Programme Associate (Knowledge & Info. Mgt -Nutrition) SC6, Cox's Bazar

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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.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

The Bangladesh Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2017-2020 approved by the WFP Executive Board in its first session of 2017 became effective on 1 April 2017. It aims to contribute to four Strategic Outcomes that are aligned to the four Strategic Results of SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for Development). A total of 13 activities are planned to be implemented to achieve the contributions to the five Strategic Outcomes.

Under the Integrated Road Map (IRM) WFP has committed to a new way of working, linking not only all activities to the defined Strategic Outcomes but also linking the resources used for implementing the activities to the results achieved.

The five strategic outcomes are:

• SO1: Vulnerable groups in rural and urban settings are supported by enhanced national actions to improve their nutrition indicators in line with national targets by 2020;
• SO 2: The most vulnerable population of Cox’s Bazar, the Chittagong Hill Tracts and disaster-stricken areas have enhanced food security and nutrition;
• SO 3: Innovative approaches to enhance the resilience of food insecure households exposed to climate-related shocks and stresses are validated by 2020; and
• SO 4: The humanitarian response system for large-scale natural disasters in Bangladesh can respond with reduced cost and lead-time.
• SO 5: Humanitarian and development partners in Bangladesh have access to reliable services in the areas of supply chain and emergency telecommunications during crises.

In line with Strategic Objective 1 and Strategic Objective 2, WFP is implementation nutrition programmes in Cox’s Bazar district host community and the refugee camps. A lot of information is collected from the programme and requires documentation, analysis and generation of reports and snapshots on a regular basis. The Cooperating partners require support in data management and reporting.

JOB PURPOSE

To provide operational support to the nutrition team, with focus on knowledge and information management, documentation of evidence, monitoring and analyzing nutrition data across the Rohingya Refugee and host community.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Programme Officer; the candidate will be responsible for the following duties:

• To document and ensure appropriate use of all project results, achievements and experiences in liaison with cooperating partners and WFP relevant units (i.e. VAM, M&E, reports, donor relations and communication) 
• Ensure cooperating partners prepare quality weekly, monthly and quarterly reports in a timely manner utilizing the nutrition sector approved templates.
• Review and compile cooperating partners’ reports and give necessary constructive improvement feedback.
• Work with the Reports and donor relations unit to ensure project progress and impacts are captured, documented, analyzed and reported in a results-based and timely manner;
• Work with the M&E unit to ensure comprehensive and timely monitoring is done including ensuring accurate data is entered into COMET and that COMET data reconciles with the monthly statistics report and LESS.
• Ensure timely preparation, production, and dissemination of the project’s weekly and monthly statistic reports for internal and external use.
• Work with the communications units and nutrition programme assistants to produce case studies and success stories on nutrition services’ clients.
• Support cooperating partners to ensure a functional complaint and feedback mechanism and liaise with relevant units to gather and analyze feedback for informed decision-making.
• Provide standard trainings to cooperating partners on WFP operational practices, quality data collection, reporting and accountability to affected population.
• Process the advance, payment request of Cooperating partners and other financial related works in the corporate web-based system
• Consolidate all food requisition plan and coordinate with supply chain for timely delivery of food to the partners
• Assist in organizing meetings, workshops, mission and donor visits and responsible for compiling meeting minutes and mission or donor visit reports.
• Backup database files to a data storage device on a regular basis.
• File, in an organized manner, all hard copies of program documents.
• Regular supervision and monitoring of cooperating partners data management team to improve data collection, analyzes and reporting.
• Perform any other tasks required in the context of the overall WFP operations in Cox's Bazar

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

• The candidate should have at least two years of experience working in the field of nutrition or health programme.
• Preference will be given to candidates with operational experience in ongoing Rohingya refugee response
• Working experience with MS Office package and familiarity with mobile data collection tools is equally desired.

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

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Statistic, Social Science, Science, or any relevant subject

Experiance: Minimum 2 years of relevant experience
Language:  Excellent written and oral communications skills in English and Bang

Knowledge & Skills:

• Computer skills, knowledge of M&E, reporting and accountability is required and knowledge of WFP standard software packages like COMET is an added advantage
• Strong interpersonal skills, consistency in follow-up, ability to work with diverse teams
• Identifies early warning indicators and report them;
• Demonstrated ability to deal with multidisciplinary/multicultural team;
• Proven capacity to coordinate and communicate with Government officials and cooperating partners

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Experience and/or exposure to nutrition project assistance in emergency settings (or comparable education specialization)
• Experience with MS Office package and familiarity with mobile data collection tools is desired.
• Experience in arranging and facilitating training sessions.
• Experience in knowledge management and communications.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Type of contract: Service Contract

Level of function: SC-6

Duration of Contract: 12 months

Location: Cox's Bazar

Nationality: Bangladeshi only

Monthly Net Salary: BDT. 103,091.00

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

23 January 2019

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Female  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.