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United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Careers – Programme Officer (Safety Nets and Resilience)
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.
Nets and Resilience (SNR) programming is to ensure the food and nutrition
security of vulnerable populations in Uganda. SNR activities are primarily
focused on livelihoods and resilience programming in the Karamoja sub-region of
Uganda. This includes asset construction and income generation activities for
households with labour capacity, targeted food assistance for extremely
vulnerable households, supplementary food assistance to address malnutrition,
and a school meals programme. The SNR Unit coordinates with the Emergency
Humanitarian Action (EHA), Agriculture Market Support (AMS), and Nutrition
sub-units within the WFP Programme Unit to implement these activities.
Field-based activities are managed from the Country Office in Kampala and
implemented through support and coordination at Sub-Office level. In addition,
the SNR Unit is substantially involved in policy dialogue and advocacy on
social protection and school feeding initiatives in Uganda.
will deliver the programming and partnership components of WFP’s SNR activities
through the following responsibilities:
- 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.
intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese,
French, Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages).
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), please apply by visiting the weblink
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application.
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