Programme Associate - Market Linkages and Financial Services Service at World Food Programme (WFP)

Position: Programme Associate - Market Linkages and Financial Services 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 market linkages and financial service provision

• Provide operational support on tailored services and information that includes extension and markets to the participating farmers and market actors that includes investors and Agro dealers.

• Provide training and establish community savings groups among participating farmers

• Support and facilitate access to affordable financing for the participating farmers from community savings groups and micro-finance institutions or any other financers according to needs such as procuring seeds, implements, and Post-Harvest Losses Management technologies.

• Support strengthening of capacities for Agro-dealers and contribute to establishing efficient private sector supply chains

• Support development of capacity needs assessment tools for identifying, assessing, and strengthening aggregator/Agro-dealer's performance.

Qualifications 

Education:

• University degree in Agricultural Economics, Economics, Development Studies, or other field relevant to international development.

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 livelihood interventions, market approaches and other related subjects.

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

Language:

• Fluency in both oral and written English is sufficient and knowledge of Afar language is an advantage.

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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