United Nations World Food Programme Programme Policy Officer Jobs in Uganda
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) 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.
The Programme Policy Officer (Zero Food Loss Training Manager) will report to the Head - Global Post Harvest Knowledge & Operations Centre (KNOC) and will act asFocal Point for post-harvest smallholder farmer training / private sector supply chain to assist countries with initial rollout of Zero Food Loss Initiative, and to track both WFP and RBA global progress towards reduced post-harvest loss.
Responsibilities
Coordinate, at a global level, resources for country offices who request support for post-harvest loss reduction activities. These may include planning & programme design, M&E, fundraising, staffing design, training, finance, engineering, communication, project management & monitoring, private sector links, IT aspects, and government relations.
At global level, be the lead expert for post-harvest loss reduction training: development of pedagogy, farmer manuals, train-the-trainer techniques, facilitator guides, and assessment/evaluation forms; for all areas, strive for quality and consistency in material and method
At global level, be the lead expert for post-harvest loss reduction monitoring: establish continually refine, and share best techniques for overall project monitoring
Maintain close collaboration with the Rome-based agencies (RBA) Food Waste and Food Loss Project, with a specific focus on sharing knowledge with the Community of Practice, in particular for WFP’s involvement in DRC, Burkina Faso and Uganda
Explore/create, develop, pilot and evaluate potential alternative methods for mass training/awareness building in coordination with the WFP Post-harvest KNOC Communications Officer
Explore/create, develop, pilot & evaluate alternative methods for digital training/awareness building
Explore and action opportunities to leverage and integrate post-harvest training into the myriad other training materials that WFP has and is developing for smallholder farmers, with the objective of having a standardized set of smallholder farmer trainings, with a specific focus on gender and nutrition
Collaborate with the WFP Post-Harvest KNOC M&E Officer to ensure that evaluation of training effectiveness is incorporated into M&E frameworks for all post-harvest implementations
Manage the ‘sharing’ training knowledge module of the Global Post-Harvest Centre internal website
4Ps Core Organisational 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.
People
Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background,
culture, experience, or country assignment.
Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.
Performance
Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.
Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.
Partnership
Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.
Functional Capabilities
Capability NameDescription of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level
Strategic Management Displays basic understanding of WFP’s policies and strategies to perform monitoring and/or evaluation activities and their inter-relationship.
Performance Management Applies knowledge of WFP’s performance management system to manage resources and relationships to undertake monitoring actions or deliver straightforward evaluations of operations, programmes, or processes to WFP monitoring and/or evaluation quality standards.
Qualitative/Quantitative Methodology Understand and applies an appropriate mix of established methods and data collection tools to monitoring, reviews or straightforward evaluations, in line with WFP’s strategic and operational results frameworks (metrics), WFP guidance and technical standards.
Data Analytics and Visualization Collects and summarizes programme data, including information on shipments, distribution site logistics, the status of personas in need, and beneficiaries planned and reached for all programme assistance modalities and activities.
Programme Monitoring and Review Gathers, organizes, and provides data on programme outputs, processes, and outcomes, including distribution plans and the status, quantity, and quality of food and cash distributed and technical assistance provided.
Qualifications
University degree in one of the following disciplines: Agricultural economics, Agribusiness
At least 5 years of experience working on smallholder farmer livelihood improvement
Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language.
How to apply
Interested candidates should apply online by 29th April, 2018
For more information and job application details, see; United Nations World Food Programme Programme Policy Officer Jobs in Uganda
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