanced academic degree in Conflict Studies or a relevant discipline
• Eight years, minimum, of professional experience providing technical support to integrate conflict sensitivity into humanitarian and development programming
• Experience in design, field research, and drafting f conflict analysis
• Strong and practical knowledge of issues relating to food security, vulnerability, violence, and the humanitarian principles
• Familiarity with WFP programming and ways of working and armed conflict and food security in Ethiopia and/or demonstrated ability and willingness to rapidly acquire such in-depth knowledge
• Knowledge of peacebuilding programme design, including the articulation of theories of change
• Fluency (level C) in English language

To apply and for more information, click here.

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