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• Drafting a data
  sharing agreement between WFP and UNHCR.
• Incorporating the
  biometrics solution into the food collection procedures used by WFP 
      and partners during distributions.
• Developing a detailed
  implementation plan and budget for the project, including a procurement
  plan, staffing plan, and process monitoring plan.
• Managing and
  monitoring the implementation plan and budget, anticipating and
  pre-empting potential cost and time over-runs.
• Operating a
  Secretariat for the joint WFP-UNHCR-OPM biometrics technical working
  group, including ensuring meetings are regular, productive, and
  action/agreements are properly documented.
• Supporting the area
  and field offices to establish similar coordination mechanisms at the
  field level.
• Establishing an
  internal WFP technical working group made up of Communications, Supply
  chain, Programme, IT, Finance, Admin, HR, AME, and the area and field
  offices, and ensuring meetings are regular, productive, and
  action/agreements are properly documented and followed up.
• Coordinating the field
  roll-out, including developing and delivering training, and supporting
  Communications to ensure roll-out is preceded and supported by an
  effective communication campaign.
• Providing regular
  progress reports to the WFP-UNHCR-OPM technical working group, 
      UGCO area and field offices, and senior management,
  RBN, HQ, donors, and other partners.
• Developing automated
  daily food collection reports for managers.
• Preparing related
  funding proposals and reports.

• Implementation plan (including
  staffing and procurement plan) and budget developed and signed off for
  initial test phase.
• Data sharing agreement
  signed between WFP and UNHCR.
• Coordination
  mechanisms in place and functioning effectively.
• Communication campaign
  completed.
• Verification staff
  recruited, equipped, trained, and deployed.
• Infrastructure at FDPs
  installed and ready.
• Automated daily food
  collection reports developed and functioning.
• Evaluation of test
  phase completed, and a roll-out plan and budget for all other settlements
  developed.
• Weekly internal
  reports provided to management. Monthly external reports provided to
  donors.

• The ideal candidate
  for the United Nations UN World Food Programme (WFP) Biometrics Project
  Manager job opportunity should hold a University degree in either
  Information Technology /Computer Science, electronic engineering or other
  relevant fields
• Recent direct
  experience working with displaced populations (refugees or IDPs), using
  fingerprinting to carrying out large-scale verification exercises in high
  security phase areas is a requirement. 
• Strong project
  management experience is a must.
• Excellent people
  skills and can lead a diverse, cross-cultural, multi-organizational team
  to successfully complete a complex and sensitive task.
• Language: Fluency
  (level C) in English language.

• Programme
  Lifecycle & Food Assistance: Displays 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.
• Transfer
  Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher): Demonstrates the ability to
  design, implement, monitor and provide oversight over effective and
  efficient programmes deploying different transfer modalities.
• Broad Knowledge
  of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.): Demonstrates
  the ability to incorporate technical information into programme design and
  implementation and appropriately communicate it internally and externally.
• Emergency
  Programming: Displays ability to translate understanding of
  programme principles in emergencies and protracted conflict situations
  into relevant, effective, and context specific approaches.
• Strategic Policy
  Engagement w/ Government: Demonstrates the ability to engage key
  stakeholders (e.g., WFP units, external partners) in policy dialogue to
  strengthen national government food and nutrition security strategies and
  programmes.

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