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• Actively contribute to the development of HIV/TB and nutrition
  projects and activities, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with
  wider HIV/TB and nutrition policies and guidance
• Provide project management support to specific and defined HIV/TB nutrition
  projects and activities, ensuring a coordinated approach with wider
  programmes/projects that complies with WFP standards and procedures as
  well as national policies and guidelines
• work closely with implementing partners (internal and external) and
  government to monitor ongoing projects, ensuring effective collaboration,
  timeliness and efficiency, and highlight potential risks to project
  delivery.
• Support the identification of potential partners and partnership
  negotiations to ensure a collaborative and holistic approach to meeting
  HIV/TB nutrition needs
• Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners, national and
  sub-national government to prepare for and respond to HIV/TB nutrition
  needs for example the development of policy, guidelines, training and IEC
  materials
• Supporting advocacy, fundraising and outreach activities to ensure
  resources for food and nutrition in the HIV/TB response
• Actively participate in all relevant coordination and technical
  forums of the national response to HIV/TB at national and sub national
  level including the Joint UN Team on AIDS (JUNTA), MOH through the AIDS
  Commission, Health Sector Committee, HIV/TB working groups at national and
  field level         

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme
  (WFP) Programme Policy Officer (HIV) job placement should hold an advanced
  university degree obtained from a recognised education institution in any
  of the following areas: public health, nutrition, medicine, social
  sciences or any other related area;
• A minimum of five years of professional experience in public health,
  nutrition, Health Systems Strengthening and HIV;
• Good knowledge of and working experience within HIV/TB and
  Nutrition;
• Experience working in developing countries and in building
  partnerships with ministries of health, national AIDS programs, national
  and local non-governmental organizations;
• Experience working in public health/food security/nutrition and HIV
  related activities;
• Experience and exposure to implementation of national/international
  development programme;
• Experience in writing funding proposals for nutrition and HIV/AIDS
  response;
• Strong organizational skills, with an ability to effectively manage
  multiple tasks simultaneously;
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, in English.
• Significant experience in implementing technical programs (i.e.
  nutrition, etc.).
• Experience in implementing programmes and providing input into
  designing operations.
• Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions.

• Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance: Demonstrates ability to identify key
  variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and
  programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or
  re-design.
• Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher): Demonstrates ability to analyse and
  consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different
  sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and
  programme development.
• Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.): Demonstrates the ability to interpret
  basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to
  technical programme design, implementation and monitoring.
• Emergency Programming: Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development,
  implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes.
• Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government: Develops thorough recommendations using
  multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to
  strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and
  nutrition security programmes.

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