Le Programme alimentaire mondial recrute 01 spécialiste de la création d’actifs

Job description

In this position, you will have to:

Lead project delivery and operational support (focusing on Food Assistance for Assets – FFA) to the Gulf of Guinea countries, and Sahel countries as needed. Streamline integrated resilience into coastal country operations.
Provide support to coastal countries in the design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of country programmes, with a focus on promoting best practices, advocacy & learning.
Support WFP Programming with a particular view to asset creation, building resilience, and natural resource management.
Support to WFP Country Offices in developing project proposals (technical aspects, activity selection and planning, timelines and budgets); Demand-driven support on introduction of new FFA technologies and innovations, as well as consolidation and perfection of existing capacities and skills.
Support and participate in the development and review of Country Strategic Plans and a Sub-Regional Strategy for coastal countries.
Support the adoption of innovative solutions for low-cost infrastructure and approaches; Integrate and streamline forestry and agroforestry into coastal country’s resilience packages, to support food security and nutrition.
Support project implementation and coordination in Country Offices in implementation of integrated resilience projects; Institutional development support to strengthen Country Offices structures to sustain scale up dynamics.
Assist in advocacy and fundraising efforts to scale up, in general, the resilience and livelihoods activities in the region, and in coastal countries, in particular, the support functions of Resilience & Livelihood Unit to Country Offices.
In priority countries, assist the development of specific proposals, and support to initiatives that strengthen linkages with gender, nutrition, value chains), etc.
Support Country Offices in the development of project proposals in the areas of integrated resilience programmes, urban resilience, etc.
Participate and carry out online and on-the job FFA and Resilience trainings on specific innovations.
Perform other related duties as required.

This position reports to the Regional Resilience and Livelihoods Officer and will be part of the Resilience and Livelihoods Unit. The future incumbent will work in close collaboration with Programme Units in the Dakar Regional Bureau and WFP Headquarters. Travel within the Western Africa region may be required up to 30% of working time.

Job requirements

Education: Bachelor or Master’s degree in one or more of the following disciplines: Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Environmental Studies, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Experience: At least 08 years of relevant work experience in Natural Resource Management, Rural Development, Integrated Resilience for Food Security and Nutrition. Exposure to and experience with soil conservation, water works and infrastructure implementation, watershed management and planning, participatory approaches and community-led change projects, food security, nutrition programmes and safety nets desirable. Combination of threefold professional experience: 1) Humid Tropics and Savanah agroecologies, 2) Rural infrastructure works and technologies, and 3) integrated resilience approaches. Professional experience in savanah and humid tropics agroecologies, in the areas of forestry and agro-forestry. Academic and/or professional experience outside of Western Africa (Eastern or Southern Africa, or Asia) would be an asset.

Knowledge & Skills:

Proficiency in Windows, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and experience in using geographic information systems is an advantage.
Good analytical skills; resourcefulness, initiative, maturity of judgement, tact, negotiating skills; ability to communicate clearly both orally and in writing; ability to work in a team, and establish effective working relations with persons of different national and cultural backgrounds.
Ability to cope with situations which may threaten health or safety; flexibility in accepting work assignments outside normal desk description. Ability to deal patiently and tactfully with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.

Language: Fluency (level C) in english and Basic (level A) in French.

Closing date: 14 July 2022, midnight (Dakar Time)

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