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• Significantly contribute towards the
  development of plans, processes and procedures ensuring compliance with
  wider budget programming policies and WFP standards.
• Create and review project budget plans and
  monitor ongoing project performance against budget, ensuring adherence to
  guidance and policies, and providing financial analysis and advice to
  optimise resources
• Regularly monitor and provide advice on
  fund utilisation, and advance financing, loan and borrowing/repayment and
  refinancing arrangements; alerting Country/Regional Directors to
  approaching deadlines for unassigned funds and potential resource
  shortfalls/surpluses, and proposing appropriate solutions.
• Keenly monitor and provide advice on
  actions related to project closure and resource transfer.
• Monitor the resource pipeline to maximise
  operational effectiveness, following standards and processes, and
  providing advice on resource allocations based on severity of pipeline
  shortfalls using relevant pipeline tools.
• Provide support in the preparation of
  food-demand plans to support management and usage of corporate Global
  Commodity Financial Facility and provide information to guide RB/HQ
  decision-making when multiple projects compete for the same stock.
• Create and review budget and project
  documentation, and ensure relevant resource data is recorded in internal
  systems for reference, in line with WFP standards and procedures.
• Collate and analyse data for the
  preparation of accurate and timely reports, to enable informed
  decision-making and consistency of information presented to senior
  management and external stakeholders.
• Proactively contribute ideas to senior officers
  for improvement to systems, techniques, tools, processes and procedures to
  better monitor and manage budgets and funds
• Support the capacity building of WFP staff
  in budgeting, fund management and operational planning through answering
  queries and updating training materials, manuals and guidelines.
• Represent the unit at internal
  meetings/committees/working groups as required, in order to obtain and
  provide information from a budget and resource programming perspective.
• Guide and supervise more junior staff,
  acting as a point of referral and supporting them with more complex
  analysis and queries.
• Follow standard emergency preparedness
  practices and contribute to technical recommendations and guidance and
  monitoring the management of financial risks.
• Perform any other duties as required.

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations
  UN World Food Programme (WFP) Budget & Programming Officer job
  opportunity should hold an advanced University degree in Business
  Administration, Finance, Economics or other relevant field, or First
  University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or
  training/courses.
• Fluency (level C) in English language and
  the duty station’s language, if different.
• Experience in the development of
  operational or office related budgets.
• Exposure and experience in contributing to
  the production of planning/budgetary reports or other analytical reports
  to support decision making.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of WFP’s
  financial architecture and how it support implementation of operations.

• Internal Controls & Compliance:
  Utilizes understanding of risk management approaches and internal controls
  to monitor projects and programmes to confirm regulatory compliance and
  ensure data integrity.
• Performance Budgeting, Reporting and
  Analysis: Manages budget, business planning, and forecasting
  discussions on a programme-wide level, integrating financial resource
  information from a portfolio of projects to analyze effectiveness and
  financial viability.
• Resource Management: Oversees
  staffing for HQ and Field resources at the programme level, taking
  resource usage trends and forecasting data into account.
• Performance Management: Applies
  knowledge of WFP’s performance management system to manage resources and
  relationships to undertake monitoring actions or deliver straightforward
  evaluations of operations, programmes, or processes to WFP monitoring
  and/or evaluation quality standards.
• Supply Chain and Operations Knowledge:
  Applies knowledge of WFP programme and supply chain principles to develop
  and/or review project budget plans.

• Understand and communicate the
  Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives
  and the link to own work objectives.
• Be a force for positive change:
  Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in
  direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving
  needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
• Make the mission inspiring to our
  team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in
  which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
• Make our mission visible in everyday
  actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall
  operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.
• People:
• Look for ways to strengthen people’s
  skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase
  self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental
  needs.
• Create an inclusive culture:
  Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others,
  regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
• Be a coach & provide
  constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching
  to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
• Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit:
  Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of
  challenging circumstances.

• Encourage innovation & creative
  solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with
  new ideas and approaches in own work.
• Focus on getting results:
  Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on
  budget and without errors.
• Make commitments and make good on
  commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities
  and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional
  priorities.
• Be Decisive: Makes
  rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain
  circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or
  manager direction.

• Connect and share across WFP units:
  Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities
  and preferred working styles.
• Build strong external partnerships:
  Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or
  escalate needs of external partners.
• Be politically agile &
  adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor
  toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
• Be clear about the value WFP brings
  to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and
  assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a
  partner.

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