Date of closure: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 | Programme Policy Officer Job Vacancy Nigeria | WFP
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COMMON MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATION: First university degree plus extra years of relevant work experience, trainings, or courses; or advanced university degree in Political Science, International Development, International Relations, Communications, Sociology, Social Research Methods, or other field relevant to international development assistance.
EXPERTISE:
- eight or more years of relevant professional experience working with national development policies, plans, programs, and institutional structures; ideally with regard to nutrition and/or food security, as well as with issues of national capacity building and/or program and knowledge management;
- increased expertise in providing state governments with operational support and technical coordination;
- possesses expertise in creating multi-stakeholder collaborations and a solid understanding of corporate and governmental plans and priorities;
- has significant experience finding new opportunities and contributing to the creation of solutions with potential partners;
- has broadened engagements across sectors and regions and established long-term partnerships;
- strong interpersonal, communication, and analytical abilities; competence in conceptual analysis, planning, and training; and a track record in training and facilitation.
Vernaculars:
proficiency in the English language (level C). Intermediate proficiency in Hausa and/or Kanuri (level B).
JOB GOALS
The Nigeria Country Office is looking for a seasoned National Partnership Officer (SC10) to serve as the main point of contact between WFP and Borno State Government agencies in order to fulfill the aforementioned duties. When necessary, the incumbent will work closely with the Head of Units and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) while being directly supervised by the Head of Area Office. The incumbent will specifically be in charge of performing the following duties and responsibilities: Important Accountabilities (not exhaustive)
- Encourage, fortify, and advance cooperation between the Borno State Government and the World Food Program by means of improved coordination, communication, and capacity building. Give the government teams technical assistance and professional guidance in the areas of nutrition, food security, and other pertinent programmatic areas to improve advocacy for resource mobilization, usage, and service delivery; Determine where government institutions lack the necessary resources, then assist in providing appropriate training. Improve government officials’ comprehension of humanitarian principles and coordination procedures in order to provide a unified approach by promoting a more effective and coordinated response; Encourage the government to get more involved in and supportive of humanitarian operations. To improve cooperation, form and preserve strategic alliances with pertinent ministries, departments, and organizations; actively seek out, emphasize, and recommend a plan of action to foster a variety of topics of shared interest; arrange for collaborative field visits and the creation of briefing materials to enable communication between the Government and WFP over matters relevant to the partnerships; Create an engagement plan based on sociopolitical insights, and offer advice on how to strategically connect WFP activities with government goals and new challenges to make an effect; support the gathering of important parties through the use of current coordination structures, such as the government, donors, UN agencies, and the private sector, in order to forge alliances and create synergies on important issues of shared interest (such as capacity building, climate change, food security and nutrition, etc.); Keep an eye on the execution of cooperative projects to make sure that established rules and norms are being followed. Publish reports on a regular basis regarding achievements, difficulties, and suggestions to assist in decision-making; Take part in important gatherings involving pertinent parties, such as those discussing civil-military collaboration; any additional duties that arise.
4Ps: Fundamental Organizational Skills
Objective
- Recognize and convey the Strategic Objectives: Makes use of knowledge of WFP’s Strategic Objectives to convey connections to team goals and tasks.
- Be a force for good in the workplace by proactively identifying and creating new techniques or enhancements for oneself and the immediate team to deal with problems at work in one’s own domain.
- Make the goal motivating for our team: finds ways to better match a person’s donation with the WFP’s objective of improving local communities.
- Make our mission evident in all that we do: Assists coworkers in understanding how their specific responsibilities relate to the unit’s objectives and the larger picture of WFP’s mission.
Persons
- Seek methods to improve people’s abilities: possesses the ability to recognize, promote, and support targeted opportunities for on-the-job training to close skill gaps between present skill sets and those that WFP will require in the future.
- Establish an inclusive culture by praising the efforts of coworkers and encouraging those of colleagues from diverse cultural backgrounds to acknowledge the importance of diversity in ways beyond merely incorporating it into beneficiary programs.
- Be a coach and offer constructive criticism: Offers and requests continuous criticism on areas of strength and room for growth to help people advance their own abilities while also assisting others in identifying their own areas for progress.
- Establish a spirit of “I will” and “We will”: Establishes specific goals for oneself and others to concentrate team efforts in unclear circumstances (such as previously unheard-of problems or scenarios).
Achievement
- Promote creativity and innovation: Looks beyond the team’s traditional procedures to come up with original ways to provide food assistance and support to recipients.
- Maintains focus on attaining individual outcomes in the face of challenges like unstable or unstable settings and/or organizational barriers.
- Make promises and follow through on them: assumes personal responsibility for keeping the team’s promises and fulfilling them, as well as giving stakeholders peace of mind.
- Be Decisive: Shows the capacity to adapt team priorities and plans in order to maximize results in light of changing instructions. Also, demonstrates the ability to act fast in high-pressure situations, such emergency situations.
Collaboration
- Link and distribute amongst WFP units: Shows that they know when and how to gently bring up effect, scheduling, or planning topics with other units.
- Create solid external alliances by maintaining regular connections with important external partners through official and informal means. This will help you to better understand each partner’s distinct value offer and to forge and solidify relationships.
- Be politically nimble and flexible: Exhibits the capacity to modify the engagement strategy in light of changing partner conditions and expectations.
- Be specific about the benefits that WFP offers to collaborations. Shows the ability to communicate to both internal and external audiences the importance of the contributions made by each individual and by the immediate teams in partnerships.
PERFORMING CAPABILITIES
Food Assistance & Program Lifecycle
- Demonstrates the capacity to pinpoint the primary cause of hunger at the national or subnational level in order to create and carry out programs tailored to the local environment that incorporate a wide range of food aid instruments and intricate analysis.
Modalities of Transfer (Food, Cash, Voucher)
- demonstrates the capacity to plan, carry out, oversee, and keep an eye on successful programs that use various transfer modalities.
- Comprehensive understanding of specialized fields (e.g., nutrition, VAM, etc.)
- Exhibits the capacity to comprehend and analyze simple data within the framework of WFP-specific domains to support technical program development, execution, and oversight.
Quick Programming
- Demonstrates the capacity to use program principles in emergencies and long-term conflict situations by converting them into pertinent, efficient, and situation-specific strategies.
Strategic Policy Cooperation with the Government
- creates comprehensive suggestions to support national or subnational organizations and government-owned food and nutrition security programs by utilizing a variety of inputs (such as government advice, research, and personal experience).
OTHER DETAILS PARTICULAR TO THE JOB
IDEAL EXPERIENCES TO BEGINNING THE ROLE
Technical expertise and skills:
- a thorough awareness of Agenda 2030, SDGs 2 and 17, their corresponding targets, and how WFP’s activities may help achieve them;
- knowledge of successful knowledge transfer models, concepts, and principles pertinent to humanitarian and emergency contexts, as well as contemporary thinking and development in nation capacity building;
- Strong familiarity with the objectives of the World Food Programme, the Country Strategic Planning procedure, intervention techniques, program and project lifecycle instruments, implementation, monitoring, and assessment desirable;
- Strong familiarity with important national and regional settings and concerns is necessary;
- shown aptitude for gathering data and writing analyses, including the capacity to synthesize and analyze both quantitative and qualitative data in order to comprehend country capacities in a variety of policy and program areas, spot gaps and needs, and find WFP entry opportunities;
- strong analytical, operational, and problem-solving abilities;
- demonstrated aptitude for producing excellent written work and proficiency speaking both English and/or the local tongue;
- computer literacy ranging from average to expert
TACTICAL SKILLS:
- outstanding capacity to create and manage networks with a wide range of stakeholders
- Excellent group discussion and strategic/analytical workshop facilitation abilities
- strong interpersonal, communication, problem-solving, and analytical capabilities
- Capacity to communicate with partners and stakeholders both internally and externally in an educated and professional manner
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