Overview
The Programme Policy Officer (Emergency Unit) will support the design and delivery of crisis response activities under the WFP South Sudan Country Strategic Plan, focusing on the highest impact interventions for those most affected by hunger, conflict, climate shocks, and marginalization.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and coordinate data gathering and monitoring systems and processes.
- Draft accurate and timely reports and prepare documents that interpret data.
- Contribute towards the development of emergency programming.
- Provide project management support to established emergency programmes and projects.
- Analyse policy and operational issues.
- Coordinate internal and external counterparts.
- Support the identification, development and management of potential partnerships.
- Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government.
- Guide and supervise more junior staff.
- Produce other deliverables and support other tasks, initiatives, or processes, as assigned.
Required Experience
- For master's degree holder or higher: Four years of progressively professional work experience in designing, coordinating, and/or managing the implementation of emergency assistance at country- or field-level, at or alongside a UN organization, a cooperating partner, or another NGO.
- For a candidate with a bachelor’s degree, at least six years of the above experience is required.
- Specific knowledge and work experience in at least three of the following areas (required): Grants management and donor reporting. Relief to resilience programming. Food insecurity and vulnerability analyses. Refugee and IDP programming. Cash-based modalities. Early recovery and livelihoods programming. Monitoring & evaluation.
- General knowledge of the UN system (preferred).
Qualifications
University degree (required) in one or more of the following disciplines (preferred): agriculture, land / water resource management, economics, development, environment, public administration, public health, social sciences, disaster risk management, international affairs, law, or business management.
