Programme Associate – Relief, Transition and Resilience (G6), Dadaab

THE ROLE

This position will support the implementation of WFP’s food assistance programmes in Dadaab refugee hosting area while contributing to the refugee-host communities transition agenda. Responsibilities include technical work of the planning, implementation and coordination of project specific activities that require thorough understanding of Programme/project context, issues, and ability to apply a range of guidelines/practices.

This position is based in Dadaab and reports to Head of Programmes.      

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive)

Under the direct supervision of Head of Programmes, and overall supervision of the Head of Area Office East, the Programme Associate is responsible for the following duties:

• Provide technical support and assist in the development and implementation of various food assistance and resilience activities and processes. The food assistance activities will include among others, in-kind food distribution, cash-based transfers, school meals and nutrition interventions while resilience building actions will include, among others, productive livelihood asset creation, harvest and post-harvest handling and management, market access and financial inclusion. Implementation of these activities will support alignment with wider Programme policies and guidelines while ensuring that deadlines and targets are met.
• Provide specialized project management support to food and nutrition assistance and resilience programmes to ensure that the various activities are performed within the established targets following WFP’s policies and procedures.
• Contribute to effective discussions on refugee transition agenda including roll out of differentiated assistance approaches.
• Prepare a range of food assistance and resilience building project reports and data analysis and highlight trends/issues ensuring deliverables adhere to corporate standards and quality control.
• Support the capacity building of WFP staff, cooperating partners and stakeholders on food, nutrition assistance as well resilience programming in the within Dadaab.
• Oversee and/or review the work of camp of settlement-based staff members, providing practical advice and guidance, to contribute to delivering objectives to agreed standards and deadlines.
• Ensure that data and information on food system projects presented to the stakeholders is accurate, consistent, and aligned with WFP's communication protocol.
• Undertake any other duty as assigned by the Head of Programme or Head of Area Office.

DELIVERABLES

• Effectively follows implementation of the project activities and outputs to ensure that deliverables are met on time.
• Provides technical support to ensure quality work.
• Communicates clearly and effectively with on the ground stakeholders and internal WFP colleagues.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Education: A university degree in Agriculture Education and Extension, Agriculture Agribusiness, Agronomy, Food Nutrition and Dietetics, Community and Rural development, Sociology, Economics, Food Security, Animal Science/ Animal Production, Range Management, or other field relevant to international development assistance.
• Experience: A minimum of 6 years progressive work experience in food nutrition, food security/ agriculture/ environment and market systems development.

Knowledge and Skills

• Experience in implementing community-based food and nutrition and livelihood projects in both refugees and non-refugees set ups.
• Conversant with participatory community engagement approaches such as participatory rural appraisal, participatory learning and action, community managed disaster risk reduction.
• Deep understanding of project cycle management (PCM) including design, planning, implementation, monitoring and adaptation.
• Has a deep understanding on how to monitor technical activities related to food and nutrition assistance, market system functionality and resilience building initiatives.
• Broader understanding of cross cutting issues in humanitarian and development programming such as conflict sensitive programming, nutrition sensitive programming and gender and youth sensitive programming.
• Experience working with organizations that have medium to large food and nutrition assistance/ security, livelihoods, and agriculture portfolio and longer-term projects.

Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English is required.