Overview
Facilitate WFP's positioning with public, private, and external partners to attract policy support, resources, technical assistance, and innovative solutions. Support member states in achieving SDGs and Zero Hunger.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement work plans for assigned areas to identify, develop, and strengthen partnerships.
- Contribute to a partnerships portfolio, including partner profiling and outreach.
- Support partner visibility and ensure partner conditions are met.
- Use data to present managers with well-researched ideas to expand support from existing partners and scope new partners.
- Solicit inputs from other WFP entities to inform partner audiences on WFP’s programmatic offering.
- Draft quality briefs and highlight strategic issues to senior staff.
- Gather and present internal and external data/information to support WFP’s positioning vis-à-vis national governments, regional and international institutions.
- Support the development of partnerships and joint events with member states, civil society, and intergovernmental organizations.
- Contribute to partnerships strategies and develop Partnership Action Plans.
- Draw up quality partner proposals and reports.
- Support senior managers in the preparation of strategic agreements, joint strategies, and MOUs.
- Contribute to preparedness actions, providing technical recommendations and guidance, and monitor defined risks.
- Supervise other functional areas, including reporting, communications, and monitoring and evaluation.
Required Experience
- Minimum one or more years of relevant professional work experience in partnership roles.
- Has a basic understanding of government strategies.
- Has developed effective relationships with partners and explored new areas to scale up existing activities and researched new opportunities.
- Has developed powerful narratives by using data analysis visualization to enable action-oriented discussions with partners.
- Has prepared briefs to raise resources for operations and collaborated for timely registration, maintenance, and update of contributions and forecasts.
- Has provided advanced technical support and identified opportunities for service delivery excellence to strengthen partnerships.
- Has motivated team spirit and contributed to a gender-balanced, inclusive, and sound working environment.
Qualifications
• Advanced University degree in Political Science, International Development, Development Economics, International Relations, Law, Marketing, Communications or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.
