WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

This post is open to Cambodian Nationality only.

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

WFP’s mission is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 as per Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2. It works to ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Through the Country Strategic Plan 2019-23 (CSP), WFP Cambodia is contributing to achieving Zero Hunger through a combination of direct implementation and systems capacity strengthening at national sub-national level. Through the CSP, WFP promotes access to nutritious diets through home grown school feeding and improving climate smart food production and transformation capacities of small holder farming communities, whilst strengthening standards and guidelines for food transformation to satisfy the increasing demand for nutritious processed and convenient foods. WFP supports national and subnational disaster and climate change risk management and to the national strategic direction and coordination on food security, nutrition and social protection through enhanced information systems, knowledge management, and public-private and south-south partnerships. WFP also responds to the acute food security and early recovery needs of vulnerable women, men, girls and boys impacted by recurrent disasters.

Announcement Positions

Programme Policy Officer – School Feeding Operations, NOA

• Location:Phnom Penh
• Schedule:Full-time
• Salary:N/A

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT:

Central to its Cambodia programme, WFP has been working with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) to implement school feeding since 1999 through the provision of hot, nutritious meals in schools and cash/food scholarships to vulnerable primary and pre-primary school children. From 1999 to 2021, this social assistance programme has benefited over two million school children with much work already done to transition school feeding to a nationally managed and funded programme. The programme currently reaches over 300,000 children in Cambodia and has an increasing focus on supporting the scale up of the government’s school feeding programme.

WFP is seeking to recruit a dynamic and experienced National Programme Policy Officer for School Feeding Operations to play a key role in ensuring its school feeding programme is effective, efficient and inclusive. This position will be based in WFP’s Country Office (CO) as part of WFP’s school feeding team – whilst working across units including programme, monitoring and evaluation, nutrition, reporting and communication – as well as engaging regularly with WFP’s government and NGO partners.

Type of Contract: Fixed Term Appointment

Grade: NO – A

Duty Station: WFP Country Office

Reporting Line: This position reports to WFP’s School Feeding Operations Lead, working closely across teams including field operations, monitoring and evaluation, nutrition, logistics, communications and partnerships.

Duties

• KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):
• Contribute towards the development of a limited number of projects, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider programme policies and guidance.
• Provide project management support to specific and defined programmes and projects of small to moderate size that are relatively straight forward in nature, ensuring a coordinated approach with wider programmes that complies with WFP standards and procedures.
• Follow data gathering and monitoring systems ensuring that rigorous quality standards are maintained.
• Research and analyse policy and operational issues to support senior colleagues in the development of policies, programmes and activities.
• Contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on programmes and activities that enable informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
• Liaise with internal counterparts to ensure effective collaboration, monitor ongoing projects.
• Support the identification, development and management of potential partnerships to collaborative working leading to improved food assistance packages.
• Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government to prepare for and respond to food assistance needs, e.g., through project management support of learning initiatives.
• Provide guidance to support staff, acting as a point of referral and assisting them with analysis and queries.
• Other as required.
• OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS:
• Provide technical support to WFP staff, Government counterpart and NGO partners and closely work with them to plan, implement and track progress against objectives to ensure programme targets are on track, all stages of the project cycle are compliant with donor and WFP requirements, and ensuring achievement as of planned results.
• Prepare timely reports and substantial data analysis for the projects from both government and NGO partners, which includes initial draft operational reports, review and provide feedback to cooperating partners, to ensure deliverables adhere to agreed standards.
• Contribute to the preparation of key project documents, (including concept notes of project activities, project proposals, progress reports and technical reports) and support coordination and representation of the programme -including through project meetings, presentations to external and internal partners, and other relevant to advocacy for further programme investment.
• Support the development and roll out of a capacity strengthening strategy for the national HGSF programme, including capacity strengthening mechanisms, tools and a monitoring and evaluation framework linked to all school-based food and nutrition programmes.
• Coordinate/collaborate with MoEYS, WFP, UN and NGO partners to identify and prioritise capacity strengthening activities to be implemented at national and sub-national level based on the overall strategy, context, budgets and feasibility.
• Support programme learning and accountability including ensuring that findings and recommendations of evaluations, studies and audits are acted up to enhance school feeding processes and results.
• Ensure adequate reflection and integration of relevant gender considerations in all reporting and knowledge management activities.
• Perform other tasks as required.
• 4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES:
• Purpose
• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
• Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.
• People
• Look for ways to strengthen people’s skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
• Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.
• Performance
• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
• Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.
• Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
• Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.
• Partnership
• Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
• Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
• Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
• Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.
• FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES:
• Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance: Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design.
• Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher): Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development.
• Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.): Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring.
• Emergency Programming: Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes.
• Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government: Develops thorough recommendations using multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition security programmes.

Requirements

• STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• Education: Advanced University degree in International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition/Health, Education, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences or other field relevant to international development assistance.
• Language: Fluency (level C) in English.
• DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with increasing level of responsibility.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of project management, including design, planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting processes and procedures gained through technical training and/or work experiences.
• A solid understanding of development processes and implementing programmes related to food security and nutrition, education and/or social protection.
• Demonstrated experience in writing reports, proposals and other related documents for internal and external audiences.
• Experience in training and coaching teams.
• Experience with monitoring and evaluation and learning systems, tools and processes.
• Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions.
• Experience utilizing computers, including Microsoft Office package (e.g., Word, Excel) and other standard software packages and systems.

Application Information

Female applicants and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

WFP is committed to an inclusive working environment which values diversity and has zero tolerance for discrimination, harassment and abuse of any kind.

• WFP recognizes the positive potential of flexible working arrangements to enable staff members the opportunity to select and alter their work schedules to better fit personal needs and help balance work, personal, and family responsibilities whenever operationally possible.
• WFP is committed to gender equality and parity (50% women and 50% men) and to diversity more generally, among employees across all grades, functions and contract modalities.
• WFP offers an attractive salary and other benefits, including annual leave, parental leave and health insurance for staff and eligible dependents.
• WFP Work Environment: WFP is committed to ensuring that all its workplaces are free from abuse, offensive behaviour, harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. WFP does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS and disability status. WFP is also committed to promoting a work culture in which every employee understands, and is able to carry out, his/her personal responsibilities for maintaining the dignity of work colleagues. WFP seeks to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women. We believe our mission of fighting global hunger worldwide can only be achieved if women, men, girls and boys are offered equal opportunities in terms of access to resources and services, and participation in decision making roles.

HOW TO APPLY

• Create an account on the WFP Career Website
• Under Filter By “Country”, type “Cambodia” and select the position you want to apply to.

DEADLINE OF APPLICATION

• The vacancy will be closed onthe closing date at 17:00 GMT+7