Programme Policy Officer (Programme Support Unit/PSU) NOB Vacancy-Job Ref: JKNEWFP/2006/202473

Programme Policy Officer (Programme Support Unit/PSU) NOB Vacancy-Job Ref: JKNEWFP/2006/202473
Niamey (Niger)
JOB DESCRIPTION

WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.

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.

The WFP offers equal opportunities to all.

The WFP is committed to promoting a work culture in which all employees understand and are able to carry out their professional responsibilities and maintain the dignity of their co-workers. The WFP offers career opportunities for its employees and supports them in their professional development through training and continuous learning.

The WFP is also committed to creating and maintaining a harmonious workplace climate based on mutual respect and understanding, free from discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment and abuse of authority, and respectful of diversity. The WFP is committed to diversity and inclusion in its workforce and encourages qualified female and male applicants from all religious and ethnic backgrounds to apply. The WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

Finally, WFP seeks to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment and is certain that its mission to fight world hunger can only be achieved if women, men, girls and boys have equal opportunities to access resources and services and to participate in decision-making roles.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
These jobs are found in Headquarters (HQ), Regional Bureaux (RBs) or Country Offices (COs) and job holders report to a more senior Programme Policy Officer.
Job holders operate with a high degree of independence, manage more junior staff to ensure that programme and policy objectives are achieved in full. They are usually involved in a wide variety of programme and policy activities and analytical work, some of which may be of a considerable complexity. At this level job holders are expected to contribute to performance improvement.

JOB PURPOSE
The aim of this post is to help strengthen national and local capacities for climate action, to ensure better decision-making and intelligent planning in the face of the immediate and future effects of climate change. The position also aims to ensure the link between climate change and risk financing issues with food security and social protection.
Under the direct supervision of the Social Protection Officer, and in close collaboration with the Rural Development Unit, the incumbent will provide support in the activities.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
Contribute towards the development of a wide variety of projects, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider programme policies and guidance.
Provide project management support to specific and defined programmes and projects of considerable size/complexity, ensuring a coordinated approach with wider programmes that complies with WFP standards and procedures.
Develop and coordinate data gathering and monitoring systems ensuring that rigorous quality standards are maintained.
Research and analyse a range of policy and operational issues to inform the development of policies, programmes and activities.
Contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on programmes and activities that enable informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
Liaise with internal and external counterparts to ensure effective collaboration, monitor ongoing projects and highlight potential risks to project delivery.
Support the identification, development and management of potential partnerships to collaborative working leading to improved food assistance packages.

8. Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government to prepare for and respond to food assistance needs, e.g. through providing inputs into training materials.

9.Guide and supervise more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries

10. Supervise the Programme Support Unit (PSU)

11. Ensure timely management of the FLA/MOU cycle (evaluation of the partners, and Cooperating Partners Committees meetings), in coordination with all technical units and Sub-offices

12. Ensure CP payments are done in accordance to the latest SOPs and that payments are timely delivered to CPs, in coordination with all technical units and Sub-offices.

13. Lead the CO Actions on Assurance plan / CP Management

14. Provide technical support to the partners, Sub-Offices, activity managers and government technical services on budgeting, FLAs management, financial reporting, and payments.

15. Provide technical training to the partners, Sub-Offices, activity managers and government technical services on contracting and on different component of an FLA including cross-cutting issues: gender, clause anti-corruption, clause on protection and sexual exploitation and abuse.

16. Perform all transactions required in WFP’s corporate systems (e.g., SOA, POs WINGS, COMET) taking into consideration funds expiration dates (TDD).

17. Support regular CP Spot-check missions and ensure recommendations / action plan is properly followed up .

18. Provide timely progress report on FLAs and MOU management and on CP expenditures.

19. Provide high quality inputs for technical meetings (donors meetings, CPC, RMC, SCWG…).

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 Name
Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level
Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance Displays ability to identify the main hunger problem at the national or subnational level to design and implement context-specific programmes that integrate complex analysis and the full range of food assistance tools.
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 ability to translate understanding of programme principles in emergencies and protracted conflict situations into relevant, effective, and context specific approaches.
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.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Advanced university degree in Master’s degree in geography, environmental sciences, earth system sciences, climatology, meteorology, disaster risk management or related disciplines or First university degree with at least 2 additional years of related work experience.
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.

Experience: At least three (3) years of progressively responsible professional postgraduate (Master’s) experience at senior levels in international development, government aid programmes or other related fields.or a minimum of five (5) years of professional experience in the same fields for First University degree holders.
National Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different.

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS
Demonstrated technical expertise in climate services
– Relevant professional experience in food security, agriculture, humanitarian aid or development.
– Experience of climate change adaptation activities (water and soil conservation activities, soil defence and restoration, agroforestry).
– Experience of climate risk financing activities.

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