Job
Title: Programme
Policy Officer (EDP Team Leader)
Title: Programme
Policy Officer (EDP Team Leader)
Organization: United
Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Duty Station:
Mbarara, Uganda
Mbarara, Uganda
Reports to:
Senior Programme Policy Officer
Senior Programme Policy Officer
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.
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.
Job Summary: The
Programme Policy Officer (EDP Team Leader) will provide support to policy and
programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.
Programme Policy Officer (EDP Team Leader) will provide support to policy and
programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Actively contribute towards the development of a limited number of
projects, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider programme
policies and guidance. - Provide project management support to specific and defined
programmes and projects of small to moderate size that are relatively
straight forward in nature, ensuring a coordinated approach with wider
programmes that complies with WFP standards and procedures. - Follow data gathering and monitoring systems ensuring that rigorous
quality standards are maintained. - Research and analyse policy and operational issues to support senior
colleagues in the development of policies, programmes and activities. - Contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on
programmes and activities that enable informed decision making and
consistency of information presented to stakeholders. - Liaise with internal counterparts to ensure effective collaboration,
monitor ongoing projects. - Support the identification, development and management of potential
partnerships to collaborative working leading to improved food assistance
packages. - Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national
government to prepare for and respond to food assistance needs, e.g.
through project management support of learning initiatives. - Provide guidance to support staff, acting as a point of referral and
assisting them with analysis and queries. - Other as required.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme
(WFP) Programme Policy Officer (EDP Team Leader) job placement should hold
an advanced University degree in International Affairs, Economics,
Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences or
other field relevant to international development assistance, or First
University Degree with additional years of related work experience and/or
trainings/courses. - Previous experience in implementing technical programs (i.e.
nutrition, etc.). - Experience in implementing programmes and provide input into designing
operations. - Experience in providing input into policy discussions and decisions.
- Language:
International Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language.
Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language: Arabic,
Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or WFP’s working language,
Portuguese.
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 sub-national 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.
desire to join the United Nations World Food Programme are encouraged to submit
their applications online at the link below.
Deadline: 20th May 2018
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