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WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the
Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).
Contribute towards the development of a wide variety of projects, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider programme policies and guidance. Provide project management support to specific and defined programmes and projects of considerable size/complexity, ensuring a coordinated approach with wider programmes that complies with WFP standards and procedures. Develop and coordinate data gathering and monitoring systems ensuring that rigorous quality standards are maintained. Research and analyse a range of policy and operational issues to inform the development of policies, programmes and activities. 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. Liaise with internal and external counterparts to ensure effective collaboration, monitor ongoing projects and highlight potential risks to project delivery. Support the identification, development and management of potential partnerships to collaborative working leading to improved food assistance packages. Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government to prepare for and respond to food assistance needs, e.g. through providing inputs into training materials. Guide and supervise more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries. Other as required. Proven experience in emergency preparedness and response programme management, including in-kind food and cash programming. Proven experience in implementing projects addressing food security of vulnerable populations; with experience in implementing technical programmes, including in-kind food and cash-based transfers. Proven ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development. Proven experience leading small to medium sized teams. Has prepared briefs to raise resources for operations and collaborated for timely registration, maintenance and update of contributions and forecasts. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Proficient computer skills. Deepened technical knowledge through exposure to technical teams in the area of humanitarian needs assessments and adoption of different targeting approaches for prioritization of food or cash assistance to vulnerable populations. Has developed effective relationships with partners and explored new areas to scale-up existing activities and researched new opportunities. Able to formulate thorough recommendations using multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition security programmes. Proven ability to identify the main hunger problem at the national or subnational level to design and implement context-specific programmes that integrate complex analysis and the full range of food assistance tools. Proven ability to translate understanding of programme principles in emergencies and protracted conflict situations into relevant, effective, and context specific approaches. Proven ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring. Proven ability to translate understanding of programme principles in emergencies and protracted conflict situations into relevant, effective, and context specific approaches. Proven capacity to manage sensitive strategic partnerships for the design and set- up of a joint project. We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete, and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter
Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
Please contact us at global.hrerecruitment@wfp.org in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
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