DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS4 August 2024-23:59-GMT+03:00 East Africa Time (Nairobi)
WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.
Are you interested in further developing your professional experience while contributing to ending global hunger? Are you passionate about helping those in need? Would you like to join a global organization investing in its people?
If so, an exciting & fulfilling career awaits you!!! Join our diverse and passionate team that works on varied and international projects directly contributing to saving & changing millions of lives around the globe.
ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a highly prestigious, reputable & world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP’s values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
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WHY JOIN WFP?
- WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
- WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
- WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
- A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
- We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
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.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF ASSIGNEMENT
In Kenya, the mission is executed through WFP Kenya’s Country Strategic Plan (CSP) of 2023-2027. The plan is aligned with, many Kenyan national frameworks including Vision 2023 and Refugee Act 2021. The latter places a strong emphasis on inclusivity and transitioning from camps to settlements for refugee management.
It also holds profound implications for refugees, host communities, and broader humanitarian and development efforts. It calls for strategic shifts in programming, which WFP embraces by, recognizing the interconnected nature of relief, nutrition, safety nets, food systems, capacity strengthening and partnerships.
In 2024 and beyond, WFP in concert with other stakeholders and targeted populations, will gradually and systematically transform existing status-based assistance to more need-based modalities which will also enhance integration of refugees and host communities.
Differentiated Assistance Approaches encompassing among others, innovative cost-efficient cash-based transfers, social protection and safety nets and resilience building will be adopted to catalyze the transition and enhance effective provision of assistance.
THE ROLE
This position will support the implementation of WFP’s food assistance programmes in Dadaab refugee hosting area while contributing to the refugee-host communities transition agenda. Responsibilities include technical work of the planning, implementation and coordination of project specific activities that require thorough understanding of Programme/project context, issues, and ability to apply a range of guidelines/practices.
This position is based in Dadaab and reports to Head of Programmes.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive)
Under the direct supervision of Head of Programmes, and overall supervision of the Head of Area Office East, the Programme Associate is responsible for the following duties:
- Provide technical support and assist in the development and implementation of various food assistance and resilience activities and processes. The food assistance activities will include among others, in-kind food distribution, cash-based transfers, school meals and nutrition interventions while resilience building actions will include, among others, productive livelihood asset creation, harvest and post-harvest handling and management, market access and financial inclusion. Implementation of these activities will support alignment with wider Programme policies and guidelines while ensuring that deadlines and targets are met.
- Provide specialized project management support to food and nutrition assistance and resilience programmes to ensure that the various activities are performed within the established targets following WFP’s policies and procedures.
- Contribute to effective discussions on refugee transition agenda including roll out of differentiated assistance approaches.
- Prepare a range of food assistance and resilience building project reports and data analysis and highlight trends/issues ensuring deliverables adhere to corporate standards and quality control.
- Support the capacity building of WFP staff, cooperating partners and stakeholders on food, nutrition assistance as well resilience programming in the within Dadaab.
- Oversee and/or review the work of camp of settlement-based staff members, providing practical advice and guidance, to contribute to delivering objectives to agreed standards and deadlines.
- Ensure that data and information on food system projects presented to the stakeholders is accurate, consistent, and aligned with WFP’s communication protocol.
- Undertake any other duty as assigned by the Head of Programme or Head of Area Office.
DELIVERABLES
- Effectively follows implementation of the project activities and outputs to ensure that deliverables are met on time.
- Provides technical support to ensure quality work.
- Communicates clearly and effectively with on the ground stakeholders and internal WFP colleagues.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Education: A university degree in Agriculture Education and Extension, Agriculture Agribusiness, Agronomy, Food Nutrition and Dietetics, Community and Rural development, Sociology, Economics, Food Security, Animal Science/ Animal Production, Range Management, or other field relevant to international development assistance.
Experience: A minimum of 6 years progressive work experience in food nutrition, food security/ agriculture/ environment and market systems development.
Knowledge and Skills
- Experience in implementing community-based food and nutrition and livelihood projects in both refugees and non-refugees set ups.
- Conversant with participatory community engagement approaches such as participatory rural appraisal, participatory learning and action, community managed disaster risk reduction.
- Deep understanding of project cycle management (PCM) including design, planning, implementation, monitoring and adaptation.
- Has a deep understanding on how to monitor technical activities related to food and nutrition assistance, market system functionality and resilience building initiatives.
- Broader understanding of cross cutting issues in humanitarian and development programming such as conflict sensitive programming, nutrition sensitive programming and gender and youth sensitive programming.
- Experience working with organizations that have medium to large food and nutrition assistance/ security, livelihoods, and agriculture portfolio and longer-term projects.
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English is required.
WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK
WFP Leadership Framework guides to the common standards of behavior that guide HOW we work together to accomplish our mission.
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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
WFP is dedicated to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our recruitment process is inclusively crafted to welcome candidates of all backgrounds, celebrating diversity and ensuring a respectful environment for all.
We aim for an accessible and fair recruitment journey. Should you need any reasonable accommodations or have accessibility concerns, please reach out to us confidentially at [email protected]. Our DEI team is here to ensure your full participation in our recruitment process.
NO FEE DISCLAIMER
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REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
- We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete, and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
- Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
- Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
- Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter
- Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
- Please contact us at [email protected] in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
- Only shortlisted candidates will be notified
All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications.
WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.