Programme Policy Officer NOB at World Food Programme

JOB PURPOSE

• This position provides technical guidance and operational support to RB and Country Office (CO) Programme teams on strategic, technical, and business process issues as well as risks related to CP management. WFP focuses on being a better strategic and operational partner to its CP/NGO stakeholders, through roll out of a regional strategy and new digital platforms. The RB plays a key role in facilitating these changes at the CO level.   This assignment is in the Regional Bureau ISPD team and reports to the Team Lead as well as the HQ NGO unit.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Establish a regional strategy and regional network to support improved strategic engagement with CPs.
• Enable COs to strengthen the capacities of national NGOs, in alignment with the Grand Bargain. 
• Advice COs on streamlined FLA processes, including the establishment of multiyear or longer-term field level agreements (FLAs), from partnership scoping and selection to budget monitoring, and timely invoice payments.
• Provide guidance to COs on the implementation of capacity assessments, spot-checks, and onboarding/orientation of CPs.
• Guide COs on the development of emerging models, i.e., Tripartite partnerships with government, academia, consortium within countries, etc.
• Arrange and host annual regional workshops.
• Emergency preparedness through CP rostering. 
• Coordination role across different policy agenda would be essential task, in context of the development of new/updated corporate policies potentially affecting CP management area.  
• Liaise with HQ NGO Unit for mutual information sharing and discussing the relevant issues. 
• Building general CP management capacity of COs through delivering trainings/webinars as needed. 
• Any other duties as required

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education:   Advanced University degree relevant to international development assistance, or First University Degree with additional years of related work experience.
• Experience:  3+ years of relevant professional experience related to establishing partnerships and overseeing budgets, preferably in government institutions, with a UN agency, or NGO in the region. 

Knowledge & Skills:    

• Proven abilities in strategy setting and inter-agency negotiations.
• Project Management and Contract Management.
• Excellent communication (written/oral/presentation) and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrates high moral integrity and proven capacity to take initiative, show discretion and autonomy.
• Strong planning and time management, with a structured results-oriented approach and quality monitoring and reporting.
• Client focused and builds strong relationships to improve processes and support the strengthening of CO CP Mgmt. function.
• Knowledge of the UN system or NGO space is an asset.