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Title:              Programme
Policy Officer

Organization: United
Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda

Grade: P4

Reports to: Deputy
Country Director

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: 

• Lead strategic engagement with the host
  government to support the design, formulate and/or implement scalable and
  flexible social protection, safety net and AMS programmes that contribute
  to food and nutrition security;
• Conduct policy reviews to determine
  WFP’s entry point in relevant activities and policy dialogue with the host
  Government; promote appropriate practices and policy changes;
• Lead on identification and fostering
  strategic partnerships relevant to achieve the strategic shifts under the
  Country Strategic plan;
• Lead the development of effective
  partnerships at the Country level with key partners, such as the World
  Bank, ILO, UNICEF, FAO, UNICEF, USAID, ECHO, EU and IGAD, to enhance WFP’s
  ability to effectively contribute to strengthening the systems and capacities
  of the Central and sub-regional government structures;
• Manage, oversee and contribute to
  operational research and evidence building to influence policy dialogue;
  manage or oversee preparation and dissemination of timely analytical and
  critical reports, publications, and a variety of information products or
  proposals for internal or external use;
• Work in close consultation with AMEL/VAM
  and other programme teams, lead the development of a learning agenda.
• Closely coordinate with other programme
  and functional areas to ensure that resilience programmes and a system
  strengthening focus is applied in different areas of WFP’s work and that
  relevant knowledge is captured and informs WFP’s work in Uganda;
• Provide technical support to upgrade the
  quality of existing safety nets, including school feeding, asset creation,
  Agricultural market support, food systems, resilience building and other
  activities; and help refine the institutional links between safety nets
  and emergency-related mechanisms, including through risk sensitive or
  shock responsive programmes;
• Provide technical advice and/ where
  needed mobilize technical expertise to promote policy coherence and
  synergies between food and nutrition security programmes and national
  social protection/poverty reduction and agriculture frameworks;
• Provide technical support and strategic
  guidance to ensure integrated programming across the resilience
  portfolio.;
• Oversee the development of donor
  proposals and contribute to resource mobilisation efforts for resilience
  activities;
• Supervise other national and
  international programme staff; provide training and technical guidance in
  their work;
• Perform other related duties as
  required.

Key Deliverables:

• WFP in Uganda is well positioned to
  actively support the government in support of SDG2 targets, and as a
  partner of choice for hunger and nutrition sensitive policies, capacity
  building and operational support;
• Evidence, knowledge and best practice is
  shared with relevant programme officers and senior staff across the region
  to improve the quality of WFP’s direct assistance and technical support;
• The safety nets that WFP is implementing
  directly in the region are achieving enhanced outcomes for beneficiaries,
  and evidence and learning from these experiences is captured and shared
  internally and externally;
• Well prepared, analytic work;
• Well managed projects, programmes and/
  or operations.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate for the United
  Nations UN World Food Programme (WFP) Programme Policy Officer job
  placement should a University degree in International Affairs, Economics,
  Nutrition/Health, Environmental Science, Social Sciences or other field
  relevant to international development assistance.
• A minimum of eight years of postgraduate
  professional experience with increasing responsibilities in resilience,
  social protection in a bilateral, multilateral or nongovernmental
  organization.
• Very good knowledge of effective and
  sustainable practices and principles related government social protection
  systems in a variety of contexts.
• Proven capacity to conduct policy
  analysis and to successfully engage in policy dialogue.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in bringing
  global strategies into the regional/country context.
• Proven experience in building synergies
  among units, projects and regions.
• Strong communication skills and ability
  to produce written work to very high standards.
• Ability to work in a team and establish
  effective working relations with persons of different national and
  cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to deal patiently and tactfully
  with people of different national and cultural backgrounds;
• Good analytical skills, resourcefulness,
  initiative, maturity of judgement, tact, negotiating skills;
• Ability to identify the main hunger
  problem at the national or subnational level to design and implement
  context-specific programmes that strengthen government systems and
  integrate complex analysis and the full range of food assistance tools.
• Demonstrates the ability to incorporate
  technical information into policy and strategy formulation and into
  programme design and implementation, and to appropriately communicate it
  internally and externally.
• Demonstrated ability to engage key
  stakeholders in policy dialogue to strengthen national government social
  protection systems.
• Ability to translate policy and
  programme principles into relevant, effective, and context specific
  approaches, including in emergencies and protracted conflict situations.
• Experience leading teams in strategic
  discussions;
• Experience working in a multi-donor
  environment;
• Ability to work in a team and establish
  effective working relations with persons of different national and
  cultural backgrounds. Ability to deal patiently and tactfully with people
  of different national and cultural backgrounds;
• High capacity for organization and
  coordination, as well as an ability to work with a high degree of
  independence in a team environment;
• Experience in managing diverse and
  sometimes competing interests and perspectives to arrive at a durable
  consensus;
• Fluent English, written and oral;
  excellent public speaking and presentation skills;
• Excellent computer skills in MS Outlook,
  Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
• A willingness to travel frequently,
  often to remote areas; ability to cope with situations which may threaten
  health or safety; flexibility in accepting work assignments outside normal
  desk description.
• Languages: 
  Fluency (level C) in English language.

NB:
Female applicants and qualified applicants from Uganda with Ugandan Nationality
are especially encouraged to apply.

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: 8^th August 2019

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