Organization: United
Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Uganda
Reports to: Head –
Global Post Harvest Knowledge & Operations Centre (KNOC)
Global Post Harvest Knowledge & Operations Centre (KNOC)
About US:
The UN World Food Programme
(WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency against world hunger. It is the
largest and longest serving humanitarian agency in Uganda. . Currently WFP
focuses on three priority areas: Saving lives in Emergencies; Building
Resilience through Predictable Safety Nets; Improving Nutrition &
Mother-and Child Health; and Supporting Small Holder Farmers to Access Markets.
WFP has operations in various parts of the Country.
(WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency against world hunger. It is the
largest and longest serving humanitarian agency in Uganda. . Currently WFP
focuses on three priority areas: Saving lives in Emergencies; Building
Resilience through Predictable Safety Nets; Improving Nutrition &
Mother-and Child Health; and Supporting Small Holder Farmers to Access Markets.
WFP has operations in various parts of the Country.
Job Summary: The Programme
Policy Officer (Zero Food Loss Training Manager) will act as Focal Point for
post-harvest smallholder farmer training / private sector supply chain to
assist countries with initial rollout of Zero Food Loss Initiative, and to
track both WFP and RBA global progress towards reduced post-harvest loss. To meet the demand from Countries around the
world for Post-Harvest loss reduction expertise, and lead the operational
coordination of post-harvest support to countries around the world, the WFP
Global Post-Harvest Knowledge Operations Centre will recruit a Programme Policy
Officer (Zero Food Loss Training Manager). Her/his role will be two-fold: to
coordinate the operational activities to support other countries, and to work
with the Global Head of the Post-Harvest Centre to ensure WFP’s training
offerings to smallholder farmers continue to evolve and improve.
Policy Officer (Zero Food Loss Training Manager) will act as Focal Point for
post-harvest smallholder farmer training / private sector supply chain to
assist countries with initial rollout of Zero Food Loss Initiative, and to
track both WFP and RBA global progress towards reduced post-harvest loss. To meet the demand from Countries around the
world for Post-Harvest loss reduction expertise, and lead the operational
coordination of post-harvest support to countries around the world, the WFP
Global Post-Harvest Knowledge Operations Centre will recruit a Programme Policy
Officer (Zero Food Loss Training Manager). Her/his role will be two-fold: to
coordinate the operational activities to support other countries, and to work
with the Global Head of the Post-Harvest Centre to ensure WFP’s training
offerings to smallholder farmers continue to evolve and improve.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coordinate,
at a global level, resources for country offices who request support for
post-harvest loss reduction activities.
These may include planning & programme design, M&E,
fundraising, staffing design, training, finance, engineering,
communication, project management & monitoring, private sector links,
IT aspects, and government relations. - At
global level, be the lead expert for post-harvest loss reduction training:
development of pedagogy, farmer manuals, train-the-trainer techniques,
facilitator guides, and assessment/evaluation forms; for all areas, strive
for quality and consistency in material and method - At
global level, be the lead expert for post-harvest loss reduction
monitoring: establish continually refine, and share best techniques for
overall project monitoring - Maintain
close collaboration with the Rome-based agencies (RBA) Food Waste and Food
Loss Project, with a specific focus on sharing knowledge with the
Community of Practice, in particular for WFP’s involvement in DRC, Burkina
Faso and Uganda - Explore/create,
develop, pilot and evaluate potential alternative methods for mass
training/awareness building in coordination with the WFP Post-harvest KNOC
Communications Officer - Explore/create,
develop, pilot & evaluate alternative methods for digital
training/awareness building - Explore
and action opportunities to leverage and integrate post-harvest training
into the myriad other training materials that WFP has and is developing
for smallholder farmers, with the objective of having a standardized set
of smallholder farmer trainings, with a specific focus on gender and
nutrition - Collaborate
with the WFP Post-Harvest KNOC M&E Officer to ensure that evaluation
of training effectiveness is incorporated into M&E frameworks for all
post-harvest implementations - Manage
the ‘sharing’ training knowledge module of the Global Post-Harvest Centre
internal website
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The
ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme (WFP) Programme
Policy Officer (Zero Food Loss Training Manager) job placement should hold
a University degree in one of the following disciplines: Agricultural
economics, Agribusiness - A
minimum of five years of experience working on smallholder farmer
livelihood improvement - Fluency
(level C) in English language and the duty station’s language.
Personal Competencies:
- Programme
Lifecycle & Food Assistance: Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual
factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the
lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design. - Transfer
Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher): Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and
qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to
inform transfer modality selection and programme development. - Broad
Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.): Demonstrates the ability to interpret
basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to
technical programme design, implementation and monitoring. - Emergency
Programming: Displays
capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and
realignment of high quality emergency programmes. - Strategic
Policy Engagement w/ Government: Develops 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.
How to Apply:
All candidates who desire to
join the United Nations World Food Programme are encouraged to submit their
applications online at the link below.
join the United Nations World Food Programme are encouraged to submit their
applications online at the link below.
Deadline: 26th April 2018
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