Senior Programme Associate (School Feeding) SC7 - Maputo, Mozambique

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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

In July 2022 WFP will start a new cycle of Country Strategic Plan (CSP) in Mozambique. This second-generation CSP consolidates WFP’s role as a technical advisor and positions WFP as an expert technical partner of choice in supporting national priorities and programmes in pursuit of the 2030 Agenda.
On school feeding, WFP will support the Government in the development and operation of nationally owned home-grown school feeding programmes (HGSF) for chronically vulnerable or shock-affected primary school children. WFP will continue to provide technical assistance aimed at strengthening the capacity of the Government to manage and implement the national school feeding programme (PRONAE) effectively and supporting an integrated package of gender-transformative and nutrition-sensitive interventions that contribute to the building of human capital and resilience to shocks while stimulating local economies through employment creation and links to local agriculture and local procurement.
WFP will also augment the national school feeding programme through direct management of home-grown school feeding programmes for shock-affected or chronically vulnerable populations and will support the construction of infrastructure for school meal preparation, including water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure and school gardens. 

JOB PURPOSE

In this context, WFP is looking for a Senior Programme Associate with strong writing skills to support policy dialogue and technical assistance to the Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH), partnerships and communications workstreams for its school feeding programmes. 

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Provide specialized expertise and contribute towards the development of project activities, plans and processes within the specific technical area of work ensuring alignment with wider programme policies and guidelines;
• Provide efficient coordination and specialized project management support to a range of specific and/or defined programmes to ensure that the various activities are performed within the established targets following WFP’s policies and procedures;
• Within the specific area of responsibility, prepare a variety of elaborated reports and substantial data analysis and make recommendations to supervisors, ensuring deliverables adhere to corporate standards and quality control;
• Lead and ensure accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work and consistency of information presented to stakeholders;
• Coordinate and liaise with internal counterparts on a range of complex matters to enable effective collaboration, implementation and monitoring of ongoing project activities;
• Foster relationships and support partnership-building with local partners, agencies, NGOs and government institutions to perform accurate food security analyses and to ensure efficient delivery of food assistance;
• Support the capacity building of WFP staff, cooperating partners and national government;
• Act as an escalation point for complex query resolution on all matters within the area of responsibility;
• Manage a team of support staff, providing advice, guidance and training, to ensure individual and team objectives are delivered to agreed standards and deadlines;
• 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.

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Provide expertise and support on policy dialogue, technical assistance and country capacity strengthening (CCS):
  Coordination and secretariat for the School Feeding Task Force;
  Technical Assistance to PRONAE;
  Country Capacity Strengthening strategy;
• Support partnerships and fundraising:
  Proposal preparation;
  Participation in policy meetings;;
  Inputs to key policy documents;
  Communications with partners, donors and beneficiaries;
• Lead on reports and publications;
• Lead on communications;
• Lead on knowledge management.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Secondary Education plus Bachelor degree in social sciences, public administration/policies, international relations, communication or related area.
Experience:Six years of work experience in the fields of international relations, public administration/policies, development cooperation, humanitarian assistance or related field.
Language:  Fluency in both oral and written communication in Portuguese and English.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Has 3 years experience engaging with the government or in other types of partnerships;
• Has excellent writing skills in English and Portuguese;
• Has provided input to policy discussions ;
• Has participated in implementing technical programs;
• Has implemented programmes with increased level of responsibility;
• Has experience writing project proposals, reporting or communication materials.

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
•  Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
•  Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
•  Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Position Title: Senior Programme Associate (School Feeding) SC7

Contract Type:  Service Contract 7

Contract Duration:  12 months

Duty Station:  Maputo

This position is applicable only to Mozambican Nationals.
Female and qualified applicants are highly encouraged to apply.
THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

26th May 2022

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