Programme Assistant (Community Mobilizer) SC-5

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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

The Armenian food sector is characterized by the low productivity of nutritionally diversified commodities, high production costs, fragmented producers, and limited post-harvest and market infrastructures. This in turn negatively impacts the Armenian population’s access to nutritionally diversified food and is resulting in worrisome levels of food insecurity and malnutrition. At the same time, inefficient post-harvest and supply chain processes entail low quality and safety standards which adversely affect the stability of supplies and which do not allow either the national or international commercialization of Armenian food products.

Under its five-year Country Strategic Plan for 2019-2024, WFP has designed a portfolio of activities headed up by the Food Value Chain Unit. This Unit supports WFP Armenia to implement smaller-scale activities that through a social protection lens target small-holder farmers to enhance their production, processing, and marketing of selected nutritionally diversified food products. This in turn supports increasing the quantity and quality of selected commodities to be more available at affordable prices within national markets, thus lifting the most vulnerable out of poverty and supporting efforts to tackle the drivers of food security in Armenia.

Given the above and taking into consideration the growing interest from international partners to invest in WFP Armenia to establish nutritionally-sensitive food value chains, the country office has identified the need to hire a Community Mobilizer to connect and engage with the beneficiary communities in Syunik province. The role will be under the management of the Head of Kapan office.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

 • Mobilize beneficiary communities/community members to action leading to increased empowerment, self-reliance, ownership as well as active engagement in the projects. • Support identifying how communities can be stimulated to unify, share ownership, take their own decisions, plan actions, and provide their solutions to reach shared objectives and goals.• Provide project management and/or general office support following established targets and WFP’s policies and procedures. • Within the area of responsibility, compile data and support analysis and preparation of reports to support operational decision-making. • Perform accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work (e.g. food security and vulnerability assessments) following corporate standards and guidelines. • Build close coordination and communication with project target groups and communities ensuring that the project interventions are implemented in an effective and efficient manner • Explain program objectives to the communities and ensure project ownership by the participating communities by convincing them about the goals and objectives of the projects. • Be a link between the organization and community or project target groups • Identify needs and challenges hindering project implementation as well as the opportunities to enhance beneficiary participation and ownership • Stimulate community members to participate in their own community's development actions. • Engage in activities that will promote increased community effectiveness, capacity, self-reliance, and empowerment. • Keep the community updated about the project-related interventions and ensure that project information is accurate and correctly interpreted by all community members • Ensure that every decision about what activities the community will undertake is the choice of the whole community, not just a few (powerful) community leaders. • Enhance programme targeting and outreach ensuring the vulnerable are heard in community decisions including women, youth, the disabled, ethnic minorities, the weak, and the marginalized. • Deliver appropriate training or awareness sessions and knowledge improvement materials to the target groups of the community. • Ensure that the community is undertaking the work and is involved in monitoring. • Organize and participate in all project field-level events (practical training on collaboration between the local government and communities, consultations with communities, mobilization of venerable people) • Collect case stories in the community that reflect the benefit of project intervention in the community. • Any other tasks assigned by the manager.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A college/bachelor’s degree in social science, socioeconomics, business administration, and other relevant fields would be an asset.

Experience: 5 years experience of working with community development projects, including contribution to the implementation of programmes, observance or assistance with policy discussions activities for an NGO, government institution, UN Agency

Knowledge & Skills: Excellent training and facilitation and community mobilization skills.Knowledge of community mobilization and livelihood requirements. Ability and willingness to work in the communities. Solid understanding of the local context (Syunik province) where the project's activities take place.

Language: Fluency in Armenian, English, and Russian languages.

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Helps teammates articulate WFP’s Strategic Objectives.
•  Be a force for positive change: Suggests potential improvements to team’s work processes to supervisor.
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Explains the impact of WFP activities in beneficiary communities to teammates.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Articulates how own unit’s responsibilities will serve WFP’s mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Trains junior teammates on new skills and capabilities.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Seeks opportunities to work with people from different backgrounds.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Serves as a peer coach for colleagues in same area of work.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Tracks progress toward goals and shares this information on a regular basis with supervisor.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Explores ways to consistently be more efficient and accurate in own areas of work and shares new methods of work with colleagues.
•  Focus on getting results: Focuses on getting results and tracks trends in completion rates for own tasks to identify opportunities for efficiency.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes responsibility for own tasks and notifies supervisor as soon as possible of potential delays in meeting deadlines or commitments.
•  Be Decisive: Independently decides what action to take when faced with critical choices in the workplace or in dangerous situations in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Suggests opportunities for partnering with other units to supervisor.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Identifies opportunities to work with colleagues and partners in the field towards common goals.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Develops an understanding of the value of WFP’s teams and external partners in fulfilling team’s goals and objectives.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Aligns own activities with supervisor’s priorities to fulfill internal and external partner needs.
   

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Has facilitated communication with technical teams (i.e. nutrition, VAM, etc.).
• Has contributed to implementation of programmes.
• Has observed or assisted with policy discussions.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Successful applicants will be included into WFP Armenia Office Experts Roster for the period of 1 year. Entry into the expert roster system does not necessarily mean that a contract with WFP is guaranteed. This will depend on forthcoming needs.  Where a request for services arises, the WFP Armenia will share specific Terms of Reference (TOR) outlining the required services, outputs for that assignment with the candidates successfully passing the competitive selection process.

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: https://career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jobId=442788&company=C0000168410P

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

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

The successful candidate will have to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 to be able to perform his/her duties. The UN strongly recommends UN personnel, and their dependents receive a COVID-19 vaccine that has been approved by WHO. 

Female applicants and individuals with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Interested candidates are invited to submit their application not later than Thursday, 23 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.