United Nations World Food Programme Jobs in South Sudan

United Nations World Food Programme Policy Officer Career Opportunities in South Sudan

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 Qualification

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.

Language: International Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language.

Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or WFP’s working language, Portuguese.

Job Purpose

Under the direct supervision of the Head of Emergency Response Unit, the candidate will be responsible for organizing, preparing for and leading field mission deployments to carry out large scale registrations, general food distributions (GFDs), rapid assesments and other related emergency response activities, including deploying in emergency surge capacity to support WFP Sub Offices.

Key Accountabilities

Ensure all mission specific reporting including narrative and distribution reports are prepared and submitted to relevant WFP Units as required.

Ensure all operational procedures, communications protocols are observed.

Manage all administrative duties and ensure that mission expenses in the field are in accordance WFP Financial Rules and Regulations and completed and all financial acquittals at the termination of each mission.

Research and analyse policy and operational issues to support senior colleagues in the
development of policies, programmes and activities.

Support the capacity building of WFP staff and partners to prepare for and respond to food assistance needs.

Provide guidance to support staff, acting as a point of referral and assisting them with analysis and queries.

Carry out any other Official business assigned to you by the Head of Emergency Response Unit.

4Ps Core Organizational Capabilities

Purpose

Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving

needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.

Functional Capabilities

Capability Name Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level
Programme Life cycle & Food Assistance

Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the life cycle to inform quality programme design or re-design.

Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher)

Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development.

Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.) Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring.

Emergency Programming Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes.

Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government Develops thorough recommendations using multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition security programmes.

Desired Experience for Entry into the Role

Has gained experience in implementing technical programs (i.e. nutrition, etc.).

Has implemented programmes and provided input into designing operations.

Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions.

Substantial experience in emergy and deep field operations, preferably in hardship duty stations.

Experience in complex security enviroments, with proven ability to carry out risk assessments, implement risk mitigation measures and manage field level security coordination

Has experience leading multi-disciplinary teams in complex field environments

Has participated in a large-scale emergency or development programmes

Has experience working across the program portfolio areas including FSL/SCOPE/VAM/Nutrition.

Is able to work under extreme pressure, in rapidly changing enviloments
Is willing to regularly travel and stay in deep field locations with very difficult living conditions for extended periods of time (10-20 day missions, in the field 50-70% of the time).

How to Apply:

For more information and job application details, see; United Nations World Food Programme Policy Officer Career Opportunities in South Sudan

Deadline for Applications
30TH MAY 2017