Programme Policy Officer (Social Protection) P3

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

WFP is looking to sustain and expend its support to national social protection systems in Jordan, including provision of technical assistance and advisory services to enhance government structures and support national efforts to assist vulnerable populations in Jordan.

With the support of relevant actors, the Government is working on the operationalization of the National Social Protection Strategy which calls for strengthened effectiveness, efficiency and shock responsiveness of social protection programmes, such as the social assistance scheme led by National Aid Fund (NAF) and the National School Feeding Programme (NSFP) managed by the Ministry of Education. While already working extensively on both programmes, WFP is looking to share its expertise and know-how with other pillars of the social protection system, including social security and social services, as well as collaborate with different national actors, such as the Ministry of Labor, Social Security Corporations and Ministry of Agriculture.

WFP also intends to explore more sustainable options for refugees including harmonization between its humanitarian assistance to refugees through general food assistance (GFA) and the national social safety net.

JOB PURPOSE

WFP is looking for a Programme Policy Officer to manage the social protection portfolio (CSP strategic outcome 2). He/she will lead the capacity strengthening initiatives for the government actors, as well as oversight of the school feeding activity. He/she will report to the Head of Programme and directly supervise the staff from CSP social protection and school feeding activities while working closely with Programme Support teams (CBT, M&E) as well as other CSP Activities such as those related to humanitarian response to refugees, emergency preparedness and response, and sustainable livelihoods

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive)

1.Lead WFP’s technical work on social protection:

• Provide technical advice for the Government on a wide range of social protection programme and policy issues to support government efforts to reduce hunger, malnutrition and poverty through national social protection systems.
• Provide technical assistance to government counterparts (NAF, MoSD, MoE) to enhance social protection systems, including design, targeting, delivery, verification, accountability, evidence generation and reporting, in close coordination with the World Bank and UN agencies including UNICEF, ILO and UNDP
• Facilitate technical knowledge and experience sharing on enhancing shock-responsiveness and inclusiveness of the national social protection system.
• Contribute to the design and operationalization of referrals mechanisms between different key service providers based on robust and interoperable information management systems (i.e NUR).
• Identify areas for decentralized capacity strengthening support to national actors at the local level and design a roadmap for technical assistance provision.
• Contribute to strategic and technical efforts for the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, including the harmonization between humanitarian unconditional assistance and national social assistance, and foster sustainable linkages between social assistance, social security and livelihoods/self-reliance building programmes.

2.Guide WFP social protection strategy in Jordan:

• Formulate WFP’s social protection vision in Jordan, adapting the WFP global social protection strategy to the Jordanian context and its national priorities.
• Explore opportunities to link informal workers such as small-holder farmers or school feeding kitchen workers to social security/insurance schemes, in close collaboration with CSP activities related to school feeding, emergency preparedness and response, self-reliance building and climate action.
• Formulate and implement a monitoring framework to generate evidence on institutional capacity strengthening results, in collaboration with VAME unit.

3.Involvement in broader Social Protection discussions:

• Enhance WFP’s leadership status in different forums on subjects related to social protection through direct contribution to discussions or policy/strategy formulation and provision of briefings, presentations and other knowledge products.
• Foster South-South and Triangular Cooperation for social protection knowledge sharing and best practice promotion.
• Contribute to the design and operationalization of the shock responsive social protection chapter within the national social protection strategy.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of graduation workstream and transitional pathways for beneficiaries of non-contributory schemes (i.e social assistance) to contributory and more sustainable social protection schemes (social insurance).

4.Oversee the school feeding activity:

• Orient the technical assistance and provision of advisory services to the Ministry of Education in line with the operationalization of the national school feeding strategy action plan
• Ensure the complementary direct delivery component of the school feeding activity is planned and implemented effectively and efficiently.

5.Partnerships:

– Sustain established partnerships and develop new ones in line with the needs identified within the social protection domain and opportunities for collaborative approaches.

6.Team management:

– Manage the team in line with the workplan of the CSP social protection pillar to ensure expected deliverables are met in a timely manner.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Advanced University degree in Social Sciences, International Relations, Economics, Public Administration, Public Policy or other field relevant to international development assistance with at least 6 years of experience in national social protection implementation in middle-income countries or First University Degree with 8 years of related work experience.

Experience: Five (5) years of operational experience in national social protection systems, including responsibility for liaising with different line ministries at national and decentralized levels.

Language: Fluency in spoken and written English. Knowledge of Arabic is an advantage.

Knowledge & Skills:

Experience in middle-income countries from the Middle East region desired (especially Jordan, Turkey, Egypt).

Work experience with UN, donor or IFI desired.

Demonstrated diplomatic skills and capacity to nudge government action

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Type of contract: Limited Fixed-term Professional

Duration: 3 Years (with possibility for extension)

Applications must be submitted online through WFP e-Recruitment System

Internal WFP staff can access the VA through the internal WFP CAREER page via the link: http://newgo.wfp.org/services/e-recruitment

External applicants are kindly requested to follow the link: http://www1.wfp.org/careers/job-openings

Make sure that you answer all mandatory questions accurately and to attach your updated CV in English.

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Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 4 March 2023

Ref. VA No. 475843

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