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Job Title:  Programme
Officer (Safety Nets and Resilience)
Organisation: World
Food Programme (WFP)
Position Grade: P3
Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

The United Nations World Food
Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger
worldwide.  The UN World Food Programme
(WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency against world hunger. It is the
largest and longest serving humanitarian agency in Uganda. Currently WFP
focuses on three priority areas namely: Emergency Humanitarian Action (EHA); Food
& Nutrition Security (FNS); and Agriculture & Market Support (AMS). WFP
has operations in various parts of the Country.

• Plan
  and manage WFP’s livelihoods/resilience activities in the Karamoja region,
  implemented primarily through WFP’s Food For Asset (FFA) programming
  approach;
• Develop
  and maintain key partnerships with local and national government
  counterparts, cooperating partners, and technical agencies for delivery of
  the livelihoods/resilience activities;
• Maintain
  regular and systematic liaison between the Country Office and Sub-Offices
  to ensure delivery, monitoring and oversight of SNR activities in the
  Karamoja region;
• Represent
  WFP in inter-agency, government, and donor policy and budget forums to
  advocate for inclusive social protection systems in Uganda and a national
  school meals programme;
• Actively
  collaborate with WFP’s Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation (AME) Unit to
  ensure monitoring and oversight for SNR outputs and outcomes is useful and
  accurate for accountability and management purposes;
• Oversee
  contractual agreements with cooperating NGOs and partnerships with
  Government and research institutions;
• Offer
  leadership and direction in proposal development and donor reporting for
  SNR activities;
• Provide
  substantive inputs to national policy dialogue on social protection for
  vulnerable households, resilience strategies, and for the transition to a
  government led school feeding programme;
• Provide
  technical input to WFP’s monitoring tools and ensure relevant assessments,
  reviews, and evaluations of WFP’s livelihoods/resilience work are planned
  and implemented;
• Manage
  SNR’s annual plan of work within the Programme Unit (planning, budgeting,
  forecasting, pipeline);
• Provide
  supervision and guidance to programme staff within the SNR Unit;
• Work
  closely with WFP senior management, logistics, communication and
  administrative units in order to implement the SNR programme of work;
• Perform
  other related duties as required.

• The
  ideal candidate for the United Nations WFP job should hold a University
  degree, preferably at an advanced level in Social Sciences, Agricultural
  Engineering, Rural Development or other related fields.
• A
  minimum of  five years (of which 3
  international) of progressively responsible professional experience with
  development projects in the areas of food assistance programming, local
  level planning and community development;
• Hands-on
  experience with government/donor liaison, project fund and NGO partnership
  management;
• Prior
  experience in managing teams in a cross-cultural setting and achieving
  results through collaboration and partnership building;
• Proven
  experience in development context, preferably in Africa;
• Significant
  experience with Food For Asset (FFA) programming and school feeding
  programmes is considered an asset;
• Past
  exposure and experience with projects in Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL)
  regions is desirable;
• Experience
  in preparing donor proposals and writing reports is an advantage.
• Good
  working knowledge of current approaches to livelihoods activities in a
  post-conflict, transition, or development context;
• Familiarity
  with national level policy dialogue (government, donors, UN agencies).
• Excellent
  written and verbal communication skills;
• Effective
  action management to plan, coordinate and prioritize multiple tasks;
• Excellent
  cognitive capacity and problem solving skills;
• Outstanding
  teamwork and interpersonal skills with ability to work patiently and tactfully
  with people of different national and cultural backgrounds;
• Excellent
  partnership skills to build strategic relationships with a wide range of
  internal and external stakeholders.

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