UN World Food Programme Policy Consultant - Pastoral Livelihoods Jobs in Ethiopia

UN World Food Programme Policy Consultant - Pastoral Livelihoods Jobs in Ethiopia

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 World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against hunger. We save lives by getting food to the hungry fast. But WFP also works to help prevent hunger in the future.

We do this through interventions that use food to build assets, spread knowledge and nurture stronger, more dynamic communities. This helps communities become more food secure. On average, WFP aims to bring food assistance to more than 80 million people in more than 123 countries.

In Ethiopia, WFP is working with the Government and humanitarian partners to strengthen the resilience of people, communities, and systems and to chart a more prosperous and sustainable future for the next generation.

Our interventions are highly contextualized and adapted to the specific needs of our beneficiaries, including smallholder farmers, pastoralists, refugees, and host communities who are most vulnerable to climate shocks.

Job Purpose

In Ethiopia, WFP is working with the Government and humanitarian partners to strengthen the resilience of people, communities, and systems and to chart a more prosperous and sustainable future for the next generation.

Our interventions are highly contextualized and adapted to the specific needs of our beneficiaries, including smallholder farmers, pastoralists, refugees, and host-communities who are most vulnerable to climate shocks.

WFP-supported resilience-building interventions in the drought-prone lowland areas in Ethiopia are focused on supporting vulnerable beneficiaries with an integrated climate-smart package that includes cash for work, indexed insurance, financial services, nature-based disaster risk reduction, restoration of degraded agricultural and range lands, improved access to water through watershed management, fodder production, and livelihood strengthening activities.

We work with both pastoral and agro-pastoral beneficiaries, supporting sustainable natural resource management while enabling restoration of degraded rangelands and agriculturally productive riverine areas to increase local productivity and strengthen market systems in support of diversified, nutritious diets.

We simultaneously focus on strengthening capacities of national and local institutions for improved early warning systems, gender transformation, and climate resilient diversified food systems.

Key Accountabilities (not all-inclusive)

Under the direct supervision of the Head of the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Building (CCARB) unit at the WFP Country Office, the Programme Policy Officer (Pastoral Livelihoods) will be responsible for providing strategic guidance and operational support for the implementation of interventions aimed at strengthening (agro)pastoralist livelihoods and building resilience in Ethiopia’s drought-prone lowland areas.

Specific tasks and responsibilities will include:

Act as a main liaison between WFP, Cooperating Partners (CPs), Government Agencies, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure adequate coordination, engagement, and knowledge transfer regarding pastoral livelihoods.

Contribute to the translation of WFP-wide programme policies into regional/local level contexts and implementation modalities and operations.

Enable synergistic approaches with external partners and other WFP programmes including Refugees, Relief, Nutrition and supply chain interventions

to maximise impact.

Lead and motivate a diverse team of professionals at CO and SO level, enabling the highest levels of performance through close individual monitoring and coaching where required.

Provide project management support to ensure adequate use of financial and human resources, and timely delivery of activities, in line with intended outcomes, following up on work planning and delivery, ensuring that any risks or bottlenecks are flagged with relevant counterparts in a timely manner, while recommending/enabling corrective measures if needed.

Ensure gender perspectives are incorporated in all relevant areas of work to ensure meaningful participation and empowerment of women and other marginalized groups. Ensure that cross-cutting issues, including gender perspectives, environment and social safeguards, accountability to affected populations and other relevant protection considerations are adequately mainstreamed.

Facilitate timely implementation of M&E activities as per WFP and donor requirements; Enable and contribute to timely analytical and critical reports, publications, and a variety of information products, concept notes and proposals for internal or external use.

Contribute to enhancing WFP’s leadership status in relevant forums and meetings; support engagement in the humanitarian-development-peace nexus contexts to seek entry points for context driven assets creation design and implementation, through direct participation and/or through briefings, information products and other training/guidance notes materials, as appropriate.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Standard Minimum Qualifications

Advanced University degree in agriculture, rural development, or related discipline.

Minimum of 5 years of postgraduate relevant professional level work experience in resilience building, agriculture, livelihood strengthening, sustainable natural resource management, and/or other relevant field, demonstrating high performance.

Solid experience in implementing resilience building and/or food for assets and/or livelihood programmes.

Experience building and fostering strategic partnerships in coordinating resilience, food assistance for assets and livelihoods programmes with government and partners (UN, NGOs, local communities, etc.).

At least one experience and/or field mission to support the setting up and running multi-disciplinary, resilience, assets creation or livelihoods programmes.

Demonstrable experience working in areas relevant to (agro)pastoralist livelihood strengthening.

Experience in programme management including design, monitoring, evaluation.

Other Required Knowledge and Skills

Knowledge & Skills:

Ability to communicate effectively and compellingly, orally and in writing.

Proven capacity to initiate and lead innovation that strives for continuous improvements.

Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, with proven ability to build and foster inclusive teams.

Good coordination skills, and ability to work independently in a timely manner.

Strong motivation to make a difference and to contribute to WFP’s mandate.

Proven effective cognitive abilities, and analytical and problem-solving skills.

Openness and passion for new experiences and multicultural environments.

Languages:

Fluency in English.

Working knowledge of Amharic would be an advantage.


How to Apply

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