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• Coordinate,
  at a global level, resources for country offices who request support for
  post-harvest loss reduction activities. 
  These may include planning & programme design, M&E,
  fundraising, staffing design, training, finance, engineering,
  communication, project management & monitoring, private sector links,
  IT aspects, and government relations.
• At
  global level, be the lead expert for post-harvest loss reduction training:
  development of pedagogy, farmer manuals, train-the-trainer techniques,
  facilitator guides, and assessment/evaluation forms; for all areas, strive
  for quality and consistency in material and method
• At
  global level, be the lead expert for post-harvest loss reduction
  monitoring: establish continually refine, and share best techniques for
  overall project monitoring
• Maintain
  close collaboration with the Rome-based agencies (RBA) Food Waste and Food
  Loss Project, with a specific focus on sharing knowledge with the
  Community of Practice, in particular for WFP’s involvement in DRC, Burkina
  Faso and Uganda
• Explore/create,
  develop, pilot and evaluate potential alternative methods for mass
  training/awareness building in coordination with the WFP Post-harvest KNOC
  Communications Officer
• Explore/create,
  develop, pilot & evaluate alternative methods for digital
  training/awareness building
• Explore
  and action opportunities to leverage and integrate post-harvest training
  into the myriad other training materials that WFP has and is developing
  for smallholder farmers, with the objective of having a standardized set
  of smallholder farmer trainings, with a specific focus on gender and
  nutrition
• Collaborate
  with the WFP Post-Harvest KNOC M&E Officer to ensure that evaluation
  of training effectiveness is incorporated into M&E frameworks for all
  post-harvest implementations
• Manage
  the ‘sharing’ training knowledge module of the Global Post-Harvest Centre
  internal website

• The
  ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme (WFP) Programme
  Policy Officer (Zero Food Loss Training Manager) job placement should hold
  a University degree in one of the following disciplines: Agricultural
  economics, Agribusiness
• A
  minimum of five years of experience working on smallholder farmer
  livelihood improvement
• Fluency
  (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language.

• 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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