Programme Policy Officer - Home Grown School Feeding, SC8

Cambodia

Organization: WFP - World Food Programme
Location: Cambodia
Grade: Consultancy - SB-4 (SC8/SC9), Service Contract, Local Contractors Agreement
Occupational Groups:
- Legal - Broad
- Political Affairs
- Education, Learning and Training
- Nutrition
- Children's rights (health and protection)
- Project and Programme Management
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.

This post is open to Cambodian Nationality only.

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

WFP’s mission is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 as per Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2. It works to ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Through the Country Strategic Plan 2019-23 (CSP), WFP Cambodia is contributing to achieving Zero Hunger through a combination of direct implementation and systems capacity strengthening at national sub-national level. Through the CSP, WFP promotes access to nutritious diets through home grown school feeding and improving climate smart food production and transformation capacities of small holder farming communities, whilst strengthening standards and guidelines for food transformation to satisfy the increasing demand for nutritious processed and convenient foods. WFP supports national and subnational disaster and climate change risk management and to the national strategic direction and coordination on food security, nutrition and social protection through enhanced information systems, knowledge management, and public-private and south-south partnerships. WFP also responds to the acute food security and early recovery needs of vulnerable women, men, girls and boys impacted by recurrent disasters.

The CSP aims to contribute to six Strategic Outcomes that are aligned to four Strategic Results of SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for Development). These are:

Strategic Outcome 1: Vulnerable communities in Cambodia have access to nutritious, safe, diverse, convenient, affordable and preferred foods by 2025.

Strategic Outcome 2: Poor and vulnerable communities in Cambodia are more resilient to shocks and stresses in the food system by 2023.

Strategic Outcome 3: National and subnational institutions have strengthened capacities to mitigate risks and lead coordinated shock preparedness and response efforts by 2025.

Strategic Outcome 4: National and subnational institutions in Cambodia have strengthened capacities to develop, coordinate and implement well-informed, effective and equitable actions for achieving food security and nutrition targets by 2030.

Strategic Outcome 5: Development and humanitarian partners in Cambodia have access to common supply chain services throughout the year.

Strategic Outcome 6: Vulnerable people affected by crisis in Cambodia have access to nutrition-sensitive food assistance during and after the crisis

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT

WFP is seeking to recruit a dynamic and experienced National Programme Policy Officer- Home Grown School Feeding to play a key role in ensuring its HGSF programme is effective, efficient and inclusive. This position will be based in WFP’s Country Office (CO) as part of WFP’s school feeding team - whilst working across units including programme, monitoring and evaluation, nutrition, reporting and communication – as well as engaging regularly with WFP’s government and NGO partners.

Position Title: Programme Policy Officer – Home Grown School Feeding

Type of Contract: WFP Service Contract

Grade: SC-8 (equivalent to NO-A)

Duration 12 months (renewable)

Duty Station: WFP Country Office

Reporting Line: This position reports to the Programme Policy Officer – School Feeding Operations working closely across teams including field operations, monitoring and evaluation, logistics, communications and partnerships.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Play a coordination role in the implementation of the WFP’s programme to support local procurement processes as part of the home grown school feeding programme – including technical, programmatic and partnership components.
Contribute to project cycle management for key WFP projects including activity and financial management, monitoring and evaluation, and ensuring programme efficiency, assurance and effectiveness.
Ensure accurate, timely recording of data require for the project e.g. monitor and track the progress of project activities implemented by partners including review, feedback and process of its request, expenditure and clearance, as well as other cross functional activities etc.
Contribute to the development of value chain analyses for selected chains related to the key commodities procured under school feeding, including finding ways to add value to the process both in terms of income for farmers and nutrition outcomes for children their family, as well as examine opportunities for enhanced access to market information.
Provide technical and programmatic oversight and support to the development and testing of models of procurement to contribute to the development of a sustainable national home grown school feeding programme in Cambodia.
Coordinate with partners, internal and external, to develop and roll-out a self-learning tools for Food Safety and Hygiene practices for food handling from farm to school gate in connection to the existing tools and guidelines for food safety in schools.

Coordinate with partners and across WFP teams to document feedback, best practices and lesson learned in the design, adjustment and implementation (challenges/solutions) of Home grown school feeding in Cambodia.
Contribute to building evidence through studies, research and assessments to inform WFP and national home grown school feeding programmes; including supplier assessments, value chain analysis, fortification, market analysis, nutrition, food price data collection and analysis etc.
Work with partners to strengthen cross-sectoral engagement in school feeding processes - including engaging across ministries and UN/NGO partners to support food system interventions linked to nutrition in schools.
Support the development of project concept notes and/or proposals to pursue new funding opportunities including support to food supplier/ small holder farmers sustainable livelihoods.
Ensure adequate reflection and integration of relevant gender considerations in all reporting and knowledge management activities.
Other tasks as required.

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.

Education: Advanced University degree in International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition/Health, Education, Agriculture, Social Sciences or another field relevant to international development assistance.

Language: Fluency (level C) in English language and Khmer.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with increasing level of responsibility.
Demonstrated knowledge and experience of project management, including design, planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting processes and procedures gained through technical training and/or work experiences.
A solid understanding of development processes and implementing programmes related to food security, agriculture, nutrition, education and/or social protection.
Demonstrated experience in writing reports, proposals and other related documents for internal and external audiences.
Experience in training and coaching teams.
Experience with monitoring and evaluation and learning systems, tools and processes.
Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions.
Experience utilizing computers, including Microsoft Office package (e.g. Word, Excel) and other standard software packages and systems.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Create an account on the WFP Career Website: http://www1.wfp.org/careers/job-openings
Under Filter By “Country”, type “Cambodia” and select the position you want to apply to.