Beirut – Partnerships Officer NOA
– This position is open to qualified Lebanese candidates only.
– Women and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply
– Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
This Vacancy Announcement will close on 25 October 2022 at 11:59 PM Rome Time.
Contract Duration:
The Partnerships Officer will be contracted for an initial term of 12 months. Contract may be extended based on business need and satisfactory performance.
Organizational background
Assisting more than 90 million people in 123 countries and territories each year, the World Food Program (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies partnering with governments, and providing common services that allow the entire humanitarian community to save lives in emergencies and build the resilience of food insecure people and communities.
As the international community has committed to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030, one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. Food and food-related assistance lie at the heart of the struggle to break the cycle of hunger and poverty.
WFP Lebanon provides humanitarian assistance to nearly 1.1 million vulnerable persons, in the form of unrestricted assistance in-kind and cash-based transfers. WFP Lebanon also provides food assistance in the form of snack and fresh food to school aged students and their families. This support is designed to improve the students’ health and make them and their families more motivated to pursue the children’s right to education.
To know more about WFP’s mission, please check the below video:
https://www.facebook.com/WorldFoodProgramme/videos/10154930622760178
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.
Job Purpose
Facilitate the work of senior staff to effectively position WFP with public, private and external partners to attract policy support, resources, technical assistance and innovative solutions to advance the work of WFP, while supporting member states in the achievement of the SDGs and Zero Hunger and emphasizing WFP’s contributions in this regard.
Key Responsibilities (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):
Under the direct supervision of the Partnerships Officer (NOB) and the overall supervision of the Head of Partnerships and Communications, the incumbent will perform the following tasks:
Analysis, research and donor intelligence
• Use data to present well-researched ideas to expand support from existing partners and to scope new partners with the aim of enhancing the impact of WFP’s work and diversifying the resource base.
• Conduct ongoing analysis on donor contributions to provide trends and forecasts of donor contributions.
• Highlight fundraising opportunities and resourcing issues through quality briefs and proactively highlight strategic issues to senior staff to inform the best course of action and nurture partnership growth.
• Gather and share partner intelligence (including forecasting), using key information systems.
• Conduct desk research and prepare background information to support programme and project proposals, draft donor profiles and develop an extensive contact list of all relevant stakeholders to ensure a positive outreach.
• Assist Partnerships Officer (NOB) in drafting guidance notes on donor priorities and developing approaches to expand the donor base, including private sector donors and research and mapping of future trends.
• Gather and share socio-political insights and partner intelligence (including forecasting), using key information systems.
Knowledge management
• Support in preparing presentations and briefs for donor meetings.
• Monitor and track opportunities and contributions from donors on weekly basis by keeping track of salesforce opportunities, PPR weekly updates, and contribution analysis, working closely with the Budget and Programming Unit.
• Assist Partnerships Officer (NOB) in maintaining oversight of the unit’s resource mobilization and donor relations portfolio by regularly updating the deck or preparing relevant briefs.
• Ensure the proper filing and management of files, keeping the record of final versions of proposals, reports, agreements, and any relevant documents.
• Support Partnerships Officer (NOB) in improving and managing the data and information flow of the unit to strengthen analytical functions and foster an evidence-informed approach to donor relations.
• Help nurture a data-driven culture within the unit, ensuring proper set-up of information system, and a common approach to data governance and acquisition.
Support on managing donor portfolio
• Support in drafting quality proposals and reports for onward submission through the coordination with functional units including Programme, Resource Management and Finance.
• Contribute to partnerships strategies and the management of a portfolio of partnerships including partner profiling, providing coordination, data and analysis to support the effective solicitation of contributions, donor stewardship and assessment of results.
• Contribute to the preparation of strategic agreements, joint strategies, funding agreements, and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), as well as amendments, as required.
• Support in organizing and facilitating donor meetings, field missions and follow-up actions, as required.
General support
• Support staff in the assigned area to ensure that standard procedures and templates are followed to drive the quality, consistency and standardisation of information management and performance reporting across WFP.
• Support the preparation of the Annual Country Report for the Annual Reporting Exercise in collaboration with the country office programme, monitoring & evaluation and resource management functions by coordinating to ensure coherence and quality of performance information.
• Support projects and operational activities that maintain and develop government partnerships in order to maximise resources raised for the programme.
• Other as required.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
• Excellent writing skills; strong skills in drafting proposals and reports, outlining and structuring documents, revising and editing, with strong English writing skills.
• Communication skills; communicates verbally and non-verbally clearly and effectively, correctly interprets messages from others and responds appropriately, clearly articulates requests’, tailors language, tone, style and format to match the audience.
• Demonstrate strong skills in developing healthy working relationships, and diplomatic approach – cross-functional unit.
• Has a basic understanding of government and corporate strategies and priorities and experience in developing multi-stakeholder partnerships.
• Has explored new partnership opportunities, provided inputs into developing solutions with prospective partners and explored new areas to scale-up existing activities.
• Is familiar with resource mobilization processes and resource strategies, and contract negotiations.
• Has supported creation of external communication and briefing materials.
• Has motivated team spirit and contributed to a gender-balanced, inclusive and sound working environment.
Standard Minimum Qualifications:
Education: Advanced University degree (i.e. Master's degree or higher) in Political Science, International Development, Development Economics, Public Health or other relevant field or First University degree in a relevant field (i.e. Bachelor’s degree) with additional years of related work experience or training/courses.
Experience: One (1) or more years of postgraduate professional experience (after completion of Advanced University degree) in partnerships, fundraising, advocacy and communications, marketing, strategy development or other related fields. Experience building and managing partnerships, including developing proposals, soliciting input for reports, drafting agreements, producing visibility plans and/or crafting joint strategies is highly desirable, or, three (3) years or more after completion of First University degree.
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in Arabic and English. Fluency in another UN language is a plus.
Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply
WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status. 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.
