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Title:              Programme
Associate (Livelihoods/Asset Creation)

Organization: United
Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Duty Station: 
Kampala, Uganda

Grade: G6

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.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to the project’s technical and financial proposals and
  corporate reporting obligations.
• Liaise with Area Offices (AO) and Field Offices (FO) in relation to
  grant and cash pipeline management of the activity ensuring timely creation
  of Purchase Orders (PO), fund utilization before TOD/TDD and IPSAS
  compliance
• Ensure timely processing of Cooperating Partners (CP) invoices and
  advance payment requests in adherence to Field Level Agreements (FLA) and
  financial guidelines/policies
• Manage PO for cash-based transfers (CBT) cash to beneficiaries,
  services for financial service provider(s) and CP.
• Support development of transfer (CBT and capacity strengthening) and
  implementation budgets during project development, periodic follow ups and
  budget revisions.
• Participate in pipeline meetings, follow-up action points related to
  funds management and pipeline for the unit, as well as support head of the
  unit on preparation for the Resource Management Committee (RMC)
• Ensure livelihood outputs are included in pipeline monthly report,
  monthly briefs, Annual Country Report, COMET, etc.
• Provide support to AO and FO on the WFP Livelihood and Asset
  Creation programming, including missions to activity sites, if required.
• Contribute to integrating programming including promotion of
  linkages between Assets Creation, Agriculture Market Support, School
  Feeding, Nutrition, etc as required.
• Support the unit to liaise with government and Makerere University
  ensuring backstopping on the national planning tolls for resilience
  building through the Three-Pronged Approach (3PA)
• Support the unit with capacity strengthening elements to National
  Social Protection programmes such as Northern Uganda Social Fund (NUSAF)
  and Development Response to Displacement Impact Project (DRDIP) towards
  community lead and nutrition sensitive focus public works.
• Participate in coordination fora and technical collaborations around
  livelihoods and resilience programming (both for Karamoja and refugee
  hosting districts)
• Develop and maintain a good working relation with the relevant
  agencies (Ministries, NGOs, UN agencies)

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme
  (WFP) Programme Associate (Livelihoods/Asset Creation) job placement
  should a University degree in the fields of: Social Sciences, Development
  Studies, Economics, Agri-Business, or any other related field;
• A minimum of five (5) years’ experience in the field of
  Development/Livelihoods work or related field;
• Good understanding of the Resilience and Livelihood concept and
  issues;
• Practical experience with livelihood and agriculture development
  programmes;
• Excellent organisational, Communication and Planning skills
• Strong analytical and writing skills;
• Experience with funds management, drafting progress reports and
  utilising spreadsheets.

Desirable:

• Has gained experience in implementing technical programs (i.e.
  nutrition, etc.).
• Has implemented programmes and provided input into designing
  operations.
• Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions.

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.

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Deadline: 1^st August 2019

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