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TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Note: Algerian nationals/citizens are eligible to apply for this vacancy. This vacancy announcement will also be used to build a roster of prequalified applicants for future opportunities within same job profile.

“For the vacancy, candidates are expected to be present at the duty station. All applicants should ensure they are prepared, both physically and emotionally, to effectively perform in the conditions of Tindouf as the duty station”

ABOUT WFP

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.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

Since 2019, WFP’s Algeria country office was implementing its Interim Country Strategic Plan (2019–2024) which has two strategic outcomes and four activities that contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2, achieving Zero Hunger.
The strategic outcomes are derived from stakeholder consultations and have the aim of ensuring the food security and nutrition of the Sahrawi refugees, in collaboration with WFP’s partners.
In this interim country strategic plan, consideration of nutrition issues will be systematically mainstreamed into all WFP interventions. General food assistance will be designed to provide as nutritious and diverse food basket as possible. School feeding activities will be nutrition-sensitive and gender-responsive to address nutrition concerns. A new approach will be taken to resilience building, supporting institutional and individual capacity strengthening through various complementary livelihood activities, and enhancing synergies and cross-fertilization among activities and with partners’ operations.
Under strategic outcome 1, WFP will meet basic food needs in the camps through the provision of unconditional food assistance, nutrition-sensitive school feeding and complementary livelihood activities. Strategic outcome 2 has the aim of improving the nutrition status of targeted, vulnerable camp residents through the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls, children aged from 6 to 59 months, girls and boys and the prevention of malnutrition in pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls. WFP will address malnutrition and contribute to anemia reduction by improving prevention and treatment, raising awareness of good nutrition and ensuring that all of its interventions are nutrition sensitive. Efforts will be made to revitalize discussion and coordination of nutrition activities with stakeholders.
WFP will seek to diversify its complementary activities, reaching more households by scaling up existing projects and exploring new livelihood opportunities, based on a mapping exercise and community based participatory planning to identify resilience opportunities. Complementarity and synergies with partners’ activities will be explored throughout the implementation of the interim country strategic plan. An emerging new resilience approach will foster improved food security and nutrition for refugees, in partnership with the camp management (including the national union of Sahrawi women and youth groups) and other actors including United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations.

JOB PURPOSE

Under the Resilience Unit, provide support to policy and nutrition sensitive integrated resilience programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Under the Head of Programme supervision and in close collaboration and coordination with the Resilience Unit team and other WFP units, the staff will be responsible of the following duties:

1. Provide effective expert support and technical analysis to policy and program activities that effectively address food assistance needs.
2. Implement and scale-up resilience activities at household level based on community based participatory approach and promote innovation and new way of thinking:
   • Develop WFP Tindouf strategy and resilience programme targeting Sahrawi refugee population to inform the next Interim Country Strategic Plan (ICSP).
   • Ensure integration of resilience activities with other WFP activities (nutrition, school feeding, food assistance) to enhance achievements and impacts on nutrition and food security.
   • Work in close collaboration with the RAM/M&E Unit to understand context, conduct needs analysis, define targeting criteria and design tailored programmes to refugee population
   • Conduct meetings with vulnerable refugees to understand their vision for resilience building and develop resilience building plan.
   • Scale-up family gardens and the use of waterboxes and growboxes at household level and for school gardens
   • Innovate livelihood and resilience activities by focusing on men, women, and young people to increase their knowledge and awareness of economic empowerment and participation in project design, implementation, and decision-making.
   • Develop concept papers and guidelines to assist WFP and partner staff in understanding programming and approaches to livelihoods and resilience building.
3. Prepare status and progress reports, document lessons learned in ensuring project implementation, and effectively track progress and results with the donor and other stakeholders through reports and other documentation to enhance transparency, accountability and generate evidence.
   • Provide technical assistance and support for the implementation of the CP action plan.
   • Review achievements, identify challenges and propose appropriate actions
   • Assist in the production of educational materials and project fact sheets.
   • Carry out budget reviews during the project and, if necessary, in collaboration with the units concerned, in order to adjust budget planning. (Extension in time, recruitment, cancelled activity…etc)
   • Regularly monitor complementary activities supported by WFP and the partner in the camps to verify achievements against the defined objectives and prepare reports that reflect the impact on the beneficiaries.
4. Ensure that the NGOs partnership management cycle under the resilience activity is implemented according to WFP standards and norms:
   • Ensure End-to-end Field Level Agreement (FLA) process management and compliance assurance.
   • Establish and implement Cooperating Partner (CP) ’s capacity building based on Cooperating Partners ‘performance evaluation and risk assessment.
   • Conduct bilateral meetings with CP’s and regularly monitor complementary activities supported by WFP and the partner in the camps.
   • Ensure regular and timely FLA tracking based on required data and indicators.
   • Ensure quality and timely CP reports and payments.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (Continue…)

1. Liaise and coordinate with internal and external counterparts; authorities, agencies, partners, and other stakeholders involved in livelihoods and resilience projects and ensure effective collaboration for better monitoring of activities and highlight potential risks to the project’s delivery.
   • Participate in various coordination meetings (sector meetings and platforms).
   • Represent WFP in internal/external working meetings on resilience/Livelihood activities or topics related to program interventions.
   • Seek complementarity and synergy with other resilience actors to avoid duplication and diversify beneficiaries’ sources of income to make them self-reliance by initiating the 5W dashboard.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

Advanced university degree in International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition, Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences or other field relevant to international development assistance, or first university degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.

Experience:

Minimum one year of postgraduate professional experiences in the field of food security, nutrition and integrated resilience programming in refugee context

Knowledge & Skills:

• Data analysis and reporting
• Programme management
• Partnership management
• Community based-participatory planning

Language:

Fluency in both spoken and written communication in Arabic and English is a requirement. Proficiency in French at an intermediate level is expected, and knowledge of Spanish is considered an asset.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Saturday, 16 September 2023 (11:59 PM Algeria Standard Time).

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WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment

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.