Deadline: 02 August, 2020
Location: Juba, South Sudan
The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Senior Programme Policy Officer.
WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Develop effective country and regional programmes, bringing policies and strategies into the South Sudan country context
- Coordinate and provide technical leadership for assessments, analysis and to design, formulate, implement and monitor WFP’s food assistance programmes under country strategic plans
- Provide solid technical and managerial leadership on a broad range of strategically important and complex programme and policy issues including on the choice of objectives, activities, transfer modalities and appropriate food products, the deployment and testing of innovative approaches and the development of strategies to support government efforts to reduce hunger and malnutrition
- Ensure that programmes are consistent with WFP policies, executive board decisions and other operational guidance
- Assist senior stakeholders of governments and other partners in identifying where food assistance can be usefully employed and provide support and technical expertise for the planning, formulation and implementation of food assistance programmes
- Guide and support a strengthened government and community ownership and effectiveness of food security and nutrition programmes at global, national and sub-national levels
Requirements
- University degree, preferably at the advanced level, in Economics, International Affairs, Nutrition/Heath, Agriculture, Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences or a field relevant to International Development Assistance
- Eleven years, minimum, of postgraduate progressively responsible professional experience, both in the field and headquarters, in public sector management, development projects, emergency assistance, and/or operational aspects of national, bilateral or multilateral food aid or commercial transactions
- Strong experience formulating, designing and developing country strategic plans and programme strategies and activities in a humanitarian and transition contexts, drawing upon a full range of food assistance tools and translating them into implementation modalities and operations
- Leadership experience in building and managing teams and projects
- Fluency (level C) in English language
- Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language
To apply and for more information, click here.
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