Antecedentes
Deberes y responsabilidades
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Contribute towards the development of a wide variety of projects, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider programme policies and guidance.
- Provide project management support to specific and defined programmes and projects of considerable size/complexity, ensuring a coordinated approach with wider programmes that complies with WFP standards and procedures.
- Develop and coordinate data gathering and monitoring systems ensuring that rigorous quality standards are maintained.
- Research and analyse a range of policy and operational issues to inform the development of policies, programmes and activities.
- Contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on programmes and activities that enable informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
- Liaise with internal and external counterparts to ensure effective collaboration, monitor ongoing projects and highlight potential risks to project delivery.
- Support the identification, development and management of potential partnerships to collaborative working leading to improved food assistance packages.
- Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government to prepare for and respond to food assistance needs, e.g. through providing inputs into training materials.
- Guide and supervise more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries.
- Other as required.
Results Expected:
- Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
- 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).
- Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
- Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.
- Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
- Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment
- Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
- Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances
- Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
- Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.
- Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
- Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.
- Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
- Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
- Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
- Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.
- Displays ability to identify the main hunger problem at the national or subnational level to design and implement context-specific programmes that integrate complex analysis and the full range of food assistance tools.
- Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development.
- Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring.
- Displays ability to translate understanding of programme principles in emergencies and protracted conflict situations into relevant, effective, and context specific approaches.
- Develops thorough recommendations using multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition security programmes.
Competencias
- Action Management
- Communications
- Ethics & Values
- Teamwork
- Behavioral Flexibility
- Client Orientation
- Initiative
- Interpersonal Relations
- Judgment
Habilidades y experiencia requeridas
Education:
Advanced University degree in International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences or other field relevant to international development assistance, or First University Degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.
Experience:
At least three years of postgraduate professional experience in commerce, business administration, development, or food aid support.
Desired experiences for entry into the role:
- Has deepened technical knowledge through exposure to technical teams.
- Has taken leadership of implementing programmes.
- Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions.
Language:
Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Arabic.
Others:
The applicant should be either an Iraqi national or have a valid Iraqi residence/ work permit at the time of application.
Applications should be in English