Deadline: 13 January, 2021

Location: Malakal, South Sudan

World Vision International (WVI) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Project Manager Food Assistant.

The mission of the organisation includes working with people who are oppressed as it promotes human transformation.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervision and technical support to staff in management of all food resources, ensuring the reception, handling, storage and documentation of food commodity movements are aligned with WFP and WVI DMT standards and guidelines
• Ensure an effective reporting system to produce timely and accurate commodity reports to WFP, WVSS office, DMT and other key stakeholders like the United Nations and governments
• Manage all food resources and commodities budgets in conjunction with the food assistance technical lead, zonal programme manager and finance manager, and ensure spending and expenditures are within budget and adhere to donor requirements
• Actively combat fraud and corruption within the wider programme, ensuring projects are ready for risk-based audits
• Develop and maintain an adequate human resource plan consistent with WV policies, donor requirements and local laws, and ensure proper technical and operational capacity of staff to manage and implement project initiatives
• Conduct quarterly reviews of staff performance in line with WVs performance management system, ensuring opportunities for staff feedback

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Management, Business Administration, International Development, or a related field
• Familiarity with MS Word, Lotus Notes, MS Excel and Power Point is a plus
• Five years, minimum, of field-based international NGO work experience in food assistance programme leadership
• Sound knowledge of humanitarian international standards, policies and procedures
• Relevant professional experience managing and implementing large emergency response projects in Africa (assessment, proposal development, report writing and evaluation, etc.)
• Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments, and physical hardship conditions with limited resources
• Ability to work in high tension and high security risk situations and be able to adapt to rapidly changing contexts
• Strong English communication skills (both oral and written)
• Positive collaboration and facilitation skills including ability to train and supervise a multi-cultural team
• Proven ability to manage complex partnership relationships including effective coordination with host country government
• Good cross-cultural communication skills
• Willingness to spend at least 30 percent of time in the field visiting projects sometimes under difficult living conditions

To apply and for more information, click here.

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