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Job Title: Programme Policy Officer – Social Protection
Grade: NOB
Type of contract: Fixed Term
Duration: 12 months
Duty Station: Suva, Fiji
Vacancy Number: 828330
Date of Publication: Thursday 13 July 2023
Deadline of Application: Saturday 29 July 2023
This vacancy announcement is for Nationals from CO Fiji.
WFP’s Pacific presence commenced in 2015 at the request of the Government of Fiji through a humanitarian operation providing emergency cash-based transfers (CBT) as a top up to the national social protection scheme. Subsequently WFP opened an office in Suva, Fiji focusing on preparedness and humanitarian coordination in the areas of logistics emergency telecommunications, food security and CBT. In 2021 and 2022, WFP conducted social protection scoping studies for Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu to understand the framework of social protection systems in five countries of the Pacific and identify programmatic opportunities for capacity strengthening of national counterparts and shock-responsive social protection.
COVID-19 has rapidly changed the picture of shock-responsive social protection in the Pacific. Some Pacific governments have turned to social protection as an instrument for mitigating the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19, thus increasing experience on using social assistance and social insurance to support people impacted by shocks.
WFP is currently building a programme portfolio in supporting social protection systems to be more responsive to shocks and building greater resilience to the impacts of climate change as it rapidly changes the face of food security and nutrition in the region. With an overarching priority on capacity strengthening of national systems and institutions, priority actions include, supporting access to parametric insurance for vulnerable groups, strengthening systems for cash based transfers whether pre- (as anticipatory action) or post-disaster, strengthening links to national disaster management authorities, information dissemination, early warning messaging, data management including database strengthening and targeting, risk and vulnerability assessments and strengthening transfer modalities.
In line with World Food Programme’s (WFP) Multi-Country Strategic Plan 2023-27 (MCSP) in the Pacific to support WFP’s work on strengthening national social protection systems to be more responsive to shocks and disasters, WFP is looking to onboard a Programme Coordinator for Social Protection based in its multi country office in Fiji.
The position will sit within the Pacific Multi Country Office programme/food security unit, reporting to the Head of Programme and working closely across units, including RAM (data team), logistics, Emergency Telecommunications as well as liaising closely with WFP staff and partners across the Pacific.
As part of the Pacific MCO Programme team, provide support to WFP’s programme in the pacific through operational leadership of WFP’s work on social protection in the Pacific region.
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Languages: Fluency in written and spoken English.
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To be considered, interested candidates are invited to apply via ( https://www.wfp.org/careers/job-openings). Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
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WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.