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Programme Policy Officer (Enterprise Risk Management & AFAC) / NOA - Sana'a

Sanaa

  • Organization: WFP - World Food Programme
  • Location: Sanaa
  • Grade: Junior level - NO-A, National Professional Officer - Locally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Political Affairs
    • Legal - Broad
    • Accounting (Audit, Controlling)
    • Criminology, Extremism, Police Affairs and Anti-Corruption
    • Sustainable trade and development
    • Internal audit, Investigation and Inspection
    • Disaster Management (Preparedness, Resilience, Response and Recovery)
    • Project and Programme Management
    • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Closing Date: Closed

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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
  • 1 or more years of relevant work experience with an advanced educational degree in a relevant area of expertise OR 3 or more years of relevent experience with a first university degree with relevant years of experience 

(Administrative/Assistant/Secretariat work experience is not considered, except for years holding Associate positions or above (UN equivalent grade G-6 or above), in which case each year is counted at 50%).

  • ·         Fluency in English (level C written and spoken).
  • ·         Fluency in Arabic (level C written and spoken).
  • ·         Yemeni citizenship.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

Assisting 91.4 million people in around 83 countries each year, the World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving Lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.

In 2019, WFP is scaling up its Yemen operations aiming to provide 12 million people with monthly food assistance through direct food distributions, vouchers or cash and nutritional support to nearly 3 million pregnant and nursing women and children under 5.

JOB PURPOSE

To provide support to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
  1. Research and analyse policy and operational issues to support senior colleagues in the development of policies, programmes and activities.
  2. 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.
  3. Liaise with internal counterparts to ensure effective collaboration, monitor ongoing projects.
  4. Engagement with Risk Leads/risk Owners as well as YECO Management through a quarterly consolidation, analysis and presentation of risks, and the implementation status of the ERM with all its various components in the YECO; as well as raise concerns with Management regarding technical Units who are not moving towards risk -minded approach to decision making and execution at functional level
  5. Review the Approved YECO Risks Appetite Statement (RSA) against the Risk Heat Map, and the Risk Matrix in order to draw the RCA and Managements attention to scenarios where risk levels have exceeded the thresholds - (both the Risk Appetite; and the Tolerance Level-- Coordinate discussions with department managements and establish a follow up mechanism to notify Technical Units once RAS is reached;
  6. In coordination with the RCA, YECO Senior Management (CD, DCDs, and Heads of Unit), RBC and RMR establish a Risk Management/AFAC integration Model to support an informed enforcement of AFAC Policy as well as an interface between AFAC and Risk Management;
  7. Work with the Risks & Compliance Colleagues in coordination with Partnership and Programme to undertake Targeted Spot checks on Partrners - Finance, Programme/Operations and Expenditure Reports Vs. Outputs - Undertake a risk Review of CPs and develop and/or refine the Partners Risks Matrix- Also consider the  option to review and rank YECO technical units in terms of risks and link this to the risk heat map; Share and/or make a presentation of the final outcome with the YECO Management indicating measures needed to mitigate the impact
  8. Any other assigned task 
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
  • Relevant work experience in the field of auditing, accounting or Risk and Internal Control and oversight work with reputable organisations.
  • Work experience with Humanitarian Agencies, INGOs, UN, Private Sector Firms and Audit and Accounting Firms; able to link donor funding to risk and internal controls.
  • Internal control or risk management related experience.
  • Has implemented programmes and provided input into designing operations.
    • Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions.
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 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, 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 capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes.
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.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
  1. The applicant should be a Yemeni national
  2. Only candidates who are short-listed will be contacted
  3. Applications must be submitted online with:
  • Use English language only
  • Indicate all your job TOR
  • indicate clear years of experience with each job (Month/Year)
  1. WFP staff who are still under probation period are not eligible to apply for another FT position.
  2. WFP staff on FT contracts must have completed one year in the current position to be eligible to apply for another FT position.
  3. By submitting your application, you have read the Terms of Reference for this position and agree that any false, wrong or incomplete information might lead to your disqualification in this recruitment process.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

21 August 2019, @11:59 p.m. (Yemen time)

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Female 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.

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