JOB DESCRIPTION
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.
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.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. WFP Rwanda works in partnership with the Government and other stakeholders through the direct implementation of integrated programmes targeting the most vulnerable people and will progressively shift towards building national capacity to formulate, manage and implement programmes for achieving zero hunger. In implementing its activities, WFP will bridge the humanitarian–development nexus and leverage its extensive experience and the contributions it has made in Rwanda over many decades in order to achieve four strategic outcomes. Strategic Outcome 2 focuses on ensuring that vulnerable populations in food-insecure communities and areas have improved access to adequate and nutritious food all year. This Strategic Outcome encompasses capacity strengthening and direct programme implementation in the areas of social protection, disaster management, vulnerability analysis, school feeding and climate-resilient livelihoods or food assistance for assets.
Under Strategic Outcome 2, WFP implements activities to build livelihoods and resilience through the SMART project, funded by the Korean Government and inspired by the Korean integrated development model, tailored to the Rwandan context. The project seeks to enhance community resilience to natural shocks, connect smallholder farmers to formal markets using integrated value chain approaches and approaches strengthening community organisation and cohesion. The project models shock-responsive and nutrition- and gender-sensitive approaches to resilience-building. Th activities will be implemented in five districts around Rwanda with the highest levels of food insecurity and vulnerability to shocks, benefitting 180,000 people, in the period 2020-2023. This position provides overall management and leadership to this project.
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under the direct supervision of the Strategic Outcome 2 Manager, the incumbent will carry out the following responsibilities:
– Manage the development and implementation of project plans and activities, providing technical oversight and guidance to the team and colleagues, providing inputs into programmatic strategy and identifying opportunities for programme quality improvement and innovation.
– Lead the development of innovative monitoring and evaluation tools and approaches for the project, in close collaboration with the M&E unit, ensuring relevant and credible
quantitative and qualitative data and evidence is generated and actively utilized to inform the activities.
– Ensure the analysis of qualitative information and quantitative programme data and trends and oversee consultative processes to identify lessons learnt. Coordinate internal knowledge management ensure lessons are used to inform programme design.
– Ensure implementation of annual surveys on data collection on agreed outcome indicators as well as effective monitoring of programme implementation and quality.
– Ensure quality and timeliness of data entered in the corporate beneficiary management and monitoring systems, particularly COMET.
– Plan, monitor, and prioritise resources to maximise their effectiveness in the delivery of the activities, providing reports to the donor and management in a timely manner.
– Manage key activity-specific operational partnerships with government and non-government partner entities and contracts with suppliers, ensuring compliance with the project plan and corporate standards.
– Develop programme reports and proposals drawing on the latest strategy and analysis.
– Manage, develop and motivate a team of supervisees, and ensure effective coordination with field offices and other country office units.
– Support policy and strategic engagement with government and strategic partners and represent WFP in key forums, actively sharing project experiences with Government of Rwanda, development partners and donors.
– Liaise with the donor (KOICA) as required.
– Perform other duties as required.
DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT
Activity implementation strategies and budgets developed, implemented and reported in a timely manner and in line with WFP and donor standards.
– Resources well managed and reported on in line with corporate and donor requirements.
– Forward-looking M&E framework and tools developed and implemented in a timely manner and evidence proactively disseminated in key forums.
– Technical guidance and backstopping made available to both Kigali and field-based staff as well as partners to ensure high-quality programming.
– Operational partnerships established and well managed.
– Quality M&E processes and reports implemented and actively used for decision-making.
– Activity reviews and evaluations carried out and reports available.
– Quality project funding proposals and reports developed in a timely manner.
– Human resource requirements for delivery of the activity identified and well managed.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Holding an advanced university degree in one of the following fields: social sciences, statistics, development economics, performance management, monitoring and evaluation or other related fields, or a first university degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or training/courses.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
At least five years of relevant professional experience in development or humanitarian project or programme management. High priority given to candidates with strong monitoring and evaluation experience.
Knowledge & Skills:
• Strong skills or experience in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation processes.
• Experience working in developing country context, preferably in food security or resilience projects or programmes.
• Experience coordinating or leading a programme team or a component of a programme portfolio.
• Experience in engaging in policy and strategy discussions and providing input into these.
• Ability to analyse and identify opportunities for and propose solutions to programme quality improvement.
• Analytical skills with ability to compile, analyse and interpret data, prepare reports and draw conclusions and recommendations.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to deal patiently and tactfully with people of different national and cultural backgrounds and to manage external partnerships.
Languages:
• Excellent written and spoken English; with fluent written and spoken Korean language skills an added advantage.
FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
JOB TITLE: Programme Policy Officer
TYPE OF CONTRACT: International Consultant
UNIT/DIVISION: Programme Unit/Strategic Outcome 2
DUTY STATION : Kigali, Rwanda
DURATION: 11 months
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
August 22, 2021 23:59 CAT
Female applicants and qualified applicants are especially encouraged to apply
WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.
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.
