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• Actively participate and assist in
  negotiations for contributions and partnership agreements, in line with
  internal policies and external regulations, in order to reach advantageous
  outcomes, such as more flexibility and predictability.
• Implement the work plan for assigned area
  by delivering activities that maintain and develop government partnerships
  in order to maximise resources raised for the programme.
• Maintain effective relationships with
  representatives of government donors through appropriate channels, and
  coordinate donor meetings, attending where required.
• Significantly contribute to the management
  of a portfolio of partnerships, soliciting contributions, providing donor
  stewardship, and analysing results, in order to maximise resources raised.
• Offer technical support to technical units
  in the Country Office, Regional Bureau and/or Headquarters as required, in
  order to assist them to effectively mobilise donor resources and to ensure
  the donor conditions are met and adhered to at different programming
  levels.
• Prepare briefs on resourcing outlook for:
  Country Strategic Plan (CSP) and Country Budget Portfolio (CBP) ;
  Country/Regional/Division Directors; the Strategic Programme Review
  Process (s-PRP) and the Electronic Programme Review Process (e-PRP);
  supply chain meetings; and operate as a resourcing focal point in order to
  ensure that concerns are adequately considered.
• Guide more junior staff, acting as a point
  of referral and supporting them with more complex analysis and queries.
• Collate and analyse data for the
  preparation of accurate and timely reporting on donors and programmes, to
  enable informed decision-making and action planning by senior
  stakeholders.
• Proactively contribute to ideas and
  highlight fundraising opportunities to senior managers for new strategies
  to maintain and increase funding from new and traditional donors.
• Prepare and provide regular information to
  educate new and potential donors on the strategy, design, relevance and
  impact of WFP programmes, and to advocate the work of WFP.
• Represent WFP at international meetings at
  appropriate levels, in such a way that advances the government
  partnerships strategy and objectives, and builds support for WFP
  activities.
• Prepare and provide inputs for briefing
  documents for senior level management meetings with donors.
• Coordinate work with other government
  partnership officers to ensure the flow of information and other WFP units
  to align activities and ensure donor visibility and that donor conditions
  are met.
• Follow standard emergency preparedness
  practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly respond and deploy food and
  needed resources to affected areas at the onset of a crisis.
• Other as required.

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations
  UN World Food Programme (WFP) Government Partnerships Officer job
  opportunity should hold an Advanced University degree in Economics,
  International Development, Development Economics, Marketing
  Communications, Law, Business Administration, Journalism or other relevant
  field, or First University degree with two years of related work
  experience and/or training/courses.
• At least three years of exposure and
  experience in business development (private sector), development and/or
  humanitarian affairs or related fields.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a
  multi-cultural environment.
• Ability to work under pressure and
  multiple/tight deadlines.
• Ability to communicate clearly both orally
  and in writing.
• Previous experience in implementing the
  resource mobilisation work plan by delivering specific activities as
  defined
• Experience in providing direction to one
  or more junior staff members within area of expertise
• Experience in participating and assisting
  in negotiations for contributions and partnership agreements with donors
  and host governments, in line with internal policies and external
  regulations
• Prior experience in drafting resourcing
  analysis and collaborated with accurate and timely briefs as well as
  reporting to donors

• Relationship Management:
  Demonstrates ability to build and sustain effective collaborative
  relationships with appropriate stakeholders and contacts in area of
  expertise to raise the profile of WFP, build relationships and further
  organisational aims.
• Communication Expertise:
  Facilitates and contributes to open verbal or written communication with
  stakeholders as required (i.e. through preparation of targeted written or
  visual communications materials, presentations, and official
  documentation) to convey tailored messages. Engages in mutually
  informative discussion with partners and influencers.
• Information Analytics, Reporting &
  Management: Gathers, analyses and reports information in a manner
  that draws out fact-based insights to inform approach to partner relationships
  and support substantive discussion with partners. Captures relevant
  information and progress, and ensures internal information sharing.
• Resource Mobilisation: Demonstrates
  the ability to design and manage the full resource mobilisation lifecycle,
  including negotiating with partners and key stakeholders, providing
  resourcing advice and briefs to senior managers, leading medium/large
  teams and strategically allocating material and other appropriate
  resources.
• Business Process Support &
  Technical Guidance: Provides technical support to other business
  areas, identifying procedural issues and solutions. Applies understanding
  to ensure system maintenance and to support the design and implementation
  of system changes, supporting users and ensuring relevant training and
  materials are provided as necessary.

• Understand and communicate the
  Strategic Objectives: Helps teammates articulate WFP’s
  Strategic Objectives.
• Be a force for positive change:
  Suggests potential improvements to team’s work processes to supervisor.
• Make the mission inspiring to our
  team: Explains the impact of WFP activities in beneficiary
  communities to teammates.
• Make our mission visible in everyday
  actions: Articulates how own unit’s responsibilities will
  serve WFP’s mission.

• Look for ways to strengthen people’s
  skills: Trains junior teammates on new skills and
  capabilities.
• Create an inclusive culture:
  Seeks opportunities to work with people from different backgrounds.
• Be a coach & provide
  constructive feedback: Serves as a peer coach for colleagues
  in same area of work.
• Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit:
  Tracks progress toward goals and shares this information on a regular
  basis with supervisor.

• Encourage innovation & creative
  solutions: Explores ways to consistently be more efficient and
  accurate in own areas of work and shares new methods of work with
  colleagues.
• Focus on getting results:
  Focuses on getting results and tracks trends in completion rates for own tasks
  to identify opportunities for efficiency.
• Make commitments and make good on
  commitments: Takes responsibility for own tasks and notifies
  supervisor as soon as possible of potential delays in meeting deadlines or
  commitments.
• Be Decisive:
  Independently decides what action to take when faced with critical choices
  in the workplace or in dangerous situations in the field.

• Connect and share across WFP units: Suggests
  opportunities for partnering with other units to supervisor.
• Build strong external partnerships:
  Identifies opportunities to work with colleagues and partners in the field
  towards common goals.
• Be politically agile &
  adaptable: Develops an understanding of the value of WFP’s
  teams and external partners in fulfilling team’s goals and objectives.
• Be clear about the value WFP brings
  to partnerships: Aligns own activities with supervisor’s
  priorities to fulfill internal and external partner needs.

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