UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP)
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. More than half the population of Afghanistan – a record 22.8 million people – will face acute food insecurity in 2022. The combined effects of drought, conflict, COVID-19, and the economic crisis, have severely affected lives, World Food Programme livelihoods, and people’s access to food. The team of 600 staff, 550 of which are Afghan nationals are working tireless to bring emergency food and nutrition assistance to the millions of people suffering across the country. The assistance provided by WFP includes emergency food assistance, school meals, nutrition programmes and important self-reliance and resilience programmes. The packet of support can include food, cash, or vouchers. In conflict situations, we bring relief to exhausted populations and use food assistance to build pathways to peace and stability – work for which WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. in addition.
Job Summary
- Support WFP nutrition efforts at regional and provincial levels to contribute to meeting the nutritional needs of beneficiaries within Afghanistan. This will be achieved through effective and timely facilitation of the management of Field Level Agreements (FLAs) and amendments as may be necessary; enhance quality of malnutrition prevention and treatment services delivery, including proper supervision, monitoring, coordination, and capacity building of internal WFP field offices and relevant cooperating partners, well-organized, complete and accurate reports, records and/or data; and effective nutrition unit business process performance.
Key responsibilities of WFP Jobs in Herat, (Programme Policy Officer):
- Provide technical and programmatic support in designing and implementation of nutrition activities at field office level to ensure the targets are achieved in alignment with relevant WFP and Government policies/strategies/guidelines/procedures;
- Actively contribute and take lead for development of nutrition the component of implementation plan (IP) for the relevant field office (in consultation with CO-nutrition).
- In consultation with Head of field office and CO nutrition unit, develop comprehensive a nutrition work plan as well as corresponding monitoring ,supervision and CP performance evaluation plan for the field office in line with the CO Nutrition programme quality improvement plan.
- Take responsibility for incorporating and mainstreaming nutrition sensitive components in all WFP activities as appropriate.
- Identify the evolving nutrition needs at field level based using evidence from routine monitoring and assessment findings and ensure these are used to inform programming through the Head of Field Office and CO nutrition.
- Ensure that all nutrition project proposals submitted to the Field Office Project Technical Review Committee (PTRC) have gone through an effective and efficient review process in consultation with CO nutrition unit and timely submitted for CO-PAC.
- Support the preparation of projects and FLAs/amendments involving nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive activities ensuring all key actions the related to programme quality are included, monitored and integrated into the WFP corporate reporting systems in timely manner.
- Contribute to the timely provision of inputs to nutrition unit in CO for donor proposal development in coordination with the field team and relevant CPs.
- Support the management of strategic partnership collaborations for Nutrition at field level to ensure effective implementation of joint programs; This includes collaborations with UN agencies, national & international NGOs, government key counterparts and communities;
- Support supply chain management of nutrition commodities, to monitor stock levels with the aim of minimizing activity interruptions related to avoidable stockouts at FDP level.
- Conduct review and coordination meetings with nutrition cooperating partners to identify implementation issues and opportunities for programme performance improvement.
- Represent WFP in the sub-national cluster coordination platform and any other relevant platform to keep provincial authorities and partners updated about WFP support while also obtaining information to guide WFP engagement with the various stakeholders.
- Liaise internally with relevant units to support effective collaboration, implementation and monitoring of nutrition activities.
- Take lead in strengthening the capacity of relevant CP staff and PAT monitors, to implement and monitor nutrition activities in line with the relevant protocols and quality improvement plan.
- Ensure timely consolidation/submission of periodic or ad-hoc reports on the progress of nutrition activities, with timely and accurate entry of relevant reports into National Nutrition Database.
- Provide the required inputs to nutrition unit for routine reports, and any other report as required.
Job Requirment
- Advanced University degree in Public Health Nutrition, Nutrition, Food Technology, or medicine.
- Or First University degree with additional specialized training and additional two year of most related professional work experience.
- At least one year of postgraduate professional experience in planning, designing and implementation of nutrition, public health programs with government, national or international NGOs.
- Experience conducting nutritional assessments, nutrition data analysis and report writing.
- Experience working in both emergencies and development contexts.
- Has gained experience in implementing technical programs (i.e. nutrition, etc.).
- Has implemented programmes and provided input into designing operations.
- Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions.
- Good oral and written languages skills in English, Dari and Pashto.
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Submission Guideline
- This vacancy announcement is for Afghan nationals only and WFP encourages especially Afghan females and Afghans with disabilities to apply.
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Country
Afghanistan
City
Herat
