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• Provide technical advice to Field Offices on Community Asset
  Creation, WFP Livelihood programming and Agriculture Market Support
  Programme including design, budgeting, planning, monitoring, and
  evaluation
• Strengthen programme integration and synergies especially linkages
  between Assets Creation, Agriculture Market Support, School Feeding,
  Nutrition, etc
• Provide technical guidance to the field offices on the AMS, Asset
  Creation and livelihood activities implementation 
• Support the engagements with other agencies/stakeholder including
  Makerere University to roll out the Three-Pronged Approach (3PA) as part
  of the NEPAD ARCH.
• Coordinate the 3PA region wide rollout plan in consultation with CO
  Livelihood and relevant ministries, including MGLSD, OPM, etc.
• Support Area Office in capacity Strengthening of National Social
  Protection programmes such as Northern Uganda Social Fund
  (NUSAF)/Development Response to Displacement Impact Project (DRDIP)
  towards community lead and nutrition sensitive focus public works.
• In collaboration with Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation (AME)
  Unit, ensure that the required monitoring, studies, baselines, and
  evaluations are conducted for the asset creation and livelihood as well as
  Agriculture and Market Support Programme (AMS).
• Conduct periodic field visits to the targeted districts to support
  Field Offices on programmatic and operational issues in the implementation
  of AMS, Asset Creation/livelihood programme
• Actively search opportunity for strategic partnership including
  market linkages across the Karamoja sub-region.  
• Participate in monitoring and evaluation activities including
  qualitative and quantitative surveys to ensure that WFP generates evidence
  and lessons on Asset Creation, livelihood and smallholder ag production
  and marketing practices, and gender relations via the Asset Creation and
  AMS Programmes Implentation
• Assist the Head of Programme in organizing regional coordination
  meetings on WFP’s ag development interventions and other related
  resilience programme with government counterparts, NGO partners,
  beneficiary representatives and other stakeholders
• On behalf of AO conduct second-level review of AMS and Asset
  Creation partnership reports and ensure coherence between narrative
  reports and output data submitted in corporate monitoring systems
• Support and establish linkages between the BIAM/SCOPE, CBT and other
  programmatic interventions like HISP for a holistic livelihood improvement
  in Karamoja;
• Identify technical knowledge gaps in Livelihood/FFA/ AMS among the
  WFP staffs and CPs staff  and provide
  tailored trainings, coaching and mentorship to enhance effective
  implementation and monitoring of the said programmes;
• In collaboration with the respective Field Offices and CPs, develop
  a database for all resilience sub-projects, understand their status and
  conduct a SWOT analysis for informed decision making;
• Develop appropriate agricultural livelihood options and
  methodologies that can be used to inform sustainable HISP agro based
  projects and scalability;

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme
  (WFP) Programme Policy Officer (Livelihood & Agriculture Market
  Support) 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.
• Ability to speak at least one of the Karamojong  languages is desirable: 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.
• Previous experience in implementing technical programs (i.e.
  nutrition, etc.).
• Prior experience in implementing programmes and provide input into
  designing operations.
• Experience in providing input into policy discussions and decisions.
• Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s
  language, if different.

• 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.

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