Programme Associate – Relief, Transition and Resilience
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.
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.