Programme Assistant Ermera – FSU – SC5
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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.
Female candidates are encourage to apply.
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.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area is desirable.
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Tetum
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
The incumbent will perform the responsibilities under the supervision of Programme Assistant and general guidance of Supply Chain Officer.
JOB PURPOSE
The incumbent will provide continuously focus on strengthening sub-national capacity in the area of emergency and service provision, nutrition programme, school health and nutrition, food security and streamline supply chain. Provision the technical support to relevant line ministries and other stakeholder based at municipality level to have a better Coordination among the national and municipality level and to the relevant WFP technical focal points (e.g. School Feeding Programme, M&E and Logistics and Supply chain); and closely liaise with the government line ministries at municipality for program planning and management on a regular basis; and support them in supervision and management of the responding to the COVID-19 and flood impacts, with provision of emergency food security blanket to ensure the beneficiaries access the food distributions with more nutritious commodities in affected community, village, sub-administrative post and municipality level with run smoothly.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
Provide support to government counterpart at municipality level for any Capacity assessment, survey, capacity building/training, nutrition specific and sensitive activities, school health and nutrition including home-grown school feeding (HGSF), rice fortification, food safety, SISCa activities, Mother Support Group-SBCC, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) municipality level; Provide support to government counterpart at municipality level to ensure simplified protocol and distribution of commodities recording, and reporting formats are filled correctly by Government partners staff during monthly monitoring visits, beside that Support Collect monthly data from all the distribution sites, summarize data and transmit to the WFP Country Office; Provide support to government counterpart at municipality level to Monitor and supervise the implementation of CSP at muniplaity levels; Provide guidance to government counterpart at municipality level for have regular COORDINATION MEETING in place for emergency preparedness and response and with seeking support from Municipality President team for join intervention response to Emergency sites on the ground; Support the regular coordination with government counterpart at municipality level on the programme delivery and implementation. Such as to up-date the stock availability to line Departments at Municipality and sub-municipality and also copy a report to national level for line Ministries about food stock such as rice fortification; Non-Food Items, to focal point/program manager, Provide support to government counterpart at municipality level to Monitor and review the overall commodity movements such as food deliveries, storage, transport and distribution at the site ( e.g. Municipality storage, community hall, health facility, and school room or storage) and verify if the amounts received have been properly recorded, damaged, or suspected to be damaged; Perform other duties under the Country Strategy Plan from SO1 & SO2 as required.
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Purpose
- Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Helps teammates articulate WFP’s Strategic Objectives.
- Be a force for positive change: Suggests potential improvements to team’s work processes to supervisor.
- Make the mission inspiring to our team: Explains the impact of WFP activities in beneficiary communities to teammates.
- Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Articulates how own unit’s responsibilities will serve WFP’s mission.
People
- Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Trains junior teammates on new skills and capabilities.
- Create an inclusive culture: Seeks opportunities to work with people from different backgrounds.
- Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Serves as a peer coach for colleagues in same area of work.
- Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Tracks progress toward goals and shares this information on a regular basis with supervisor.
Performance
- Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Explores ways to consistently be more efficient and accurate in own areas of work and shares new methods of work with colleagues.
- Focus on getting results: Focuses on getting results and tracks trends in completion rates for own tasks to identify opportunities for efficiency.
- Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes responsibility for own tasks and notifies supervisor as soon as possible of potential delays in meeting deadlines or commitments.
- Be Decisive: Independently decides what action to take when faced with critical choices in the workplace or in dangerous situations in the field.
Partnership
- Connect and share across WFP units: Suggests opportunities for partnering with other units to supervisor.
- Build strong external partnerships: Identifies opportunities to work with colleagues and partners in the field towards common goals.
- Be politically agile & adaptable: Develops an understanding of the value of WFP’s teams and external partners in fulfilling team’s goals and objectives.
- Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Aligns own activities with supervisor’s priorities to fulfill internal and external partner needs.
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
• Has facilitated communication with technical teams (i.e. nutrition, VAM, etc.).
• Has contributed to implementation of programmes.
• Has observed or assisted with policy discussions.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- Competetive Salary scale
- Annual leave 1.5 working days per month.
- Sick leave up to 12 working days per year.
- Maternity and Paternity leave as applicable.
- Medical insurance cover for you and your recognized dependents. Your dependent children will be covered until the age of 21 or until the age of 25 when they continue their studies.
- Death and Disability insurance coverage.
- Social security – you will be eligible to a lump sum of 8.33% of the base monthly remuneration in lieu of pension added to your basic salary.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
15 March 2023, midnight Timor Leste time.
Note: Manual application will not be accepted
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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.
