We are looking for qualified candidate to fill for the position below.
Announcement
Description
WFP seeks candidates of the highest
integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian
principles.
Selection of staff is made on a
competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting
diversity and gender balance.
This post is open to Cambodian
Nationality only
ABOUT WFP
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.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
Since 1979, WFP has provided support to the Cambodian
people to meet their emergency needs and
enhance the long-term food and nutrition security of vulnerable
households and communities. Across Cambodia, WFP has supported the building and rehabilitation of rural
infrastructure and productive assets, implemented programmes to improve
maternal and child nutrition, provided nutrition care and support for people
living in HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, supported humanitarian
coordination and assisted disaster-affected households, and promoted
children’s education and health through its school meals
programme and scholarships to children from poor
households.
The WFP Country Strategic Plan (2019-2023)
aims to complement and contribute to the
Government of Cambodia’s efforts to achieve zero hunger
through supporting school feeding programmes, strengthening resilient local
food systems, enhancing government capacities on crisis
management and disaster risk reduction, promoting digital
transformation, enhancing food security, nutrition and social
protection governance and providing supply chain services.
Announcement
Positions
Senior Programme Associate (EPR), SC7
Exec. / Management,
Social Work
- Location:Phnom Penh Capital
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary:N/A
Type of Contract: WFP Service Contract
Duration of Employment: 12 months, renewable
Grade: SC7 (Equivalent to GS-7)
Duty Station: WFP Country Office, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Reporting line: Emergency Preparedness and Response
(EPR) Officer
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT
The Senior Programme Associate
(EPR) will support WFP’s emergency preparedness and response
programmes and assist Government and inter-agency disaster
preparedness, coordination and response in Cambodia.
This role will also serve to further define WFP’s actions
within its mandate in Cambodia and implement emergency
preparedness and response activities within the Country
Strategic Plan (2019-2023), including WFP’s role as co-chair of the
Humanitarian Response Forum (HRF) and host of the HRF
Secretariat.
Duties
- The Senior Programme Associate (EPR) will be responsible for the following:
o Programme management
§ Support the development of emergency
preparedness and response programmes and action plans for WFP Cambodia within the scope of the
Country Strategic Plan (CSP), in consultation with the
Government and partners and in line with WFP
corporate policies.
§ Contribute to developing,
monitoring and reporting on work plans and budgets for the
emergency preparedness and response portfolio to track
progress against objectives and targets, identify challenges and propose
solutions.
§ Liaise across functional teams in WFP to ensure a well-coordinated and coherent
approach.
§ Undertake field missions to support the implementation and monitoring of emergency
preparedness and response programmes with a focus on ensuring and documenting the ownership,
sustainability and cost-effectiveness.
§ Contribute to knowledge
products related to emergency preparedness and response,
including situation reports, early warning information, assessment reports,
dashboards, and presentations. Synthesize key findings and present
these to internal and external audiences as required to inform
decision-making processes.
§ Support partnerships for collaborative
implementation of emergency preparedness and response
activities, including with Government, UN agencies, development and humanitarian
partners, civil society organizations, academia and the private
sector.
§ Contribute to the development of funding
proposals for emergency preparedness and response programming in
line with the Country Strategic Plan and priorities of the
Government and partners.
§ Support WFP’s internal readiness and capacities for emergency
preparedness and response, including trainings and workshops to ensure
that the Country Office and Area Offices meet corporate
standards. This includes updating/completing the Emergency Preparedness and Response
Package and Business Continuity Plan in consultation with functional
teams.
§ Contribute to corporate
planning and reporting requirements, including the Annual
Performance Plan, Annual Country Report and risk register, among
others.
§ Ensure gender, disability and accountability to affected
populations are considered throughout all areas of work.
o Technical assistance
§ Support the National Committee for Disaster
Management and line ministries in implementing the National
Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction (NAP-DRR) as an
instrument to guide and reinforce national priorities.
§ Support Government and partners to update
national and subnational contingency plans for potential
disasters.
§ Support the design,
organization and facilitation of simulation exercises for specific
hazards to test/practice contingency plans with stakeholders from the
national and subnational levels.
§ Support the Government and partners to utilize the disaster
management information system Platform for Real-time Impact and Situation
Monitoring (PRISM) for emergency preparedness and response.
§ Support the development of a
capacity strengthening plan for emergency preparedness and response,
including training to enhance national and subnational
capacities in consultation with the Government, Cambodian
Red Cross, Humanitarian Response Forum member agencies, and other
stakeholders.
§ Support efforts to formulate,
integrate and/or implement WFP’s sector-specific and cross-sectoral
areas of engagement, including the logistics preparedness working group,
food security and nutrition sector group, and humanitarian
cash working group, in the above initiatives, where
appropriate.
o Humanitarian coordination
§ Support WFP’s humanitarian coordination role as
co-chair and secretariat of the Humanitarian Response Forum
(HRF) in consultation with HRF sector lead agencies and members,
national and subnational authorities and other
stakeholders. Duties include the following: organize and facilitate
routine and ad-hoc meetings, prepare and circulate minutes of meetings,
maintain and curate the HRF website, update the 3Ws
matrix, among other tasks.
§ Contribute to the review,
update and potential redesign of the HRF architecture and processes,
including terms of reference for co-chairs, sector
leads and co-leads, and sector members; existing and
proposed sectors; information management; contingency plans and other
aspects of the HRF.
§ Participate in national and subnational
coordination forums to ensure effective collaboration for emergency
preparedness and response with the Government, Cambodian
Red Cross, Humanitarian Response Forum member agencies, and other
stakeholders, including the Joint Action Group (JAG) and Cambodia
Humanitarian Forum (CHF)/Preparedness Partnership of Cambodia (PPC).
§ Support coordination of WFP’s
sector-specific and cross-sectoral areas of engagement,
including the logistics preparedness working group, food
security and nutrition sector group, and humanitarian
cash working group.
§ Any other duties as required.
- 4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
o Purpose
§ Understand and communicate the Strategic
Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
§ Be a force for positive
change: 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).
§ Make the mission inspiring to our
team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which
individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
§ Make our mission visible in everyday
actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall
operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.
o People
§ Look for ways to strengthen
people's skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase
self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own
developmental needs.
§ Create an inclusive culture:
Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse
opinion of others, regardless of background, culture,
experience, or country assignment.
§ Be a coach & provide constructive
feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build
confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
§ Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit:
Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the
face of challenging circumstances.
o Performance
§ Encourage innovation & creative
solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new
ideas and approaches in own work.
§ Focus on getting results:
Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without
errors.
§ Make commitments and make good on commitments:
Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the
face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
§ Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about
individual activities when faced with uncertain
circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding
information or manager direction.
o Partnership
§ Connect and share across WFP units:
Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit
teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
§ Build strong external partnerships:
Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately
respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
§ Be politically agile & adaptable:
Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward
internal and external partners and stakeholders.
§ Be clear about the value WFP
brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on
analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates
WFP’s unique value as a partner.
- FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES
o Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance:
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.
o Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Vouchers):
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.
o Analysing and Using
Information/Data: Leverages insights from multiple sources of data to identify
trends, determine interrelationships among multiple issues and identify
innovative solutions that impact partnerships. Leverages data-based
narratives from across WFP engagements to add value to existing and new
partnerships. Uses and promotes technology and digital
tools to collect, collate, analyse and share data and
data-based insights.
o Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas
(i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.): Demonstrates the ability to interpret
basic data in the context of WFP specialised
fields to contribute to technical programme design,
implementation and monitoring.
o Emergency Programming: Displays ability to translate
understanding of programme principles in emergencies and protracted
conflict situations into relevant, effective, and context specific
approaches.
Requirements
- STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
o Education: Completion of secondary
school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional
area is desirable.
o Language: Fluency in both oral and written
communication in English
- DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
o Has a minimum of 6 years of
relevant experience with increasing level of responsibility.
o Prior professional experience in emergency
preparedness and response.
o Experience with organization and coordination of meetings,
trainings and workshops.
o Experience in organizing disaster
simulation exercises for national/subnational stakeholders.
o Able to build and sustain
effective collaborative relationships with Government partners and stakeholders.
o Experience with early warning
systems and disaster management information systems.
o Excellent verbal and written
communication skills; ability to communicate complex messages with stakeholders.
o Has experience utilizing computers, including
Microsoft Office package (e.g. Word, Excel).
Application
Information
Qualified female applicants are
especially encouraged to apply.
WFP is committed to an
inclusive working environment which values diversity
and has zero tolerance for discrimination,
harassment and abuse of any kind.
WFP recognizes the positive
potential of flexible working arrangements to enable
staff members the opportunity to select and alter their work
schedules to better fit personal needs and help balance
work, personal, and family responsibilities whenever operationally
possible.
WFP is committed to gender
equality and parity (50% women and 50% men) and to
diversity more generally, among employees across all grades,
functions and contract modalities.
WFP offers an attractive
salary and other benefits, including annual leave, parental leave and health
insurance for staff and eligible dependents.
WFP Work Environment: WFP is committed to ensuring
that all its workplaces are free from abuse,
offensive behavior, harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination.
WFP does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS and disability
status. WFP is also committed to promoting a work
culture in which every employee understands, and is
able to carry out, his/her personal responsibilities for maintaining the dignity of work
colleagues. WFP seeks to promote gender equality and the
empowerment of women. We believe our mission of fighting
global hunger worldwide can only be achieved if women, men,
girls and boys are offered equal opportunities in terms of access to resources and services, and participation in decision
making roles.
Interested candidates may send their
CV(s) to us by using the information mentioned in the
link below.
·
Create an account on the
WFP Career Website link.
·
Under Filter By
“Country”, type “Cambodia” and select the position you
want to apply to.
·
The vacancy will be
closed on Sunday, 24th January 2021 at 17:00
GMT+7