Programme Policy Officer (Disaster Risk Management and Shock-Responsive Social Protection) World Food Programme

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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).

WFP works with governments and partners to extend the coverage, comprehensiveness, adequacy and quality of social protection, with the aim of ensuring that more people have access to strong national social protection systems that help them to meet their food security, nutrition and associated essential needs; and manage the risks and shocks they face.

In Uganda, WFP plays a crucial role in enhancing the country’s social protection and disaster preparedness and response, building disaster resilience that is a key driver of food and nutrition security in the country. WFP is a key partner providing technical support and capacity strengthening to national and sub-national institutions to anticipate, prepare for and respond effectively to disasters.

Specifically, WFP Uganda works with Government and partners to strengthen national capacities in anticipatory action and disaster management, namely data systems for vulnerability analysis and early warning, disaster risk financing frameworks, national preparedness and contingency planning, disaster management policy and coordination. With partners like FAO and the Red Cross, WFP has also played a key role in the development of anticipatory action frameworks, linking early warning to pre-arranged financing and pre-agreed anticipatory action plans to contain the human and economic costs of disasters in Uganda.

WFP is also one of the Government’s main partners in making national social protection systems more responsive to shocks. As the country continues to face increased shocks, the government seeks to further enhance capacities and systems for shock-responsive social protection systems, including enhancing preparedness mechanisms and leveraging social protection in emergencies. WFP’s technical assistance in this area includes: strengthening linkages between social protection and disaster risk management systems and scaling up of anticipatory actions through the social protection system; testing shock-responsive cash transfer design options at community level; development of the necessary analyses and digital systems such as the national social registry to support shock-responsive social protection; supporting establishment of a strategic framework for shock-responsive social protection.

As part of these efforts, WFP requires to enhance its staffing capacity with a position to disaster risk management, anticipatory action and shock-responsive social protection through the establishment of this new position that supports both Anticipatory Action (EPA) and Social Protection (CSI) activities.

Job Description

• Support the design and implementation of the WFP programme portfolio in disaster risk management, AA and shock responsive social protection by designing and coordinating programmatic strategy, work planning, activity designs, and budgets, ensuring alignment with WFP policies and standards and keeping abreast of latest global and regional evidence, policy and operational developments to inform activities.
• Ensure strong WFP cross functional coordination and policy coherence with the relevant units and external coordination with partners, including by representing and positioning WFP in coordination meetings and platforms, steering committees and technical working group (e.g. anticipatory action and disaster risk financing). Coordinate WFP’s engagement in the Food Security, Cash and Livelihoods Cluster.
• Lead the design and delivery of capacity strengthening in the areas of DRM and AA and shock-responsive social protection, as well as supervise analytical and technical assignments by external service providers, ensuring quality and timeliness. Provide technical review and inputs into assignments and deliverables.
• Provide project management support to programmes and projects related to social protection and shock response, ensuring compliance with WFP standards and procedures;
• Support liaison with the Government at the technical level to provide technical and strategic support to the implementation of the National Social Protection Strategy, in particular in strengthening national systems and instruments for enhancing shock-responsiveness and anticipatory action;
• Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government to enhance the capacity to design and deliver more effective DRM, AA and shock responsive social protection.
• Contribute to resource mobilization and management through budget and expenditure plans and oversight, and to donor partnership management through particularly the preparation of accurate and timely proposals, briefings and reports.
• Guide and supervise (as required) more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with technical guidance. Provide technical guidance to other WFP staff in the Country and Field Offices and NGO partners on activities at district and community level.
• Contribute to evidence generation and knowledge management to inform the development of DRM, AA and shock responsive social protection programming, policy dialogue and formulation;
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualification, Experience and Languages required:

Education:

• Advanced University degree in International Affairs, Economics, Social Sciences, Disaster Risk Management or other relevant fields.

Experience:

• At least 1 year of relevant post-graduate experience in humanitarian or development programming.
• Experience in delivering or providing technical inputs into disaster preparedness or response operations at community level
• Demonstrated experience working in close partnership with Government stakeholders in the relevant technical fields.

Languages: Fluency in English language.

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