Overview
To provide support to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute towards the development of projects, plans and processes.
- Provide project management support to programmes and projects.
- Follow data gathering and monitoring systems.
- Research and analyse policy and operational issues.
- Contribute to the preparation of reporting on programmes and activities.
- Liaise with internal counterparts to ensure effective collaboration.
- Support the identification, development and management of potential partnerships.
- Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government.
- Provide guidance to support staff.
- Support technical overview and operationalization of WFP food and cash-based assistance.
- Support the activity manager for starting and coordinating food and cash interventions.
- Scale-up and assist in design of Resilience-building and development projects.
- Support project management and coordination of projects nation-wide.
- Use project management tools, and report progress and results.
- Coordinate with Provincial Offices and other functional units.
- Provide technical support on livelihoods-based recovery activities.
- Support resource pipeline coordination and tracking.
- Facilitate situation updates, project progress updates, tracking of distributions.
- Provide inputs for concept notes, donor proposals, reports and other technical and strategic documents.
- Coordination with Financial service providers, WFP Finance and Cooperating Partners.
- Follow up with database team for generation of beneficiary data for payments and process payments.
- Facilitate designing and populating operational plans and overview of timely resource/funding use.
- Develop and share the monthly cash forecast with finance.
- Follow up with financial service providers for reports and issues related to disbursements.
- Participate and facilitate Field Level Agreements processes, contracting of partners and similar.
Required Experience
- A minimum of one year of post-graduation professional/managerial level experience in the development sector related to Emergencies and Livelihood, specifically CBT (Cash Based Transfer).
- Experience and technical knowledge of cash-based transfers and food distributions at a manager level during national emergencies and also development context.
- Deep experience and technical knowledge of livelihoods, recovery, Food for Asset Creation, emergency response and similar activities at an officer-level.
- Excellent professional coordination, supervision, conflict resolution and liaising skills.
- Experience of working in both field and country offices in relevant capacities.
Qualifications
Advanced University degree in International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences, or other field relevant to international development assistance, or First University Degree with additional two years of related work experience at professional / managerial level and/or trainings/courses.
