Programme Associate (Resilience and School Feeding) G6 _ Ngaoundéré
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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
World Food Programme Cameroon implements operations in different regions of the country including Adamawa Regions In the Adamawa region, WFP has a Field Office located in Ngaoundéré (Vina division) and is responsible for operations in the region. WFP has also an Antenna located in Meiganga (Mbéré division). The Field Office is providing food assistance to about 100,000 beneficiaries assisted through General Food Assistance, Nutrition, FFA, Home Grown School Feeding and Cash Based Transfers. To better position it to serve the population assisted. This job is found in Ngaoundéré Office.
JOB PURPOSE
Under the direct supervision of the Programme Policy Officer and the Head of Field-office, the Programme Associate will be responsible for the following duties but not limited to:
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
Resilience Activities (FFA)
- Support in rapid operational diagnosis, technical targeting, integration of the 3A approach, planning studies based on livelihoods and participatory community planning.
- Participate in the development of operational and M&E plans for resilience activities and ensure synergies with other Field Office activities and units;
- Provide guidance and participate in the competency assessment process, including area selection, field data collection, partner selection, proposal review and concept notes;
- Contribute to ensuring better use of the financial resources allocated to resilience activities and set up a monitoring and budgetary control plan for projects in progress.
- Support capacity strengthening of cooperating partners and technical services.
- Work with the communication and reporting unit to report on FFA success stories in the North and Adamawa region.
- Work with the Nutrition team to ensure proper integration of nutrition through resilience activities (social Behavior Change Communication, screening methodology…)
- Support elaboration or review of strategic documents of Ngaoundere FO (FFA monthly brief, SITREP, Senior staff meeting, Annual Country Report, Annual Performance Plan….;
- Liaise with technical services and undertake visits to FFA sites to assess results; liaise with Logistic unit to follow up FFA food and storage and ensuring that progress is made towards achieving of FFA Objectives
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HOME GROWN SCHOOL FEEDING
- Contribute to the design of school feeding projects that provide better opportunities to strengthen communities, promote self-reliance, strengthen livelihoods and build resilience to shocks.
- Contribute to the design of the school feeding information system, an operational and M&E plan and a joint school targeting methodology with stakeholders, in liaison with the RAM team, to ensure that key aspects of program design are properly followed.
- Support capacity strengthening of cooperating partners and technical services
- Work with the communications, reporting unit to report on HGSF success stories in the Northern and Adamawa regions.
- Work with the Nutrition team to ensure that nutritious meals are served to pupils and refer to FSQ staff in Douala with regard to quality control.
- Support elaboration or review of strategics documents of Ngaoundere FO (HGSF monthly brief, SITREP, Senior staff meeting, Annual Country Report, Annual Performance Plan;
- Liaise with HGSF project implementing authorities and undertake visits to HGSF project schools to assess results and beneficiaries, inspect cooking/storage places and receiving points of WFP commodities in the project area. HGSF, ensuring that progress is made towards achieving HGSF project objectives.
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Purpose
- Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
- Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
- Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
- Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.
People
- Look for ways to strengthen people’s skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
- Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
- Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
- Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.
Performance
- Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
- Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
- Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
- Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.
Partnership
- Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
- Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
- Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
- Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.
FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES
| Capability Name | Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level |
| Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance | Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design. |
| Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Vouchers) | Demonstrates ability to implement, under guidance, food assistance programmes deploying the full range of transfer modalities with an understanding of basic principles guiding modality selection and implementation. |
| Broad Knowledge of Specialized Areas | Understands basic technical concepts and data and their relevance to food assistance programmes. |
| Emergency Programming | Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes. |
| Strategic Policy Engagement w/Government | Understands and applies basic principles of engagement with government counterparts at the national or local level. |
OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS
This section is optional to describe additional responsibilities & knowledge required for the specific job.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Completion of secondary school education. A higher education level (bachelor’s in Agronomy, Food Processing, Development Sciences, Education, Social, Economics, Statistics or Demography) would be an asset.
Experience: 6 years of experience in general programme, of which at least 2 years in the areas of livelihoods, food processing, post-harvest losses development, social sector, education, or cash transfers.
Knowledge & Skills:
Experience and expertise with designing, setting up and implementing self-reliance and value chains projects.
Knowledge of corporate 3PA guidance of WFP would be an advantage.
Knowledge on food processing and post-harvest losses management would be an advantage.
Experience in managing education programme would be an advantage.
Experience in the use of CBTs for emergency response through social protection systems.
Proficiency in Windows MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook) and MS TEAMS (Sharepoint);
Language:
Fluency (level C) in French language and Fluency (level C) or intermediate knowledge (level B) in English
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
- Has worked with technical teams (i.e. nutrition, VAM, etc.).
• Has contributed to implementation of programmes.
• Has observed or assisted with policy discussions.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
OCTOBER 11, 2022
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All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.
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