Programme Policy Officer

2 weeks ago

مصر, Egypt World Food Programme Full time

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**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.

**BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT**:
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading Humanitarian Organization fighting hunger and changing lives worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies, and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. In Egypt, WFP is committed to supporting the Government’s priorities towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. WFP’s current five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2023-2028 is designed to fully support Egypt’s Vision 2030 and ensure food and nutrition security for all Egyptians.

**The CSP focuses on three interrelated thematic areas**:

- Support the crisis-affected populations through food assistance and resilience building;
- Improve the resilience of vulnerable Egyptian populations especially in Haya Kareema villages;
- Provide capacity strengthening to the Government and support South-South cooperation between Egypt and neighboring countries.

WFP Egypt is currently implementing a number of resilience building climate-smart interventions in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation in about 160 villages and is planning to expand this programme to more than 400 additional villages mostly in Upper Egypt within the Haya Kareema Presidential Initiative.
The Incumbent would therefore be expected to provide leadership to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs especially as they pertain to integrated, climate-adaptative agriculture and the resilience building of rural and Bedouin communities in Egypt.
The Incumbent would serve as the programme manager for climate-adaptive rural development programmes in the Country Office leading a team for the design, management, coordination, implementation, and review of all Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience Building initiatives in the WFP Egypt Country Office.

**ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT**:
Job holders are likely to manage a moderate portfolio of activities that may include contribution to and/or direct management of programmes in COs of moderate complexity, or contribution to policy formulation and provision of technical advice at RB or HQ level for a defined area of expertise. Job holders operate with considerable independence in their specialities and may manage a substantial team of junior professional and support staff

**STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS**:
**Education**:
Advanced University degree in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Environmental Science, Engineering, Food Science, Social Sciences or other field related to climate change adaptation and/or international development or First University Degree with additional years of related work experience preferably with the UN or donor-funded programmes.

**Language**:
National Professional: Fluency (level C) in English & Arabic languages

**JOB PURPOSE**:
To design and manage programmes of moderate size or complexity that effectively meet food assistance needs, or contribute to policy formulation and/or provide technical advice or oversight on programme strategy and implementation.

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)**:
**Reporting directly to the Head of Programme and with the overall guidance of the WFP Egypt Deputy Country Director, the incumbent is expected to perform the following duties and responsibilities**:
1.Contribute to the formulation of WFP-wide climate-adaptive rural development programme policies in line with both organizational strategy and the practical realities of operating in the field; or translate programme policy into Country level practices. Developing programme guidance and implementation modalities and operations, to ensure a clear and strong connection between HQ and field operations.
2. Design and manage the implementation of Programme Policy operations on rural development issues ensuring that operations are consistent with WFP policies, Executive Board decisions, and other relevant guidance.
3. Provide technical advice or mobilize technical expertise on programme and policy issues including assessment and analysis, the choice of objectives, activities, transfer modalities and appropriate food products, the deployment and testing of innovative approaches and the development of strategies to support government efforts to reduce hunger and malnutrition.
4.Reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and proposes corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; identifies and tracks follow-up actions.
5. Advice counterparts in the Government of Egypt and other partners in

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