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Job Title:    Senior Programme Associate (Food Systems)  

Organisation: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Programme Policy Officer (AMS)

About US:

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need. In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 80 countries each year. The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to food and contribute to lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas.

Job Summary:  The Senior Programme Associate (Food Systems) will provide effective specialized support and technical analyses to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food systems goals. The incumbent is expected to work under minimal supervision and produce organised, accurate work and analytical reports including providing guidance to partners on standard WFP delivery assistance.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in annual activity planning and review.
• Program operations: support the AMS team in Kampala to coordinate and document meetings, trainings, and events; pre-commit funds, initiate procurement requests, and monitor expenditures in Kampala and the field vis-à-vis costed annual performance plans.
• Liaise with the Finance Unit in financial reporting to the donors.
• Coordinate with the Partnership Unit and the field to select CPs.
• Contribute to programme design discussion and document writing.
• Support in the synthesis of programme results and provide input into analysis.
• Provide programme operational support e.g. procurement and partnership management
• Focal Point for operational inquiries within the Head Office vis-a-vis field offices and partners.
• Assist in the organisation of meetings and workshops.
• Organize/participate in public events for WFP programmes.
• Conduct quarterly activity monitoring field visits.
• Contribute to the documentation of programme achievements and lessons learnt
• Manage physical and electronic filing systems

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Senior Programme Associate (Food Systems) job must hold a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Sciences, Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, social sciences, development studies, or related field from a recognized institution.
• Five or more years of progressive responsible work experience of implementing livelihoods, food security, agricultural development, or market systems development.
• Experience in livelihoods programming in emergency and complex contexts e.g., refugee or disaster-prone contexts.
• Demonstrated understanding of the livelihood conceptual frameworks, market systems development or pro-poor market concepts,
• Experience in humanitarian and development project implementation
• Experience in monitoring of humanitarian and development projects.
• Computer knowledge and skills in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Power point.
• Has worked with technical teams (i.e. agricultural market development, livelihoods, market systems etc.).
• Has contributed to implementation of programmes.
• Has observed or assisted with policy discussions.
• Demonstrated basic understanding of WFP’s policies and strategies to perform monitoring and/or evaluation activities and their inter-relationship.
• Ability to collect and summarize programme data, including information on the status of personas in need, beneficiaries planned and reached for all program assistance modalities and activities.
• Ability to gather, organise, and provide data on program outputs, processes and outcomes including on technical assistance provided.
• Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in the UN language in use at the duty station and in the duty station’s language,

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, Vouchers): 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: 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: Understands and applies basic principles of engagement with government counterparts at the national or local level.

NB: Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

How to Apply:

All candidates who wish to join the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in the aforementioned capacity should apply online at the online portal link below.

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Deadline: 13^th May 2022

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