Senior Programme Associate (School Feeding) Full-Time

• Provide specialized expertise and contribute towards the development of project activities, plans and processes within the specific technical area of work ensuring alignment with wider programme policies and guidelines;
• Provide efficient coordination and specialized project management support to a range of specific and/or defined programmes to ensure that the various activities are performed within the established targets following WFP’s policies and procedures;
• Within the specific area of responsibility, prepare a variety of elaborated reports and substantial data analysis and make recommendations to supervisors, ensuring deliverables adhere to corporate standards and quality control;
• Lead and ensure accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work and consistency of information presented to stakeholders;
• Coordinate and liaise with internal counterparts on a range of complex matters to enable effective collaboration, implementation and monitoring of ongoing project activities;
• Foster relationships and support partnership-building with local partners, agencies, NGOs and government institutions to perform accurate food security analyses and to ensure efficient delivery of food assistance;
• Support the capacity building of WFP staff, cooperating partners and national government;
• Act as an escalation point for complex query resolution on all matters within the area of responsibility;
• Manage a team of support staff, providing advice, guidance and training, to ensure individual and team objectives are delivered to agreed standards and deadlines;
• Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly respond and deploy needed resources to affected areas at the onset of the crisis.

Other Specific Job requirements

Provide expertise and support on policy dialogue, technical assistance and country capacity strengthening (CCS):

• Coordination and secretariat for the School Feeding Task Force;
• Technical Assistance to PRONAE;
• Country Capacity Strengthening strategy;

Support partnerships and fundraising:

• Proposal preparation;
• Participation in policy meetings;
• Inputs to key policy documents;
• Communications with partners, donors and beneficiaries;
• Lead on reports and publications;
• Lead on communications;
• Lead on knowledge management.

Responsibilities