Programme Associate - Production and Post-Harvest Management Service at World Food Programme (WFP)

Position: Programme Associate - Production and Post-Harvest Management Service

Application Deadline: July, 16/2023

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.

In 2020 WFP CO Ethiopia launched its Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2020-2025. The five-year country strategic plan is based on WFP’s recognized strengths and on strong strategic and operational partnerships with the Government, private sector entities, non-governmental organizations and other United Nations agencies. While the bulk of operations continues to address the immediate short-term needs of refugees, internally displaced persons and other food-insecure and undernourished people, there is a focus on expansion and intensification of climate change adaptation, resilience and livelihood diversification initiatives also linked to the humanitarian-development–peace nexus. WFP’s mission of saving and changing lives is being realised through the implementation of broad food security strategies that aim to:

• Address the immediate basic food and nutrition needs of shock-affected populations in targeted areas

• Increase resilience to shocks for vulnerable and food-insecure populations, including primary school children, smallholder farmers and pastoralists, chronically food-insecure people in rural and urban areas, and refugee and host community households

• Prevent all forms of malnutrition by increasing access to and improving the consumption of high-quality, nutrient-dense foods for nutritionally vulnerable populations in targeted areas

• provide capacity strengthening to the government institutions, the private sector and local non-governmental organizations in promoting increased agriculture production and productivity

Job Purpose

• This job is based in the Afar Regional State, Semera Sub-Office. The job holder will report to a Programme and Policy Officer and will be receiving guidance and regular feedback on work performed. He/she will focus on production and post-harvest-related interventions. He/she will provide support to livelihood and resilience-building programmes and activities to contribute to the well-being of WFP beneficiaries.

Key Accountabilities (not all-inclusive)

• Contribute to the development and design of livelihood and resilience-building projects in the Afar Region, ensuring the integration and coordination of wider programmes, and alignment with relevant policies and guidance.

• Contribute to planning, implementation and scale-up of the integrated resilience approaches, including but not limited to crop agriculture, post-harvest loss handling and climate risk management.

• Support the adoption and utilization of appropriate post-harvest technologies by farmers and market actors to increase the safety, quality and marketability of commodities grown and aggregated.

• Support the establishment of various local partnership forums to facilitate learning and scaling up of good practices relevant to WFP for building/ improving livelihoods and resilience.

• Support knowledge generation and learning from WFP’s experience in Afar Region on integrating the programmes for resilience-building and increasing resource efficiency to be applied in other target areas.

• Provide operational support on tailored services and information that includes an extension to the participating farmers that includes model farmers.

Qualifications 

Education:

• University degree in Agriculture, Environmental Science, Natural Resource Management or another relevant field.

Experience:

• Six or more years with a Secondary school certificate or Four Years of postgraduate professional experience in programme-related functions of which significant experience (3 or more years) must be related to resilience building, agricultural value chains, (agro) pastoralists, etc., to achieve food security and/or nutrition objectives.

• Experience working with the government in implementing resilience, climate risk management and disaster risk reduction interventions.

• Experience in supporting and maintaining relationships with a variety of stakeholders: governments and/or humanitarian & development stakeholders, preferably related to livelihood programming.

Other Specific Job Requirements

• This section is optional to describe additional responsibilities & knowledge required for the specific job.

Desired Experiences For Entry Into The Role

• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.

• Resourcefulness, initiative, maturity of judgement.

• Ability to work in a team and to work effectively with people of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds.

• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with counterparts and staff within the office, host government, other UN agencies, private sector and NGOs/CSOs.

How to apply:

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