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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
Job holder will work under the supervision of Strategic Outcome Manager (SO 3), receiving guidance and regular feedback from Head of Programme and senior management on work performed. The incumbent will work in coordination with Programme Policy Officers in Country Office, Sub-Offices staff and Field Coordinators (Programme Associates) involved in livelihoods, resilience, climate change adaptation, agribusiness, rural finance and market linkage related interventions.
JOB PURPOSE
To provide support to policy and programme activities that effectively meet WFP Nepal Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2019-2023 operation needs.
Background:
WFP Nepal’s Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2019-2023 has been approved by the WFP Executive Board in its session of November 2019 and it has become effective from 1 January 2019. It aims to contribute to five Strategic Outcomes (SOs) that are aligned to five Strategic Results of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for Development). A total of eight Activities are planned to be implemented to achieve the contributions to the five SOs.
The five Strategic Outcomes (SO) are:
SO 1: affected populations in Nepal have timely access to adequate food and nutrition during and in the aftermath of natural disasters and/or other shocks.
SO 2: Food Insecure people in targeted areas have improved nutrition throughout the key stages of the life-cycle by 2025.
SO 3: Vulnerable communities in remote, food-insecure areas of Nepal have improved food security and resilience to climate and other shocks by 2030.
SO 4: The Government of Nepal has strengthened capabilities to provide essential food security services and respond to crises by 2023.
SO 5: Government efforts towards achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 are supported by inclusive and coherent policy frameworks across all spheres of government by 2023.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
The Programme Policy Officer (Livelihoods, Agribusiness and Market linkage) will be directly supervised by the Strategic Outcome Manager (SO 3). S/he will ensure that WFP ongoing and upcoming programme/projects activities under CSP (2019-2023) contributing to resilient livelihoods, sustainable and market linkage of smallholder farmers are implemented effective and efficiently by achieving planned outcomes/outcomes against approved annual perfromance and work plan are in consistent with corporate WFP policies and strategies. The key responsiblities include:
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General Requirements:
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Advanced university degree (Masters) in a relevant discipline: agricultural economics, economics, agribusiness, business, or related field, or First University Degree with more than seven years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.
Language: Excellent oral and written proficiency in English and Nepali.
OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS
Knowledge & Skills:
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
Only the candidates meeting the above requirements are requested to submit an online application by 21 November 2019.
To apply, please visit http://www1.wfp.org/careers/job-openings
External link : Programme Policy Officer
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Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply
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