World Food Programme Programme Officer (Safety Nets and Resilience) P3, Uganda

Job description
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the
world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. We are seeking
to fill the position of Programme Officer (Safety Nets & Resilence) at the
P3 level, based in our Country Office in Kampala, Uganda.
The objective of WFP’s Safety Nets and Resilience
(SNR) programming is to ensure the food and nutrition security of vulnerable
populations in Uganda. SNR activities are primarily focused on livelihoods and
resilience programming in the Karamoja sub-region of Uganda. This includes
asset construction and income generation activities for households with labour
capacity, targeted food assistance for extremely vulnerable households,
supplementary food assistance to address malnutrition, and a school meals
programme. The SNR Unit coordinates with the Emergency Humanitaria

n Action
(EHA), Agriculture Market Support (AMS), and Nutrition sub-units within the WFP
Programme Unit to implement these activities. Field-based activities are
managed from the Country Office in Kampala and implemented through support and
coordination at Sub-Office level. In addition, the SNR Unit is substantially
involved in policy dialogue and advocacy on social protection and school
feeding initiatives in Uganda.

Under the supervision of the Head of Programme, the
Programme Officer will deliver the programming and partnership components of
WFP’s SNR activities through the following responsibilities:
  • Plan and manage WFP’s livelihoods/resilience
    activities in the Karamoja region, implemented primarily through WFP’s
    Food For Asset (FFA) programming approach;
  • Develop and maintain key partnerships with local
    and national government counterparts, cooperating partners, and technical
    agencies for delivery of the livelihoods/resilience activities;
  • Maintain regular and systematic liaison between
    the Country Office and Sub-Offices to ensure delivery, monitoring and
    oversight of SNR activities in the Karamoja region;
  • Represent WFP in inter-agency, government, and
    donor policy and budget forums to advocate for inclusive social protection
    systems in Uganda and a national school meals programme;
  • Collaborate with WFP’s Assessment, Monitoring and
    Evaluation (AME) Unit to ensure monitoring and oversight for SNR outputs
    and outcomes is useful and accurate for accountability and management
    purposes;
  • Manage contractual agreements with cooperating
    NGOs and partnerships with Government and research institutions;
  • Provide leadership and direction in proposal
    development and donor reporting for SNR activities;
  • Provide substantive inputs to national policy
    dialogue on social protection for vulnerable households, resilience
    strategies, and for the transition to a government led school feeding
    programme;
  • Provide technical input to WFP’s monitoring tools
    and ensure relevant assessments, reviews, and evaluations of WFP’s
    livelihoods/resilience work are planned and implemented;
  • Manage SNR’s annual plan of work within the
    Programme Unit (planning, budgeting, forecasting, pipeline);
  • Provide supervision and guidance to programme
    staff within the SNR Unit;
  • Liaison with WFP senior management, logistics,
    communication and administrative units in order to implement the SNR
    programme of work;
  • Perform other related duties as required.
Qualifications & Experience Required
Education:
  • University degree, preferably at an advanced
    level, in Social Sciences, Agricultural Engineering, Rural Development or
    other related fields.
Experience:
  • At least five years (of which 3 international) of
    progressively responsible professional experience with development
    projects in the areas of food assistance programming, local level planning
    and community development;
  • Practical experience with government/donor
    liaison, project fund and NGO partnership management;
  • Experience in managing teams in a cross-cultural
    setting and achieving results through collaboration and partnership
    building;
  • Proven experience in development context,
    preferably in Africa;
  • Experience with Food For Asset (FFA) programming
    and school feeding programmes is considered an asset;
  • Experience with projects in Arid and Semi-Arid
    Land (ASAL) regions is desirable;
  • Experience in preparing donor proposals and
    writing reports is an advantage.
Technical Skills & Knowledge:
  • Knowledge of current approaches to livelihoods
    activities in a post-conflict, transition, or development context;
  • Familiarity with national level policy dialogue
    (government, donors, UN agencies).
Competencies:
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
    skills;
  • Effective action management to plan, coordinate
    and prioritize multiple tasks;
  • Excellent cognitive capacity and problem solving
    skills;
  • Outstanding teamwork and interpersonal skills
    with ability to work patiently and tactfully with people of different
    national and cultural backgrounds;
  • Excellent partnership skills to build strategic
    relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Language:
  • Fluency in oral and written English with an
    intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese,
    French, Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working
    languages).
How to apply
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NOTE: You must complete Step 1 and 2 in order for your
application to be considered for this vacancy.
Deadline for applications: 6 October 2014

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