JOB PURPOSE
This person will lead the Budget & Programming team, overseeing employees and related budget and programming processes including the delivery of budget, resource analysis, and programming activities, and provide technical support in the country office, partnering with managers to apply best practice approaches that support the efficient, effective, and compliant utilization of resources.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
1. Create and review project budget plans and monitor ongoing project performance against budget, ensuring adherence to guidance and policies, and providing financial analysis and advice to optimize resources.
2. Create and review budget and project documentation and ensure relevant resource data is recorded in internal systems for reference, in line with WFP standards and procedures.
3. Monitor and provide advice on actions related to project closure and resource transfer.
4. Monitor and provide advice on fund utilization, advance financing, loan and borrowing/repayment, and refinancing arrangements; alerting Country Director to approaching deadlines for unassigned funds and potential resource shortfalls/surpluses and proposing appropriate solutions.
5. Monitor the resource pipeline to maximize operational effectiveness, follow standards and processes, and provide advice on resource allocations based on the severity of pipeline shortfalls using relevant pipeline tools.
6. Support the preparation of food-demand plans to support management and usage of the corporate Global Commodity Financial Facility and provide information to guide Regional Bureau/HQ decision-making when multiple projects compete for the same stock.
7. Collate and analyze data for the preparation of accurate and timely reports, to enable informed decision-making and consistency of information presented to senior management and external stakeholders.
8. Contribute towards the development of plans, processes, and procedures ensuring compliance with wider Budget & Programming policies and WFP standards.
9. Proactively contribute ideas to senior managers for improvements to systems, techniques, tools, processes, and procedures to better monitor and manage budgets and funds.
10. Build the capacity of staff in budgeting, fund management, and operational planning, through preparing and delivering training, coaching, guidelines, and manuals.
11. Represent the unit at internal meetings/committees/working groups as required, to contribute to the discussion of key issues from a budget and resource programming perspective.
12. Manage junior officers/staff to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance.
13. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices and contribute to technical recommendations and guidance and monitor the management of financial risks.
14. Other as required.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
Master's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or other relevant field, or First University Degree with two additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.
Experience:
Languages:
Fluency (level C) in English and Arabic languages.
LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK
The UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization working towards zero hunger by 2030, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. Powered by the passion, dedication and professionalism of our 20,000 staff worldwide, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) works in over 80 countries to bring life-saving food to people displaced by conflict and made destitute by disasters, and help individuals and communities find life-changing solutions to the multiple challenges they face in building better futures. In 2020, WFP assisted 115.5 million people – the largest number since 2012. On any given day, WFP has 5,600 trucks, 30 ships and nearly 100 planes on the move, delivering food and other assistance to those in most need. Every year, we distribute more than 15 billion rations at an estimated average cost per ration of US$ 0.61. We work to enhance nutrition in women and children, support smallholder farmers in improving productivity and reducing losses, help countries and communities prepare for and cope with climate-related shocks, and boost human capital through school feeding programmes. In conflict situations, we bring relief to exhausted populations and use food assistance to build pathways to peace and stability. For its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict, WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020.
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