Senior Programme Associate (Early Warning) Service Contract 7, Addis Ababa
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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
WFP is seeking to fill a Service Contract position for national Early Warning Experts, based in the WFP Ethiopian Country Office, Addis Ababa.
WFP is seeking to enhance its capacities and expertise by recruiting a Programme Officer who will provide technical support and guidance on early warning and related activities to support an integrated risk management approach across VAM’s portfolio. WFP aims to implement this work through capacity building of the EDRMC (Ethiopia Disaster Risk Management Commission) and its regional wings.
The focus of this function will be to ensure that the early warning capacity strengthening activities are implemented according to project timelines and integrated across relevant government, VAM, and other program sections initiatives. The Programme officer will be working on capacity-strengthening activities at national and regional levels and specific activities include identifying capacity needs, project proposal development, organizing/facilitating training, and workshops, follow up fund utilization and reporting, report writing, and ensuring project deliverables are met on time and on budget.
JOB PURPOSE
The overall goal of the early warning capacity strengthening initiative is to produce accurate and timely early warning information that are useful for early action and timely & appropriate response. The project will achieve this by strengthening national capacities and systems for data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
Under the general supervision and guidance of the Programme Policy Officer, GIS & mapping, within the delegated authority, the incumbent will be responsible for the following duties:
• Identify potential synergies with other early warning system enhancement initiatives in the regions/country and identify capacity gap and needs.
• Develop project proposal on capacity strengthening based on the identified gap
• Conduct multi-stakeholder workshops and trainings on early warning data collection, analysis
• Support EDRMC’s early warning data management
• Ensure timely commitment of funds and its utilization
• Report writing for mid and end of project timelines, support to communications and advocacy, presentations, and knowledge sharing
• Liaise with national counterparts, to support effective collaboration, implementation, compliance, and monitoring of ongoing project activities.
• Support the Early warning capacity building in different regions.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
• Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary education in Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Disaster Risk Reduction, Social science, or other related fields or 5 years of equivalent professional work experience, combined with a first university degree in a related discipline.
Experience:
• Seven years of working experience focusing on early warning and food security assessment /analysis activities including training development, facilitating and organizing training, and community engagement. or 5 years of equivalent professional work experience, combined with a first university degree
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in the English language.
TECHNICAL SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE:
• Ability to work independently in a timely and organized manner.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
• Ability to work in a team and multi-task as needed.
• A strong understanding of food security and early warning in the context of Ethiopia
COMPETENCIES:
• Ability to use data to effectively explain complex matters to influence a variety of audiences.
• Ability to visualize data in creative ways that support scenarios and storytelling.
• Creative problem-solving skills and strong attention to detail.
• Can see patterns and trends in data, to pull out insights and connect the dots for others to see.
• Takes a data-oriented approach to decision-making.
• Self-motivated and results-oriented.
• Strong track record of delivering results in a complex environment.
• Possess strong organizational and detail-oriented skills.
• Demonstrable ability to work within multi-disciplinary teams.
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Purpose
- Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
- Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
- Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
- Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.
People
- Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
- Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
- Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
- Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.
Performance
- Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
- Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
- Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
- Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.
Partnership
- Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
- Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
- Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
- Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Job Title: Senior Programme Associate (Early Warning Expert)
Contract Type & Grade: Service Contract Level 8
Duty Station: Addis Ababa Office
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
11 November 2022 (Open to Ethiopian National Only)
This position is open to all qualified candidates. Female applicants and people with disability are especially encouraged to apply.
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