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Career Opportunities: Business Support Associate
Duty station: Monrovia, Liberia
Vacancy Announcement n°: 833578
Job Title: Business Support Associate
Job Grade: G6
Type of Contract: Fixed Term
Post holder reports to: Country Director
➡️ Unit / Division: Administration
Duty Station: Monrovia, Liberia
➡️ Duration: 1 year (Renewable based on funding & Operational need)
⏰ Closing date: 27 June 2024, midnight (Liberia Time)
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.
To learn more about WFP, visit our website and follow us on social media to keep up with our latest news: LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter.
Background and Purpose of the Assignment
The current five-year development portfolio of WFP Liberia includes social protection safety nets, such as home-grown school feeding, livelihood and capacity strengthening support through its Food Assistance projects, stimulating local food production and support the Government in enhancing the efficiency of food value chains in Liberia. Including emergency preparedness and response.
WFP is leveraging school feeding with a solid HGSF component to deliver climate-smart livelihood support activities that provide smallholder farmers, particularly rural women, with reliable and sustainable markets. This includes strengthening vulnerable smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate-related and other recurrent shocks through the creation or regeneration of productive community assets.
WFP aims to strengthen food and nutrition security through school feeding, and social protection measures and assists in strengthening the national capacity of Liberia to own and implement hunger solutions.
To coordinate and control a full range of business support services for the front office and the office of the Country Director and ensure that services are delivered effectively.
What will you do in this position?
Why work with us?
➡️ Meaningful and impactful careers:
Our day-to-day work makes a difference in the lives of the people we serve
➡️ Continuous learning and training:
We provide learning tools for our staff to continually develop their careers
➡️ Multicultural and stimulating work environment:
We encourage gender and cultural diversity to make our teams stronger
Join us to make a difference in Liberia!!
To join us in saving lives, changing lives, you will have for…
Education:
Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area.
Experience & Knowledge:
Language: Fluency (level C) in English language.
Before you apply…
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 an inclusive work environment in which diversity is valued and where no form of discrimination is tolerated. We aim to achieve parity in our teams in Liberia.
Qualified female applicants and individuals with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.
All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.
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