Programme Assistant SC5 (Safety Nets & Livelihoods) - Sana'a

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.

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. 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.

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To perform specialized and/or standardized policy and programme-related processes and activities to support the effective delivery of assistance packages.  

1. Perform specialized and/or standardised processes and activities within the specific technical area of work supporting alignment with wider programme policies and guidelines.

2. Provide project management and/or general office support following established targets and WFP’s policies and procedures.  

3. Within the specific area of responsibility, compile data and support analysis and preparation of reports (e.g. food assistance needs, resource utilization, programme status, performance) in order to support operational decision-making.

4. Perform accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work (e.g. food security and vulnerability assessments) following corporate standards and guidelines.  

5. Work and exchange information with internal counterparts to support effective collaboration, implementation and monitoring of ongoing project activities.

6. Support communication and activities with local partners, agencies, NGOs and government institutions.  

7. Act as a point of contact for resolution of general operational queries requesting assistance where necessary.    

8. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly respond and deploy needed resources to affected areas at the onset of the crisis.

1. Reporting: compile data, support analysis and prepare all resilience and livelihoods reports, including internal and external Country Office reports, unit-specific reports and donor reports. Review all partner reports and ensure they meet WFP quality standards.
2. Monitoring: work closely with the M&E unit to devise a monitoring plan for resilience and livelihoods activities and be responsible for the implementation of the plan, in collaboration with Area Offices. This includes organization of baseline and endline surveys and recording and following up on issues recorded through the hotline and updating the asset database and the asset map (including photo library).
3. Knowledge management & communication: manage the unit’s knowledge by consolidating relevant contacts, FLAs and documents. Develop a communication strategy for the unit to increase visibility within the Country Office and in Yemen. Implement a communication strategy.
4. Support project implementation: support general project implementation as requested by management.
5. Field liaison: organization of field missions, regular field monitoring and liaison with partners to solve issues in implementation as requested.

6. Workshops and trainings: participate in preparation of any relevant workshop and training for WFP staff and partners.

7. Resource utilization: preparation of purchase requests (PRs) and follow of purchase orders (POs) to enable the implementation of activities as instructed by supervisor.

8. Cash transfer management: preparation of cash transfer instructions to financial service provider following WFP guidelines and templates; completion of reconciliation at each cash distribution cycle; clearance of financial service provider invoices; hourly follow up with financial service provider and cooperating partners during distribution days.

9. Beneficiary data management: update beneficiary data base following WFP guidelines and track monthly distribution per beneficiary. 

10. Output tracking: tracking and synthetization of monthly outputs including cash transfer amount, beneficiary figures and assets and trainings completed.  

11. Perform any other duties, as required by the supervisor.

• 4 or more years of relevant experience in a field related to Programme & Policy, Programme/Project support in a Humanitarian context, or Primary or secondary data collection and analysis.
• Completion of secondary school education;
• Fluency in both oral and written communication in Arabic and English.
• Either a Yemeni citizen or a foreign citizen with permanent Yemeni work permit.

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Helps teammates articulate WFP’s Strategic Objectives.
•  Be a force for positive change: Suggests potential improvements to team’s work processes to supervisor.
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Explains the impact of WFP activities in beneficiary communities to teammates.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Articulates how own unit’s responsibilities will serve WFP’s mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Trains junior teammates on new skills and capabilities.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Seeks opportunities to work with people from different backgrounds.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Serves as a peer coach for colleagues in same area of work.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Tracks progress toward goals and shares this information on a regular basis with supervisor.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Explores ways to consistently be more efficient and accurate in own areas of work and shares new methods of work with colleagues.
•  Focus on getting results: Focuses on getting results and tracks trends in completion rates for own tasks to identify opportunities for efficiency.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes responsibility for own tasks and notifies supervisor as soon as possible of potential delays in meeting deadlines or commitments.
•  Be Decisive: Independently decides what action to take when faced with critical choices in the workplace or in dangerous situations in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Suggests opportunities for partnering with other units to supervisor.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Identifies opportunities to work with colleagues and partners in the field towards common goals.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Develops an understanding of the value of WFP’s teams and external partners in fulfilling team’s goals and objectives.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Aligns own activities with supervisor’s priorities to fulfill internal and external partner needs.
   

• WFP is an equal opportunity employer.
• WFP does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
• The applicant should be a Yemeni national or having work/residency permit.
• Only candidates who are short-listed will be contacted
• Applications must be submitted online with:

1. Use English language only.
2. Indicate all your job TOR.
3. Indicate clear years of experience with each job (month/year)

• WFP staff who are still under probation period are not eligible to apply for another FT position.

• WFP staff on FT contracts must have completed one year in the current position to be eligible to apply for another FT position.

• 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.

13 Nov 2019

WFP never uses external recruitment agencies and recruitment is always is free of charge. WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. The selection of staff are made on a competitive basis and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance. Only applicants whose profiles meet the advertised job requirements will be considered and only within the announced deadline.

لا يقوم برنامج الأغذية العالمي بالاستعانة ابداً بأشخاص او بوكالات خارجية في التوظيف، علماً بان عملية التوظيف دائماً مجانية. يبحث برنامج الأغذية العالمي عن مرشحين من أعلى درجات النزاهة والكفاءة المهنية والذين يتقاسمون مبادئنا الإنسانية.

يتم اختيار الموظفين على أساس تنافسي ونحن ملتزمون بتعزيز التنوع والتوازن بين الجنسين. سيتم النظر فقط للمتقدمين الذين تفي ملفاتهم الشخصية بمتطلبات الوظيفة المعلن عنها، وفقط خلال الموعد النهائي المعلن.

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.