Development Partnerships Officer P4 – Manila, Philippines
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WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
Sunday, June 25th, 2023
ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
The World Food Programme‘s Strategic Partnerships Division supports fostering partnerships with national governments and development actors -including International Financial Institutions – to strategically position WFP within the development sphere and mobilize new resources to achieve zero hunger and advance other related development priorities.
JOB PURPOSE
WFP’s expansion of the strategic engagement with National Government and International Financial Institutions (IFI) is part of a broader corporate effort to diversify partnerships and sources of funding, particularly around the Changing Lives agenda. This corporate effort has resulted in a record number and value of agreements with national governments, sourced from IFIs. This has included an increased engagement with the Asian Development Bank. To ensure effective and coherent support for Country Offices seeking to engage in tripartite process with national governments and the Asian Development Bank, the Strategic Partnerships Officer will ensure direct field support to Country Offices that require it.
The Strategic Partnerships Officer provides a unique bridge between programme design and partnership development. Supporting Country Offices, the incumbent will provide support in navigating engagement with government and IFI counterparts. The Officer will adapt and leverage lessons learned in a variety of contexts as support will be provided to a variety of country offices.
The Strategic Partnership Officer will work within the ADB-focused team, reporting to the Senior Director for Strategic Partnerships, in collaboration with STR IFI focal points. Support may include extended and shorter-term field missions, country-level project preparation, and other types of country-level support as requested by the Senior.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
- Proactively scan the development landscape and support exploration of viable opportunities and new approaches for WFP’s strategic engagement in the development space with the Government and other development actors, such as IFIs, particularly in the areas of rural transformation, sustainable infrastructure and human capital development, including social protection.
- Provide and ensure direct support for Country Office engagement with Governments and IFIs, including in the development of projects and proposals related to IFI and domestic resource mobilization.
- Support the design and negotiation of large/complex partnership proposals, joint strategies and/or MOUs in line with corporate norms, processes and external regulations.
- Maintain an overview of trends, opportunities, and modalities of partnering with diverse Development actors at the Regional/Global level practices to provide advice, guidance and support to HQ relevant units, Regional Bureaux and Country Offices;
- Analyse the national development plan, sectorial priorities, budgeting and spending priorities to determine how WFP could support the Government with furthering its priorities and closing the resources gap.
- Identify and support follow up on strategic and funding opportunities to partner to advance countries' development agendas and support achievement of relevant goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda, the SDGs, and other relevant platforms, within the framework of national Zero Hunger Strategic Reviews, WFP's Country Strategic Plans, and SSTC; and
- Identify thematic areas of engagement related to WFP work, seek partnerships with strategic stakeholders, and develops proposals involving relevant HQ units, RB and Cos.
- Provide strategic advice to Senior management for engagement with governmental authorities (local, subnational, and national), and other development actors including International Financial Institutions
- Provide technical advice or mobilise technical expertise, to support the development of agreements with national governments which support government efforts in the achievement of SDG 2.
- Support the design and negotiation of large/complex partnership proposals, joint strategies and/or MOUs in line with corporate norms, processes and external regulations.
- Take responsibility for incorporating gender perspectives in all areas of work, to ensure equal participation of women and men
- Promote the use of key information systems (e.g. Salesforce, WINGS, WFPGo) amongst the team to facilitate sharing of quality donor intelligence (incl. forecasting), and assess results. Other as required.
- Perform other related duties assigned by the Senior Director
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
- Advanced University degree in Political Science, International Development, Development Economics, International Relations, Law, Marketing, Communications or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.
Experience:
- At least 8 years of postgraduate progressively responsible professional experience, including specialized knowledge and experience required to design and drive strategic partnerships with national governments and International Financial Institutions.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Proven experience working with and/or within government and International Financial Institutions
- Proven experience designing and negotiating IFI funding sourced agreements
- Knowledge and experience of project design and management required to design and drive strategic partnerships with national governments and IFIs. WFP specific project/proposal design an asset.
- Strong understanding of WFP and/or IFI rules and regulations and planning processes.
- Strategic vision, analytical skills, policy design skills, negotiating capabilities, and diplomatic acumen.
- Ability to work and act under pressure and with discretion in a sensitive and challenging environment and liaise with a wide range of people at all levels.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
- Strong organization and time management skills with an ability to plan, anticipate and manage requirements for both the team and for one’s own work effectively.
- Experience leading a team
Language:
- Proficiency/level C of English and other UN language(s) preferably French or Arabic.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This is an International Professional position and is open to all nationalities.
Limited Fixed-Term Appointment (LFT) position is a non-mobile staff appointment in the international professional category for a limited period of up to 2 years. Incumbents of LFT positions are not eligible to apply for other mobile positions advertised internally through the Reassignment.
WFP offers an attractive compensation and benefits package in line with ICSC standards (http://icsc.un.org) including basic salary, post adjustment, relocation entitlement, visa, travel, and shipment allowances, 30 days’ annual leave, home leave, an education grant for dependent children, a pension plan, and medical insurance.
The selected candidate will be required to relocate to Manila, Philippines to take up this assignment.
REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
- We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, and complete, and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
- Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
- Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
- Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter
- Additional documents such as passports, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
- Please contact us at wfprecruitment@wfp.org in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
- Only shortlisted candidates will be notified
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WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment
WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.
