Partnership/Communication/Reporting Officer/NOB

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WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

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.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Partnership and reporting specific responsibilities
1. Implement the work plan for assigned area by delivering activities that maintain and develop government partnerships in order to maximize resources raised for the CSP.
2. Contribute to the management of a portfolio of partnerships, soliciting contributions, providing donor stewardship, and analyzing results, in order to maximize resources raised.
3. Prepare especially funding proposals to raise donor contributions
4. Provide support to technical units as required, in order to assist them to effectively raised donor contributions.
5. Prepare briefs on resourcing issues for the country, participate in the Strategic Programme Review Process (s-PRP) and the Electronic Programme Review Process (e-PRP), and operate as a resourcing focal point in order to ensure that concerns are adequately considered.
6. Guide more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with more complex analysis and queries.
7. Participate and assist in negotiations for contributions and partnership agreements, in line with internal policies and external regulations, in order to reach advantageous outcomes, such as more flexibility and predictability.
8. Collate and analyze data for the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on donors and programs, to enable informed decision-making and action planning by senior stakeholders.
9. Proactively contribute to discussions and highlight fundraising opportunities to senior managers for new strategies to maintain and increase funding from new and traditional donors.
10. Prepare and provide regular information to educate new and potential donors on the strategy, design, relevance and impact of WFP programs, and to advocate the work of WFP.
11. Represent WFP at international meetings at appropriate levels, in such a way that advances the government partnerships strategy and objectives, and builds support for WFP activities.
12. Prepare and provide inputs for briefing documents for senior level management meetings with donors.
13. Maintain effective relationships with representatives of government donors through appropriate channels, and coordinate donor meetings, attending where required.
14. Coordinate work with other government partnership officers to ensure the flow of information and other WFP units to align activities and ensure donor visibility and that donor conditions are met.
15. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly respond and deploy food and needed resources to affected areas at the onset of a crisis.
16. Other as required.
          Communication specific responsibilities
17. Supervise country specific communication work plans designed to maintain and enhance the visibility and reputation of WFP, as well as support fundraising activities, ensuring alignment with overall communications and WFP strategies.
18. Generate donor specific visibility content including, text, photos, videos and audio for use across a range of integrated online platforms, in order to support global and country fund-raising activities, ensuring consistency with corporate messages.
19. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to support WFP to quickly respond and deploy food and needed resources to affected areas at the onset of a crisis.
20. Perform strong leadership and show ability to create innovative ways of working to push up and move forward

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

JOB PURPOSE

To contribute to the development of new and existing partnerships with donors, advocating for WFP work, raising and mobilizing resources to support WFP CSP Activities and preparing reports for donors.
To implement also the communications plan by supporting and delivering a range of communications activities, providing research and analysis, and prioritizing effectively.

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

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

2. Liaise and interact with WFP staff and external counterparts to support aligned activities and a coherent approach to communications within WFP.
3. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to support WFP to quickly respond and deploy food and needed resources to affected areas at the onset of a crisis.
4. Perform strong leadership and show ability to create innovative ways of working to push up and move forward.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Has implemented resource mobilization work delivering specific activities as defined
• Has provided direction and instruction to junior staff members within area of expertise
• Has participated and assisted in negotiations for contributions and partnership agreements with donors and host governments, in line with internal policies and external regulations
• Has assisted in drafting resourcing analysis and collaborated with accurate and timely briefs as well as reporting to donors
• Has gained experience in utilizing specialist communications techniques to enhance functional outputs

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Burkina Faso National

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

30/09/2018

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Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries 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.