Programme Associate (AMS & Livelihood) job at World Food Programme (WFP)

ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

WHY JOIN WFP?

WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

This job is found at Field Office and reports to the Head of Field Office, with technical supervision from the Programme Policy Officer (Livelihoods and AMS) based at the Area Office. The job holder is expected to coordinate and provide technical oversight in the implementation of Livelihood, Agriculture and Market Support programs within the area of operation, ensure provision of effective coordination with the partners, stakeholders for holistic and robust of policy and programme activities delivery that effectively facilitate strengthening food systems, promote increased value chain engagement for beneficiaries geared towards ensuring creation of resilience and self-reliance.

To provide effective specialized and technical support and analysis to policy and programme activity implementation that effectively meet food systems goals.

• Provide overall technical guidance, management, and oversight to the cooperating partners during the implementation of Livelihoods and AMS interventions within the operational area.
• Ensure efficient and effective resource utilization of programme resources in the office and by Cooperating Partners (CPs) through monitoring pre-committed funds, expenditures vis-à-vis costed annual operational plans.
• Coordinate with the Area Office and Kampala to select, monitor, build capacity and assess the performance of CPs.
• Evaluate the performance of partners engaged in delivery of WFP programmes including utilization of resources, achievement of planned targets and Key Performance Indicators.
• Support the implementation and linkages to WFPs policy on local and regional food procurement (LRFPP) towards contributing to building resilient food systems.
• Ensure Smallholder Farmers (SHFs), Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), and Farmer Organizations participate, contribute, and benefit from economic opportunities in improved agri-food market systems.
• Plan and coordinate quarterly joint stakeholder program activity monitoring and feedback sessions.
• Coordinate market facilitation activities at the Field Office in liaison with supply chain
• Undertake farmer organization, MSE, farmer group engagement and sensitization on Livelihood and AMS programming including on targeting, farmer selection criteria, robust enterprise selection, development and diversification, post-harvest management strengthening, job creation for the youth and increase market linkage access among others.
• Support implementation of initiatives to strengthen programmatic SOP use and transition into graduation off programme for groups, MSEs and farmer organizations.
• Manage Field Level Agreements (FLAs) for the cooperating partners ensuring that the set targets are achieved.
• Review partner financial and narrative reports to ensure cooperating partner invoices are aligned to implemented activities and payment are on time.
• Conduct review meetings with partners and stakeholders to track progress of implementation, identify gaps, develop and track implementation of improvement plans for programme implementation.
• Support the cooperating partner during the beneficiary selection, profiling exercises and ensure that the right beneficiaries are identified as per the selection criteria.
• Guide the office and cooperating partner to ensure appropriate linkages are established with key stakeholders for farmers to access services such as agricultural inputs, off-taking markets, access to credit, post-harvest management equipment, agriculture insurance and extension services among others.
• Establish strategic partnerships with the district local government, OPM, UN agencies, other development partners and build synergies with private sector partners to facilitate sustainable programme implementation.
• Liaise with internal and external counterparts to ensure effective collaboration, monitor ongoing projects, identify potential risks, develop and track implementation of mitigation plans.
• Support cooperating partner to identify and promote new tools, methods, and solutions to mitigate production and post-harvest losses to enhance food quality and increase production yields among farming communities and food processing agribusinesses.
• Conduct mid-term and end of year partner evaluation based on the partners implementation.
• Work with the Area Office Monitoring and Evaluation Officer to support the cooperating partner on programme implementation tracking, data collection, entry, analysis and reporting using the WFP database to inform programming.
• Collaborate with the communications unit to support the documentation of program achievements and lessons learnt.
• Ensure all data related to farmer institutional development is collected, entered to corporate databases, and analyzed for decision making.
• Undertake field visits as required to assess the Food System activity implementation processes, facilitation, and technical soundness of programme operations, generate data for evidence-based decisions and produce actionable report.
• Receive, review, consolidate and submit weekly, monthly, and quarterly progress reports highlighting progress of the program implementation.
• Focal point for operational inquiries within the field vis-a-vis Area or Country office and partners.
• Support donor mission visits and field technical backstopping organized by Area Office and Country Office team.
• Ensure integrated programming internally with WFP programs such as Social Protection, Nutrition, Cash Based Transfer (CBT) and ex