ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Contribute to and implement WFP country plans, including administrative processes, aligned with regional and wider WFP strategies and policies to facilitate efficient and effective Management Services.
2. Develop annual plans, and contribute to longer-term strategies and improvements to policies, systems, and procedures to ensure that services provided support WFP strategic objectives and are in compliance with corporate policies, standards, regulations, and processes.
3. Carry out complex data analysis to provide management and clients with accurate information and reports for efficient planning and decision-making.
4. Manage the existing resources in the area of responsibility (e.g. WFP managed facilities, assets and travel management, etc.) and estimate new requirements aiming at efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and timeliness of operations and services.
5. Facilitate the compliance of the services provided (e.g. WFP managed facilities, assets and travel management, etc.) with the corporate Occupational Safety and Health Policy and contribute to the provision of recommendations to the management on improvements/changes.
6. Support a culture of environmental sustainability throughout WFP by role-modeling actions that drive sustainability in all Management Services activities.
7. Guide and supervise more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with more complex analyses and queries.
8. To support the CO in hiring new Management Services Officer NOA as needed.
9. Support the capacity building of WFP staff and partners through the organization or design of pieces of training, workshops, daily interaction, etc., for efficient and effective delivery of food assistance to beneficiaries.
10. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP is able to respond quickly and deploy food and needed resources to affected areas at the onset of the crisis.
Education: Advanced University degree in Business/Public Administration, Engineering, or other relevant field relating to office management and administration, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.
Experience: Minimum of 4 years of postgraduate professional experience related.
Knowledge and Skills:
• Has experience in one or more Management Services lines of business (for example management of assets, facilities, fleet, travel, or other).
• Has experience working with teams across different functional areas.
• Has experience in working with data-related concepts and tools and leveraging data-driven insights for improved decision-making and business outcomes.
• Has demonstrated the ability to provide guidance and instruction to staff within area of expertise.
Languages: Fluency (level C) in English language (read and write) and in the Arabic (duty station’s language)
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.