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Job Title:    Head of Field Office

Organization: United
Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Duty Station: 
Uganda

Grade:  NOB

About US:

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: Saving lives in Emergencies; Building
Resilience through Predictable Safety Nets; Improving Nutrition &
Mother-and Child Health; and Supporting Small Holder Farmers to Access Markets.
WFP has operations in various parts of the Country.

Job Summary:   The Head of Field Office will plan and manage
West Nile field operations to ensure the effective and efficient deployment of
programmes and use of allocated resources aimed at achieving Zero Hunger in the
West Nile sub-region.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Develop and maintain a sound knowledge and understanding of the
  national and district level economic, social and political situation to
  assess impact of programmes addressing Zero Hunger;
• Provide inspiring leadership to Field Office team in terms of WFP’s
  Country Strategy Plan, guiding principles, policy interpretation, guidance
  on procedures, developing and maintenance of positive attitudes, coaching
  and mentoring, constructive team behaviour, and positive relations with
  all partners;
• Through participatory approaches, support the District Local
  Government in designing and implementing community-based programmes while
  ensuring high standards of accountability and efficiency;
• In collaboration with relevant sections of the Country Office, plan,
  coordinate and manage the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
  WFP’s support in West Nile while steering the programmes towards an
  integrated approach;
• Build capacity of WFP staff and district local governments to
  conduct analysis on food security, nutrition, markets, resilience, and
  related topics to effectively inform policies and programmes;
• Play an active role in coordination with other UN agencies and partners
  in supporting the district local government drive towards coherence and
  cohesive programme delivery;
• Contribute to the Country Office situation analysis, country
  programme formulation, country programme management plan, plans of action,
  project agreements, project cooperation agreements, annual and mid-term
  reviews, annual reports, and other required documentation;
• Provide to government and partners technical support on situation
  analysis, early warning systems, policy, plan/programme/project formulation,
  project management, monitoring and evaluation.
• Provide field office staff with leadership in monitoring and
  learning;
• In cooperation with relevant units and partners in the field and
  country office, prepare or contribute to the annual report, donor reports
  and special reports, covering programme implementation, cash operations,
  personnel, special problems;
• Ensure preparedness and response capacity building for the WFP field
  office while playing an active role in inter-agency emergency preparedness
  efforts with a focus preparedness and essential needs assessment and
  analysis;
• Undertake rapid assessments as needed and lead emergency response
  interventions in West Nile with support from the Arua Area Office and
  other other Units in the Country Office;
• Lead the field office teams to prepare and monitor annual workplans
  covering all units and staff members;
• Approve and monitor the allocation and disbursement of funds in the
  Field Office, ensuring that funds and other resources are properly use in
  accordance with WFP’s rules and procedures;
• Collaborate with the retail engagement unit to support the district
  local government and partners to improve supply chain management and
  develop the capacity of local retail sector to be a key component of
  integrated and cohesive programmes in the districts;
• Monitor the procurement, storage, distribution, end use and
  maintenance of WFP’s supplies used within the districts;
• Work in close collaboration with the Area Office HR partner, enable
  requisite talent acquisition, staff development and learning and
  performance management of the field teams;
• Represent WFP in various field level engagements and activities;
• Promote extensive and intensive community engagement while ensuring
  that communication activities are effectively carried out;

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme
  (WFP) Head of Field Office job placement should hold an advanced
  University degree in Economics, Food Security Analysis, Statistics, Data Science,
  Public Health/Nutrition, Geography or other related field
• A minimum of four years in developing, or supporting in the
  development of technical and functional plans to support the achievement
  of organizational strategic aims within a evidence-based programme;
• Proven exposure to field operations, preferably in a hardship duty
  station or emergency;
• Sound and practical experience in analysing local political
  situations and assessing risk accurately;
• Proven experience in collecting geo-spatial and socio-economic food
  security data, conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, and
  reporting findings to Country Office leadership;
• Deepened technical knowledge through exposure to technical teams.
• Has taken leadership of implementing programmes.
• Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions.
• Proven experience in leading surveys, multiple assessments in
  countries, including the design, data collection and analysis;
• Proven experience of leadership of a technical team;
• Proven experience community-led programme design and implementation;
• Language: Fluency
  in written and spoken English language and a language spoken nationally

Competencies:

• Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance: Displays ability to identify the main
  hunger problem at the national or subnational level to design and
  implement context-specific programmes that integrate complex analysis and
  the full range of food assistance tools.
• 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 ability to translate understanding of programme principles
  in emergencies and protracted conflict situations into relevant,
  effective, and context specific approaches.
• 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.

NB: Female
applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially
encouraged to apply

How to Apply:

All candidates who
desire to join the United Nations World Food Programme are encouraged to submit
their applications online at the link below.

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Deadline: 16^th June 2019

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