United Nations World Food Programme Senior Programme Associate (Food Systems) Jobs in Uganda
United Nations World Food Programme Senior Programme Associate (Food Systems) Jobs in Uganda
About WFP 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.
In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 80 countries each year.
The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to food and contribute to lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas.
Brief description of WFP in Uganda
WFP delivers food assistance in emergencies and work with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. WFP provides life-saving food assistance and livelihood opportunities to refugees in Uganda. In addition, WFP assists the most vulnerable people in Karamoja with food and nutrition assistance. Finally, WFP works with smallholder farmers and links them to markets.
As Uganda strives to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and become a middle-income country by 2040, WFP is also assessing its relevance and repositioning its role in Uganda.
Are You Up to the Challenge?
We are seeking a qualified individual for the position of Senior Programme Associate (Food Systems), G7 to be based in Kampala. The selected candidate will be employed on Fixed Term Contract (12 months renewable)
Organizational Context
The Job is found in the Uganda Country Offices (COs). The job holder typically reports to a Programme Policy Officer (AMS).
Towards the over-arching goal of Zero Hunger, the UN World Food Programme - Uganda's Resilience portfolio aims at household and community resilience by integrating WFP programmes, partnering with development actors especially UN to UN collaboration and providing technical assistance to national and sub-national institutions.
The agriculture and market support program constitutes the smallholder development portfolio of the Uganda Country Office and is housed within the broader Food Systems, Nutrition, Gender and Protection unit.
Job Purpose
To provide effective specialized support and technical analyses to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food systems goals. The incumbent is expected to work under minimal supervision and produce organised, accurate work and analytical reports including providing guidance to partners on standard WFP delivery assistance.
Key Accountabilities
The incumbent will be responsible for the following duties:
Participate in annual activity planning and review.
Program operations: support the AMS team in Kampala to coordinate and document meetings, trainings, and events; pre-commit funds, initiate procurement requests, and monitor expenditures in Kampala and the field vis-à-vis costed annual performance plans.
Liaise with the Finance Unit in financial reporting to the donors.
Coordinate with the Partnership Unit and the field to select CPs.
Contribute to programme design discussion and document writing.
Support in the synthesis of programme results and provide input into analysis.
Provide programme operational support e.g. procurement and partnership management
Focal Point for operational inquiries within the Head Office vis-a-vis field offices and partners.
Assist in the organisation of meetings and workshops.
Organize/participate in public events for WFP programmes.
Conduct quarterly activity monitoring field visits.
Contribute to the documentation of programme achievements and lessons learnt
Manage physical and electronic filing systems
Standard Minimum Qualifications
Education: A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Sciences, Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, social sciences, development studies, or related field from a
recognized institution.
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in the UN language in use at the duty station and in the duty station’s language,
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
At least five (5) or more years of progressive responsible work experience of implementing livelihoods, food security, agricultural development, or market systems development.
Experience in livelihoods programming in emergency and complex contexts e.g., refugee or disaster-prone contexts.
Demonstrated understanding of the livelihood conceptual frameworks, market systems development or pro-poor market concepts,
Experience in humanitarian and development project implementation
Experience in monitoring of humanitarian and development projects.
Computer knowledge and skills in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Power point.
Other Specific Job Requirements
Has worked with technical teams (i.e. agricultural market development, livelihoods, market systems etc.).
Has contributed to implementation of programmes.
Has observed or assisted with policy discussions.
Demonstrated basic understanding of WFP’s policies and strategies to perform monitoring and/or evaluation activities and their inter-relationship.
Ability to collect and summarize programme data, including information on the status of personas in need, beneficiaries planned and reached for all program assistance modalities and activities.
Ability to gather, organise, and provide data on program outputs, processes and outcomes including on technical assistance provided.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; United Nations World Food Programme Senior Programme Associate (Food Systems) Jobs in Uganda
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