Programme Policy Officer (School Feeding), FT-NOA Mogadishu
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Posting Date:
Date of Issue: 14th September 2022 Closing date: 27th September 2022
About WFP:
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide and the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.
Why join WFP Somalia?
In Somalia, the World Food Programme provides food assistance for nutrition, livelihoods, and relief through the hard work of more than 500 employees who contribute to making Somalia hunger-free in close partnership with local partners.
What will you do?
The Programme Policy Officer will work under the direct supervision of the School Feeding Consultant and overall supervision of Head of Nutrition and School Feeding Unit.
The incumbent will be responsible for the below duties:
Contribute towards the development and quality improvement of the School Health and Nutrition programme and processes, ensuring alignment with wider WFP and national programme policies.
Provide project management support to homegrown school feeding programme (HGSFP) in close coordination with the government, key stakeholders and partners ensuring complementarity to the multiple components of the HGSFP.
Contribute to the development and coordination of data gathering and monitoring systems ensuring that detailed quality standards are maintained.
Review and analyze a range of policy and operational issues to advise the development of policies, programmes, guidelines, and activities.
Contribute to preparing accurate and timely reporting on programmes and activities that enable informed decision-making and consistency of information presented to partners.
Collaborate closely with internal WFP units and external counterparts to ensure effective collaboration and implementation and highlight potential risks to project delivery.
Represent WFP at national and sub-national meetings to contribute to technical discussions, exchange experiences, advocate for school feeding and integrated school-based health and nutrition interventions and identify areas of potential collaborations.
Support the capacity strengthening of WFP staff, partners and national government specifically Education Ministries for the implementation and scale out of the school feeding programme.
Support the development of donor proposals and reports.
Perform any other duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education: Advanced University degree in Education, International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences, or other field relevant to international development assistance, or First University Degree in the above fields with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses
Knowledge and experience: One year or more years of progressively responsible professional experience in Programme operations especially in the field of School Feeding. Good knowledge and working experience with the government or various sectors especially WFP or Education agencies will be an added advantage. Good advocacy and networking skills will be an added advantage
Language: Proficiency in both oral and written communication in English and Somali is a requirement.
Are you competent for this job? Do you have
- Strong organizational skills and ability to successfully manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Understanding of donor policies, strategies and programme policies.
- Proficient knowledge and skills in data management analysis.
Terms and Conditions:
1 Year initial.
Deadline of application:
28th September 2022
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All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.
