UN Jobs in Nairobi, Kenya - World Food Programme

Programme

Policy Officer (Social Protection), NOD
 

Grade: Fixed Term (NOD level)
 

Duty

Station: WFP

Regional Bureau for East & Central Africa, Nairobi
 

Salary: As per UN Salary Scales
 

This

vacancy is open to both male and female candidates. 

Qualified

female applicants are encouraged to apply.
 

The

World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting

hunger worldwide. 

We are

seeking to fill the position of Programme Policy Officer (Social Protection) in

support of the Regional Bureau office, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Strengthening social protection and safety-net mechanisms is a key priority for

WFP in East and Central Africa. 

Several

governments within the RBN region are seeking to establish and scale up their

own social safety-net mechanisms to help address long standing, chronic

vulnerability and prevent and mitigate the impact of shocks. 

WFP

recognises that a more strategic engagement in Social Protection is critical to

effectively contribute to the 2030 agenda and achieve SDG2, and a Safety Nets

and Social Protection unit was recently established in HQ to guide and position

WFP corporately. 

In the

RBN region, WFP also recognizes the need to collaborate more strategically with

humanitarian and development partners in order to better support governments

establish and strengthen their own social protection systems. 

RBN

also recognises the opportunity to better capture regional practices, to

contribute to and leverage global organizational knowledge, and to more

effectively support country offices.

Accountabilities: Under

the overall supervision of the Senior Regional Programme Advisor, the Programme

Policy Officer (Social Protection) will be responsible for the following

duties:

• Support
  
  WFP COs’ strategic engagement with host governments in the region to
  
  design, formulate and/or implement scalable and flexible social protection
  
  and safety net programmes that contribute to food and nutrition security;


• Provide
  
  technical advice or mobilise technical expertise to support country
  
  offices promote policy coherence and synergies between food and nutrition
  
  security programmes and national social protection/poverty reduction frameworks;


• Assist
  
  COs to conduct policy review to determine WFP’s entry point in social
  
  protection policy dialogue with host Governments;


• Coordinate
  
  activities with the SNSP unit in HQ and actively contribute to shaping the
  
  corporate social protection agenda from the RBN perspective;


• Lead
  
  the development of effective partnerships at the regional level with key
  
  partners, such as the World Bank, ILO, UNICEF, FAO and IGAD, to enhance
  
  WFP’s ability to effectively contribute to strengthening the social
  
  protection systems of governments in the region;


• Assist
  
  countries to upgrade the quality of existing safety nets, including school
  
  feeding, public works programmes, resilience building and other
  
  activities; and help refine the institutional links between safety nets and
  
  emergency-related mechanisms, including through risk sensitive or shock
  
  responsive programmes;


• Explore
  
  the use of innovative approaches for improved efficiency and effectiveness
  
  such as the single registry for targeting, the expansion of cash-based delivery
  
  platforms and modelling safety nets in pastoralist settings;


• Promote
  
  and advocate with other UN agencies the inclusion of improved nutrition as
  
  an explicit objective of social protection programmes and explore
  
  nutrition-sensitive interventions that contribute to prevent all forms of
  
  malnutrition;


• Ensure
  
  gender analysis are properly integrated in needs assessments and taken
  
  into consideration during the design and implementation of social
  
  protection programmes;


• Contribute
  
  to evaluating and generating evidence on the potential and interest to
  
  invest in safety-net mechanisms also during emergencies and in more
  
  fragile contexts;


• Map
  
  current best practices and successful experiences with urban safety-nets
  
  across the region that can be scalable and applicable to other countries;


• Manage,
  
  oversee or contribute to operational research and evidence building to
  
  influence policy dialogue; manage or oversee preparation and dissemination
  
  of timely analytical and critical reports, publications, and a variety of
  
  information products or proposals for internal or external use;


• In
  
  close consultation with the regional Knowledge Management officer and
  
  other programme teams, lead the development of a learning agenda in the
  
  region on social protection.


• Closely
  
  coordinate with other programme and functional areas to ensure that a
  
  social protection and system strengthening focus is applied in different
  
  areas of WFP’s work and that relevant knowledge is captured and informs
  
  WFP’s work in the region;


• Engage
  
  in high level regional consultations and technical discussions with UN
  
  agencies, donors, academia and other relevant actors in matters related to
  
  social protection and resilience;


• Develop
  
  donors proposals and contribute to resource mobilisation efforts for
  
  social protection activities;


• Supervise
  
  other national and international programme staff; provide training and
  
  technical guidance in their work;


• Perform
  
  other related duties as required.

• WFP
  
  in the region is well positioned to actively support governments to strengthen
  
  their national social protection systems, in support of SDG2 targets, and
  
  as a partner of choice for hunger and nutrition sensitive social
  
  protection policies, capacity building and operational support.


• Social
  
  Protection evidence, knowledge and best practice is shared with relevant
  
  programme officers and senior staff across the region to improve the
  
  quality of WFP’s direct assistance and technical support.


• The
  
  safety nets that WFP is implementing directly in the region are achieving
  
  enhanced outcomes for beneficiaries, and evidence and learning from these
  
  experiences is captured and shared internally and externally.


• Well
  
  prepared, analytic work.


• Well
  
  managed projects, programmes and/or operations.

Qualifications and Experience
 

Education: Advanced University

degree in International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition / Health, 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.
 

• At
  
  least eight years of postgraduate professional experience with increasing
  
  responsibilities in social protection in a bilateral, multilateral or
  
  nongovernmental organization. 


• Very
  
  good knowledge of effective and sustainable practices and principles
  
  related government social protection systems in a variety of
  
  contexts. 


• Proven
  
  capacity to conduct policy analysis and to successfully engage in policy
  
  dialogue. 


• Demonstrated
  
  effectiveness in bringing global strategies into the regional/country
  
  context. 


• Proven
  
  experience in building synergies among units, projects and regions.

• Good
  
  analytical skills, resourcefulness, initiative, maturity of judgement,
  
  tact, negotiating skills;


• Ability
  
  to identify the main hunger problem at the national or subnational level
  
  to design and implement context-specific programmes that strengthen
  
  government systems and integrate complex analysis and the full range of
  
  food assistance tools.


• Demonstrates
  
  the ability to incorporate technical information into policy and strategy
  
  formulation and into programme design and implementation, and to
  
  appropriately communicate it internally and externally.


• Demonstrated
  
  ability to engage key stakeholders in policy dialogue to strengthen national
  
  government social protection systems.


• Ability
  
  to translate policy and programme principles into relevant, effective, and
  
  context specific approaches, including in emergencies and protracted
  
  conflict situations.


• Experience
  
  leading teams in strategic discussions;


• Experience
  
  working in a multi-donor environment;


• Ability
  
  to work in a team and establish effective working relations with persons
  
  of different national and cultural backgrounds. Ability to deal patiently
  
  and tactfully with people of different national and cultural backgrounds;


• High
  
  capacity for organization and coordination, as well as an ability to work
  
  with a high degree of independence in a team environment;


• Experience
  
  in managing diverse and sometimes competing interests and perspectives to arrive
  
  at a durable consensus;


• Fluent
  
  English, written and oral; excellent public speaking and presentation
  
  skills;


• Excellent
  
  computer skills in MS Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint;


• A
  
  willingness to travel frequently, often to remote areas; ability to cope
  
  with situations which may threaten health or safety; flexibility in
  
  accepting work assignments outside normal desk description.

Language: Fluency

(level C) in English language.
 

• Training
  
  and/or experience using MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and outlook.

Application procedures:
 

Interested

and qualified candidates are requested to submit online applications ONLY,

according to the following procedures:

NOTE: You must complete

Step 2 in order for your application to be considered for this vacancy.

Vacancy

Announcement No:RBN/005/2016
 

Knowledge

Management Officer
 

Grade: Service Contract, SC9

(NOB equivalent)
 

Duty

Station: WFP

Regional Bureau for East & Central Africa, Nairobi
 

Salary: As per UN Service

Contract Salary Bands

This vacancy is open to both male and female candidates.

Qualified

female applicants are encouraged to apply.
 

The

World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting

hunger worldwide. 

We are

seeking to fill the position of Knowledge Management Officer in support of the

Regional Bureau office, based in Nairobi, Kenya. 

The

Regional Bureau provides strategic guidance, policy/technical support and

direction to WFP operations and activities in nine countries: Burundi,

Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda.
 

Accountabilities: Under the direct

supervision of the Regional Programme Officer and the overall guidance of the

Regional Director and the Senior Regional Programme Advisor, the Knowledge

Management Officer will be responsible for the following duties:

• Develop
  
  or coordinate the development of internal products, for improved programme
  
  design and implementation, and external products, to demonstrate the role
  
  of WFP in addressing food insecurity and nutrition.


• Coordinate
  
  the annual Standard Project Reporting (SPR) process, in collaboration with
  
  HQ teams and Country Offices in the region.


• Coordination
  
  with country offices and with other regional bureau teams, and also
  
  strengthen country offices’ capacity to make better use of information;


• Provide
  
  crosscutting analysis related to WFP’s work in the RBN region,
  
  particularly with regard to high profile emergency operations and
  
  innovative project activities, in collaboration with RBN management;


• Coordinate
  
  the annual RBN Standard Project Reporting (SPR) process to ensure
  
  high-quality, timely reporting to donors on results achieved and resources
  
  used;


• Collaborate
  
  with technical units in RBN Regional Bureau and Country Offices such as
  
  M&E, Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping (VAM), programme and supply
  
  chain to develop an evidence base for WFP impact in the region;


• Based
  
  on documented evidence, develop information and knowledge products in
  
  collaboration with partnerships, public information and reports that
  
  demonstrate the role of WFP in addressing food insecurity and nutrition,
  
  and in mainstreaming gender, accountability to affected populations and
  
  protection, across RBN Country Offices;


• Support
  
  Country Offices in the region organise, package, utilise and disseminate
  
  relevant information to inform programme design and implementation and for
  
  external audiences;


• Collect
  
  lessons learned, best practices and proven innovations in programme
  
  design, implementation, monitoring and reporting as well as other WFP
  
  business processes from Country Offices, Regional Bureaux and
  
  Headquarters, and disseminate them within the region;


• Monitor,
  
  collate and disseminate information from leading think tanks, academic
  
  institutions, regional organizations, such as IGAD and the AU, as well as
  
  International Organizations, including the UN Secretariat, OCHA end the
  
  World Bank;


• Monitor
  
  and review regular sources of information and data from Country Offices
  
  required for the regular updating of information and knowledge products,
  
  e.g., M&E reports, VAM assessments, evaluations, national food
  
  statistics reports, and cluster data;


• Support
  
  with audit preparations for CO/RB; and


• Perform
  
  other related duties, as required.

• Well
  
  written and well-presented analytical information products;


• Stronger
  
  capacity of the regional bureau and of country offices to incorporate
  
  existing information into programme design and implementation;


• Quality
  
  and timely submission to HQ of the annual Standard Project Reports;


• Lessons
  
  learned and recent advances in relevant areas collected and disseminated
  
  in an user friendly format;


• Streamlined
  
  information management processes in the regional bureau;


• Well-managed
  
  projects.

Qualifications and Experience
 

Education: Advanced University degree

with course work in communication, economics, international relations,

development, government, or other related fields, or First University degree

with additional years of related work experience and/or training / courses.
 

Experience: At three years of

progressively responsible professional experience in knowledge management or

related field. Experience working in the international development /

humanitarian sector an advantage.

• Excellent
  
  written and verbal communication skills in English;


• Good
  
  analytical skills, resourcefulness, initiative, maturity of judgement,
  
  tact;


• Proven
  
  ability to coordinate projects across units;


• Capacity
  
  to produce high quality products when working under pressure and with
  
  competing deadlines;


• Ability
  
  to adjust own communication style to different internal and external
  
  audiences and purposes;


• Ability
  
  to work in a team and establish effective working relations with persons
  
  of different national and cultural backgrounds;


• High
  
  capacity for organization and coordination, as well as an ability to work
  
  with a high degree of independence in a team environment;


• A
  
  willingness to travel to remote areas; ability to cope with situations
  
  which may threaten health or safety; flexibility in accepting work
  
  assignments outside normal desk description.

Language: Fluency

(level C) in English language.

• Training
  
  and/or experience using MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and outlook.


• Knowledge
  
  of graphic design and multimedia communication tools an advantage.


• Specialized
  
  technical background in quantitative analysis, such as statistics and
  
  econometrics an advantage.


• Fluency
  
  in French.

Application procedures:
 

Interested

and qualified candidates are requested to submit online applications ONLY,

according to the following procedures:

NOTE: You must complete Step 2 in order for your application to be considered

for this vacancy.

Deadline for applications: 08 May 2016. 

Only

short-listed candidates will be contacted.

If you have any queries relating to this VA please send them to:

wfp.rbnhr@wfp.org

WFP does not charge fees at any stage during the recruitment process.

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the

basis of HIV/AIDS status.