Le PAM recrute un administrateur chargé des politiques de programme (alimentation scolaire) – Freetown, Sierra Leone
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.
Organiwational context :
Job holders operate with a high degree of independence, manage more junior staff to ensure that programme and policy objectives are achieved in full. They are usually involved in a wide variety of programme and policy activities and analytical work, some of which may be of a considerable complexity. At this level job holders are expected to contribute to performance improvement.
Background and purpose of the assignment :
The school feeding in Sierra Leone begun just after the independence of the country to address different issues including schooling disruption due to conflicts and ensuing humanitarian crisis, pervasive poverty, huge numbers of children of school age out of school, gender inequity that militates against the education of girls, high dropout rate especially among girls, poor performance in public examinations, poor health and acute malnutrition, among others.
It is against this backdrop that several international development organizations such as Care International, the World Food Programme (WFP), Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Plan international, World Vision and Caritas, among others have provided school meals in the country. In 2016, the Government of Sierra Leone launched a national school feeding programme, as part of the President’s Recovery Priorities which however successfully operated for only a few school terms (trimesters) but was suspended due to funding and operational challenges. WFP is resuming its school feeding programme targeting 35,000 in two districts (Kambia and Pujehun) from October 2018 after a suspension period due to funding constraints.
The Government under the leadership of the newly elected President has made education its top priority and has launched Free Quality Education initiative since the school year 2018/2019. It has allocated some 69 billion Leones for its own school feeding intervention and has requested WFP to help with procurement and transportation of food commodities to reach 420,000 children for 6 months.
Following a joint study visit of the Government (Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Health), WFP and NGO Catholic Relief Service to Brazil Centre of Excellence, the Government has strengthened its intention to develop a national school feeding programme especially pursuing a “home grown” school feeding model linking school feeding, support for smallholder farmers, and domestic food production.
Key accountabilities (not all-inclusive) :
Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Country Director / Head of Programme, and the overall supervision of the Country Director, the incumbent is responsible for ensuring the effective and quality implementation of WFP school feeding, and ensuring WFP’s support to the Government’s scaled up school feeding programme as well as to the development of a national school feeding programme, specifically through the following duties:
- Plan, monitor and coordinate the implementation of WFP school feeding in close collaboration with in-house CO units including programme, VAM, M&E, budget and programming, Logistics, and procurement;
- Enhance WFP’s strategic and technical positioning in the Ministry of Education and lead the school feeding technical committee in close collaboration with the SF programme assistant;
- Coordinate with all the stakeholders including the Ministry of Education, CRS, and JAM, UNICEF;
- Follow up closely the implementation of the Government’s scaled-up SF programme closely monitoring its budget and expenditures as well as food pipeline;
- Conduct field monitoring and support visits;
- Coordinate the support for the Government of Sierra Leone in developing a national school feeding programme in close collaboration with CO’s relevant unit especially with the livelihood support team;
- Ensure the effective monitoring and reporting of the school feeding activities;
- Perform any other tasks as required.
Standard minimum qualifications :
Education:
Advanced University degree in International Affairs, Social Sciences, Economics, Statistics, Agronomy, or other field relevant to international development assistance, or First University Degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience in the field of education and preferably school feeding within structures of the Government, the United Nations or NGOs and/or trainings/courses.
National Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different.
4Ps core organiwational capabilities :
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.
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.
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.
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 :
| Capability Name | Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level |
| 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. |
| Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher) | 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. |
| 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. |
| Emergency Programming | Displays ability to translate understanding of programme principles in emergencies and protracted conflict situations into relevant, effective, and context specific approaches. |
| Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government | 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. |
Knowledge & Skills:
Good knowledge of food security, its analysis and monitoring; evaluation of activities, projects and programs; and humanitarian activities
Ability to:
- plan and organize work plans and ability to write in a neutral, concise and analytical manner;
- work with a minimum of supervision;
- work in synergy with colleagues and counterparts
DFesired 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.
Terms and conditions :
Interested applicants are requested to submit their application through the online link below:
ruitment: http://www1.wfp.org/careers/job-openings
Position open to Sierra Leonean nationals only
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
Tuesday, 16th July 2019