Partnerships & Reporting Associate

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Mission and objectives

The United Nations World Food Programme is a solution provider in the challenge to end hun-ger and malnutrition and focuses on reaching the most food insecure, and the malnourished all over the world. WFP’s dual mandate allows it to use a development lens in its humanitarian responses, and to align early recovery and development interventions accordingly. In Mozambique, WFP has a five-year Country Strategic Plan (2017-2021), which aims to strengthen resilience, emergency preparedness and response while continuing to address the underlying causes of hunger in the country. WFP has collaborative relationships with host governments, donor governments, NGOs, the private sector, the United Nations system, international finance institutions, interna-tional and regional organizations, academia and think tanks. WFP adopts a partnering ap-proach with the children, women and men its serves, the governments that sit on its governing bodies and the media.

Context

WFP has significantly expanded its operations over the last few years. The scale up of opera-tions was due to two major tropical cyclones and a long drought that occurred in Mozambique in 2019. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and the escalation of violence and insecurity in northern Mozambique, brought new challenges to WFP Mozambique. In response to the dis-placement crisis in the north, WFP increased the scale of its operations to respond to the in-creasing food and nutritional needs of IDPs and established the United Nations Humanitarian Air Services (UNHAS). As of March 2021, WFP has maintained the corporate Level 2 emer-gency category for Mozambique.

Task description

Under the supervision of the head of Partnerships and Donor Relations, working in coordina-tion with the other CO staff and partners, the UN Youth Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: Use data to present managers with well-researched ideas to expand support from ex-isting partners and to scope new partners, guided by programmatic assessment and context-specific analysis with the aim to enhance the impact of WFP’s work and diver-sify the resource base. Contribute to partnerships strategies, including the development of Partnership Action Plans; Draw up quality partner proposals and reports by engaging with other WFP enti-ties and external stakeholders. Support senior managers in the preparation of strategic agreements, joint strategies and MOUs in order to promote the SDGs and Zero Hunger on the national, regional and global agenda and to reach advantageous outcomes for WFP Prepare analyses and review reports, including with contributions and inputs, providing analytical capabilities, quantitative and qualitative elements required for the elaboration of documents and reports. Develop presentations, draft speaking notes and prepare meetings. Contribute with work planning for initiatives, including in the tracking and monitoring agreed-upon activities.