Roving Emergency Preparedness and Response Officer P3 – Dakar, Senegal
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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
Sunday, the 19th of February, 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 West and Central Africa region is facing multiple crisis with a number of hotspots where the deterioration is already causing significant humanitarian impact, and other where violence and fragility threatens to cause further displacements, human and livelihood losses and instability. This is against a well-known backdrop of chronic vulnerabilities, recurring shocks, state fragility and poverty, in particular in the central band of the region.
WFP continues to increase operations in the region and has launched emergency operations in Mali and CAR, North East Nigeria, and more recently Central Sahel (since September 2019) was also elevated to an L3 (and maintained since then as Corporate Attention crisis) given the magnitude of the crisis. In 2023, according to the November 2022 Cadre Harmonise updated analyses, the food security situation continues to deteriorate across the region, with 48.2 Million classified in Phase 3-5. For the 7 sahelian countries levels of food insecurity have close to quadruple the number food insecure in the last 4 years, and similar trends are observed for the coastal countries of the region, under pressure from the 4 Cs (Climate, Conflict, Covid and Costs).
To meet these challenges, WFP Regional Bureau for West and Central Africa (RBD) is strengthening its Emergency Preparedness and Response team with field-level support capacity, deployable from RBD.
JOB PURPOSE
This position core purpose is to provide remote and hands-on in country support to integrated emergency preparedness and response scale up at Country Office (CO) level, plan and support field emergency response operations to ensure effective response in terms of food assistance.
Specifically, under supervision from the Senior Regional Emergency Adviser/Head of EPR, the Roving Emergency Officer is required to support the implementation of regional preparedness and response plans, at RBD and CO level. The main part of the post holder’s responsibility is the provision of technical and practical support to CO’s preparedness planning and response scale up, including in supporting implementation at CO level through regular field deployments.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
- Advanced University degree in International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences or other field relevant to international development assistance, or First University Degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.
Experience:
- 5 years or more of professional experience in humanitarian response, including relevant experience in humanitarian operations;
- Experience supporting emergency food assistance (in-kind and/or CBT) programming and distribution is an advantage;
- Experience working in collaboration with a diverse array of humanitarian actors, including governments, NGOs, U.N. agencies, civil society, etc.;
- Experience in country-level humanitarian operations in large-scale emergencies is an advantage;
Knowledge & Skills:
- Has experience working across the food aid Program portfolio including Needs assessments, Nutrition, Beneficiaries targeting, Food distributions In-Kind and CBT and AAP in humanitarian emergency settings;
- Has led at Sub Office / Programme team or a component of a country office programme portfolio;
- Demonstrated skills in collaborative problem-solving, lateral thinking and systems development are an advantage;
- Experience working in the West Africa region is highy desirable, but not mandatory;
- Experience in drafting and developing humanitarian project proposals, donor proposals and drafting of donor/end of project reports.
Languages:
- Excellent French and English communications skills (written/speaking)
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
1. Providing support and operational guidance to WFP emergencies in the region
- Deployments to sub-office in crisis affected areas;
- Ensure effective design, development, and/or revision of WFP's Concept of Operations and provide first-level clearance of project documents/revisions directly related to the emergency;
- Ensure that emergency operation complies with WFP emergency rules, regulations and policies;
- Coordinate as required with government counterparts, UN agencies, donors, Red Cross/Crescent Movement, NGOs and regional organizations;
- Ensure corporate operational information management requirements, OTF, STF, etc.;
- Ensure cross-functional alignment and integration in support of efficient emergency response and constant operational oversight.
2. Provide technical advice and support to RB/CO to ensure adequate levels of preparedness, quality early warning analysis, triggered early action, and effective emergency response.
- Through established systems/mechanisms (EPRP tracker, CAS, STF, OTF), identify and monitor implementation of minimum/enhanced preparedness, early action, and emergency response.
- Prepare or review of CSPs to ensure integration of minimum preparedness and capacity strengthening.
- Timely prepare emergency response plans, including concept of operations, budget revisions and requests for resources, staffing, GCMF, etc. (financial, other).
- Strengthen emergency preparedness and response capacity of WFP and its partners including through training, lessons learned and knowledge management.
- Manage accurate and timely emergency information and reporting to enable informed decision-making and consistency of information presented to a wide range of stakeholders.
- Develop, share and/or review timely and high-quality analytical reports, publications, information products, protocols, concept notes and proposals for internal and external use;
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Mobility is and continues to be, a core contractual requirement in WFP. The selected candidate will be employed on a fixed term as well as a rotational contract with a probationary period of one year.
WFP offers an attractive compensation and benefits package, including basic salary, post adjustment, relocation entitlement, travel, visa and shipment allowances, 30 days’ annual leave, home leave, an education grant for dependent children, a pension plan, and medical insurance. For more information, visit https://icsc.un.org/.
The selected candidate will be required to relocate to Dakar, Senegal to take up this assignment.
REMINDERS BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION
- We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete, and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
- Once your profile is complete, 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 passport, 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.
