Senior Programme Associate (FT,G7) Resilience Building

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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 World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading Humanitarian Organization fighting hunger and changing lives worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies, and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. In Egypt, WFP is committed to supporting the Government’s priorities towards the achievement of the SDGs. WFP’s current five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP) is designed in a way to fully support Egypt’s vision 2030 and ensure food and nutrition security for all Egyptians, as enshrined in both the Constitution and the country’s commitment to the Global Sustainable Development Agenda.
The CSP focuses on five interrelated thematic areas:
• Support and complement the Government’s social protection programs;
• Support the refugees and migrants through food assistance and resilience building;
• Improve the nutritional status of Egyptians with a focus on Pregnant and Lactating Women and infants under two years of age;
• Support resilience of vulnerable smallholder farmers and Bedouin communities in Upper Egypt and frontier Governorates; and
• Provide capacity strengthening to the Government and support South-South cooperation between Egypt and neighboring countries.
WFP Egypt is currently designing a follow-on CSP for 2023-2028 and is implementing a number of resilience building climate-smart interventions in more than 140 villages. These programmes are being jointly designed and managed by WFP and the Government of Egypt and are planned to be scaled up within the Haya Kareema Presidential Initiative.
The Incumbent would therefore be expected to provide support to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs especially as they pertain to integrated, climate-adaptative agriculture and the resilience building of rural and Bedouin communities in Egypt

JOB PURPOSE

To provide effective coordination and specialized support to a full range of policy and programme activities related to rural development, climate change and resilience building that effectively meet food assistance.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Completion of University Degree in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Civil Engineering (irrigation), Environmental Sciences or any related sciences. Post graduate studies in the related functional area is desirable.
• Experience: seven or more years of progressively responsible work experience in the agricultural development, climate change, irrigation, food systems field.
• Fluency: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Arabic

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Conduct studies and gather information on aspects of resilience building and sustainable development for design of projects and drafting of proposals.
• Provide project management support to ensure compliance with work plans, donor requirements, programme policies and guidelines, and WFP and national standards.
• Ensure effective financial management and cash flow; monitoring and following up on the various activities ofongoing projects portfolio.
• Lead and ensure accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work (e.g. assistance programmes, food security and vulnerability assessments) and consistency of information presented to stakeholders

ADDITIONAL KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Compile and maintain accurate data in internal information and reporting systems as well as, support analysis and development of reports to the donors and counterparts.
• Maintain and update project working files (both paper and electronic) for dissemination to different target audience.
• Coordinate and exchange information with internal counterparts to support implementation and monitoring of ongoing activities.
• Contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on programmes and activities that enable timely corporate reporting, informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
• Support in producing technical briefs and contributing to documents as requested (annual performance plan, business management budget, activities review reports, concept notes and project documents, etc.).

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Be part of a core team responsible for integrated rural development and climate-adaptive activities in the Country Office.
• Support in the coordination of programme with government partners and in the management of Non-Governmental Organizations and community development associations in rural areas.
• Identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food systems, agricultural or irrigation programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design.
• Contribute to reports on climate change impacts and mitigation measures of different WFP programmes.
• Liaise with internal counterparts to ensure effective collaboration, monitor ongoing projects.
• Follow-up on work of consultants recruited to support the activities. This includes completion of necessary paperwork with concerned units within WFP for their contracts, separation and payments as well as follow-up on their outputs to ensure timely and quality deliverables.

ADDITIONAL SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Support the identification, development and management of potential partnerships to collaborative working leading to improved food assistance packages.
• Support the capacity building of junior staff, partners and national government to prepare for and respond to assistance needs, e.g. through project management support of learning initiatives.
• Provide guidance to support staff, acting as a point of referral and assisting them with analysis and queries.
• Others as required.
• Oversee a team of support or field staff, providing advice, guidance and training, to ensure individual and team objectives are delivered to agreed standards and deadlines.
• Support the capacity building of partners and national government to prepare for and implement resilience building programmes and projects as needed.

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

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Has facilitated communication with other technical teams and functional units such as finance, M&E or programme teams, etc.
• Has contributed to implementation of development programmes in rural development/agriculture/irrigation with increased level of responsibility.
• Has observed or assisted with policy discussions.
• Excellent knowledge of standard office software packages, e.g. Microsoft word, excel, MS project.

Terms and Conditions

Fixed-term Appointment:  an appointment for a continuous period of one year and shall have a specified expiration date and be subject to a probationary period of one year, which may be extended to 18 months and fund availabilty.

Annual Net Pay Salary:  as per the established  UN salary scale in Egypt

Staff Assessment A staff assessment, comparable to national income tax, shall be applied to the gross salaries and such other payments as are computed on the basis of salary, The assessment shall be calculated at rates set forth in the FAO Administrative Manual.

Dependency allowances: applicable to children up to 18 years of age, or up to 21 years in full-time school attendance

United Nations Joint pension fund a deduction  of 7.9% from the pensionable remuneration will be made from the net salary, the WFP will contribute of 15.8%

Medical Insurance: mandatory for the staff member and can be extended to dependents  in a cost-sharing

Annual leave: 2.5 days a month and Sick leave: 2 days per month

Official Holiday: 10 days as officially established for each duty station

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Deadline for submitting the online application is on the 30th of March 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.