Programme Policy Officer (Self Resilience & Livelihood) NOA

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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.

WHY TO WORK AT WFP?

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ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

Assisting over 100 million people in around 83 countries each year, the World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with local communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. To be effective in this mandate WFP must ensure that it reaches the right people and that it manages its relationship with those individuals and their communities in a responsible, accountable, and effective manner.
Jordan hosts 654,000 registered Syrian refugees and 90,000 registered refugees from other nationalities. Since 2012, WFP assistance has significantly contributed to the collective response to the Syrian crisis by supporting around 500,000 vulnerable refugees to meet their food needs. WFP has been providing this unconditional food assistance to refugees for a decade and is now looking for more sustainable solutions to meet the needs of this population and foster their self-reliance.
Within the framework of its new Country Strategic Plan 2023-2027, WFP Jordan is embarking on a strategic journey (i) to develop sustainable solutions for refugees linking humanitarian with development programs and (ii) to advocate for an enabling environment. 
 

JOB PURPOSE

Subsequently, WFP Jordan intends to hire a Self-Reliance / Livelihood Programme Policy Officer to lead on the design, implementation, and oversight of the activities related to: 
(i)    Analysing the national labour market and building advocacy alliances aimed at creating a more efficient enabling environment. 
(ii)    Supporting Jordanians and Refugees with integrated livelihood packages aimed at enhancing employment and income-generation opportunities. 
(iii)    Jointly with UNHCR, managing an Information Management System able to assess and store refugees’ needs, skills, and opportunities. 

The selected candidate will be functioning as Activity 4 Manager (Building an interagency two-way referrals systems and an evidence-based advocacy strategy for refugees self-reliance and provide livelihood support package to targeted refugees and vulnerable Jordanians). She/he will report directly to the Strategic Outcome Manager responsible for the Refugees portfolio within Programme Unit. 
 

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Sustainability Agenda for Refugees Response
•    Proactively support the coordination with UNHCR Jordan on the Joint Sustainable Action Plan, the joint secretariat and to lead on the self-reliance workstream. 
•    Closely work with WFP staff leading on the provision of humanitarian assistance to Refugees; to ensure close linkages between humanitarian programming and the referral mechanism, advocacy and livelihood activities. 
•    Contribute to strategic development of linkages between humanitarian assistance and sustainable solutions for refugees, by creating the internal programmatic readiness as well as the engagement with external partners.
Two-Way Referral Mechanism
•    Act as the focal point for the two-way referral mechanism for WFP and represent WFP in the livelihood working group and other fora. 
•    Actively liaise with all potential and interested partners (NGOs, development actors, private sector) to utilise the referral mechanism for their recruitment of project participants/employment opportunities. 
•    Build new and nurture existing partnerships with other agencies, NGOs, development sector entities and the private sector.
•    Promote and advocate for the utilisation of the referral mechanism as well as coordinate the referrals requests jointly with UNHCR. 
Data Sharing Agreements
•    Support developing templates for data-sharing agreements including supporting the coordination with WFP regional and global experts. 
•    Support the data-sharing agreement process for WFP, ensuring relevant agreements are in place with participating 3rd parties and in coordination with UNHCR. 
Evidence-based Advocacy
•    Lead the data analytics (data mining) to identify skills and capabilities of the refugee population that can be translated into evidence-based advocacy messages to stakeholders. Extensive liaise with other relevant WFP units. 
•    Identify gaps in the data and develop solutions to address them, including but not limited to labour market analysis and data collection exercises.
•    Develop advocacy messages based on the results of the collected data, write strategic policy briefs and drive advocacy activities of WFP.
•    Coordinate and drive joint advocacy with UNHCR and other actors
Livelihood support package to targeted refugees and vulnerable Jordanians
•    Survey programmatic landscape (among others technical and vocational training, skill-building, financial literacy, job-matching, mentorship, incubation and seed-money support and access to user-centred financial services) of livelihood, financial inclusion, start-up and training landscape in Jordan to understand gaps and opportunities for WFP to partner with other organisations.
•    Develop an integrated livelihood support package for urban refugees and vulnerable Jordanians with a specific focus on women and youth that addresses identified gaps, to increase their access to employment and income-generation opportunities. 
•    Set up and lead partnerships for this programme.
•    Lead and conduct programme implementation and tracking, including developing the monitoring and evaluation framework under close coordination with WFP Units (M&E, Field Office,…)
•    Other relevant activities as required
 

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Advanced University degree in Economics, International Affairs,  Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences or other fields relevant to international development assistance, or First university degree with at least 3 years of professional (managerial) work experience.

Experience: At least one (1) year of postgraduate professional experience; 

•    Experience in livelihood or development projects, start-ups, or relevant private sector experience is a plus. 
•    Demonstrated project work experience in long-term strategies (formulation and operationalization) and change management.  
•    Work experience and technical knowledge in Livelihood Programming/ Job placement activities/ development programs required, or equivalent strong project management skills in the private sector.
•    Extensive knowledge of the livelihood sector, development actors, and start-up scene in Jordan is highly desired.
•    Experience in coordination with external partners and stakeholders.
•    Previous UN, NGO or donor agency experience a plus.
•    Management experience a plus.


Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Arabic

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

•    Experience in leading long-term / strategic projects. Strong ability to think strategically.
•    Experience in analysis of complex problems, synthesizing different options into decision-ready documents.
•    Ability to advance project implementation under short timelines, under pressure, and managing multiple priorities simultaneously with minimum supervision.
•    Demonstrated experience in liaising, collaborating, and coordinating with external and internal stakeholders
•    Initiative and proactiveness, creativity, “can-do” attitude, and flexibility with excellent interpersonal skills and team spirit.
•    Appetite for innovation and thinking out of the box
•    Experience in change management, including initiating and managing change management activities preferred.
•    Experience with accountability mechanisms and feeding feedback from beneficiaries, and partners into improving program quality a plus.
•    Positive energy to help driving WFP programmes
 

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

EXPECTED BENEFITS

WFP Offers a diverse range of benefits and entitlements including annual, sick and parental leaves, allowance for the eligible spouse and children and UN Joint pension Funds. In addition to a life Changing experience that save and change lives. 

WFP is following the UN salary scale in Jordan; the expected net pensionable salary ranges between 29,738 and 38,823 JOD per year; depending on the years of managerial experience in supply chain exceeding the minimum requirements.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Applications must be submitted online through WFP e-Recruitment System

• Internal WFP staff can access the VA through the internal WFP CAREER page via the link: http://newgo.wfp.org/services/e-recruitment
• External applicants are kindly requested to follow the link: http://www1.wfp.org/careers/job-openings

Make sure that you answer all mandatory questions accurately and to attach your updated CV in English.

• Join WFP to be part of saving lives and changing lives:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4rFCbNDXiw&feature=youtu.behttp://ar.wfp.org/videos/recruitment-video-ar

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

1 February 2023

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WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment

WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.