Communication and Advocacy Support Officer

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Mission and objectives

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. As the international community has committed to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030, one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. Food and food-related assistance lie at the heart of the struggle to break the cycle of hunger and poverty. For its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict, WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. In 2020, WFP assisted 115.5 million people – the largest number since 2012 – in 84 countries. On any given day, WFP has 5,600 trucks, 30 ships and nearly 100 planes on the move, delivering food and other assistance to those in most need. These numbers lie at the roots of WFP’s unparalleled reputation as an emergency responder, one that gets the job done quickly at scale in the most difficult environments. WFP’s efforts focus on emergency assistance, relief and rehabilitation, development aid and special operations. Two-thirds of our work is in conflict-affected countries where people are three times more likely to be undernourished than those living in countries without conflict.

Context

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. As the international community has committed to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030, one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. Food and food-related assistance lie at the heart of the struggle to break the cycle of hunger and poverty. For its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict, WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. WFP has been providing technical and financial support to the school feeding programme in Tajikistan since 1999, reaching over 440,000 students in about half of the nation’s schools in the past academic year through distributions of food commodities, including fortified wheat flour, vegetable oil, pulses, and salt. This support is supplemented by contributions from parent-teacher associations and local governments who collectively provide other food products, energy sources for cooking, cooks’ wages and other expenses related to the provision of in-school meals for primary grade schoolchildren

Task description

Under the direct supervision of the WFP Tajikistan Communications Officer, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: • Support advocacy efforts related to promoting the school feeding programme at both the country and field office levels including, but not limited to, development of visibility and communication approaches via case studies, success stories, events, and other materials. • Support the updating of the communications work plan to ensure synchronization with the WFP corporate communications strategy and to enhance the visibility of the WFP school feeding programme in Tajikistan. • Assist in planning, managing and evaluating communications campaigns designed to favourably impact the views of the public, opinion leaders, and other stakeholders regarding the school feeding programme. • Perform communications research and analysis to ensure timely preparation and distribution of information products to target audience(s). • Maintain a contact list of journalists and media outlets and support the flow of appropriate communications while ensuring reputational risks are identified and managed. • Draft correspondence and other materials as requested; respond to written and verbal inquiries, as directed related to the school feeding programme. • Support the implementation of WFP's social media plan by developing content, utilising platforms and networks, and engaging stakeholders to enhance coverage of WFP's activities. • Generate donor specific visibility content including, text, photos, videos, and audio for use across a range of integrated online platforms, ensuring consistency with corporate messages. • Work in close collaboration with internal and external counterparts to support aligned activities and a coherent approach to communications within WFP. Research and Monitoring In close collaboration with the WFP Tajikistan programme unit, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: • Support the monitoring of school feeding activities, including updating existing data collection tools and providing technical analysis and data interpretation for results-oriented reports development and other materials. • Provide inputs to the production of regular monitoring reports as relates to their external circulation and/or formulation into advocacy materials; • Support the further conceptualization of the nationalization of the school feeding programming as relates to best practices and lessons learned from other global initiatives. • Conduct research and develop analytical reports and papers as related to the most recent global and national policies and innovating technologies and approaches affecting school feeding.