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• Provide technical input into national policy and strategy
  development and revive to ensure that improved post-harvest management is
  an integral part of food security and agricultural development in Uganda;
• Support line ministries in the design, operationalisation and
  monitoring of national projects and activities in post-harvest management;
• Develop and roll out an effective mechanism for capacity transfers
  of WFP’s post-harvest management work to central and local government
  institutions;
• Facilitate and catalyse South-to-South cooperation between Uganda
  and other governments in good post-harvest management practices;
• Strengthen internal programme linkage by integrating post-harvest
  management activity into other WFP programmes: i.e social protection,
  refugee assistance and education;
• Develop strategic partnership with development partners and private
  sector actors to improve smallholder access to affordable and practical
  post-harvest management technology;
• document good practices and lessons-learnt and feed into WFP’s
  global work in post-harvest management
• Other related duties.

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme
  (WFP) Programme Policy Officer (Post Harvest Management) job placement
  should hold an advanced University degree in Agriculture and/or Food
  Science OR a first University degree with more than ten (10) years of
  related work experience;
• Knowledge of the Grain Sector/Agriculture project management;
• Research and practical experience in post-harvest engineering and
  food technology and grain handling, processing and purchasing;
• Proficiency in both oral and written English.
• Extensive technical knowledge through exposure to technical teams.
• Has taken leadership of implementing programmes.
• Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions.

• 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 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 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: 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.

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